Insights

The ‘Purpose Paradigm’: Solution or Scam?

There is a clear and deepening frustration amongst some with the rhetoric of “purpose”. For those of us who believe in the power of business to do good, this is an opportunity for some honest self-reflection. But ultimately purpose is still worth believing in for three good reasons.
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Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019: Embedding Purpose into Business

We’re back at Saïd Business School on 11th July for our annual flagship event, Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2019, with the theme of embedding purpose authentically into business. Apply for a place, nominate yourself or a colleague to be one of our featured speakers, or become a Business Fights Poverty Ambassador. #BFPOXF19
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Multinationals Must Step up Game to Attract Top Business Students

Millennials at leading Swiss business schools say it will take more than a good salary to recruit and retain them. They want jobs with purpose, flexibility, and above all, the opportunity for impact.​
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Top Stories of 2018

With the New Year imminent, we thought we’d take a look at the most popular articles of the year. So here, based on the number of unique visits each article received and in reverse order, are the ten most popular stories published in 2018.
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How can we build the skills and knowledge that are vital to achieving sustainable development?

Education is at the heart of human progress and central to the Sustainable Development Goals. In our latest report, we explore how business can contribute more to education and training for sustainable development. Ultimately, the skills of the future are skills for sustainable development.
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Most Millennials Will Only Work For Purpose-Driven Firms

Today’s talent is attracted to companies whose values match their own. The most attractive companies to today’s talent are driven by purpose, according to London Business School (LBS) experts.
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Strategic Leadership Education for Inclusive Finance: A Discussion with Professors from the Harvard Business School

The HBS-Accion Program on Strategic Leadership in Inclusive Finance is a Harvard Business School Executive Education program developed with Center for Financial Inclusion. The program is led by faculty co-chairs Kash Rangan and Michael Chu.
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Yvette Torres-Rahman

What does it take to leave the security of full-time employment with a big business to setting up your own social business? This week Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership interviews our very own Business Fights Poverty co-founder Yvette Torres-Rahman and explores this very topic.
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Making Supply Chains Work for Women

BSR has launched a new video that sets out why and how companies should work to drive gender equality in global supply chains, with a focus on how companies can act, enable and influence change.
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Partnerships – All Talk and No Action?

​Does the cost and complexity of partnerships mean that most organisations should focus more, and collaborate less?
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Finance for All: Wedded to Fintech for Better or for Worse

A new report finds that technology is delivering considerable benefits to the financial inclusion market – but is also creating new risks. Are fintech and financial inclusion perfect partners? Will this marriage last?
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It’s Time to Move: 5 Ways We Can Upgrade Our SDG Navigation Systems

The state of the online infrastructure that underpins the sustainable development agenda today is lacking. Despite the momentum that’s been built, the standards, tools and systems required to facilitate individual and collective action are often missing. TPI and C-Change share a plan to collectively bring SDG infrastructure and online systems into the 21st century.
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The 6 Market Gaps the Finance Sector Must Address to Help Meet the SDGs

The need for more collective action to address the world’s most urgent challenges couldn’t be clearer. TPI and C-Change argue no sector has a more important role to play than finance in determining whether or not we are successful in addressing these challenges.
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5 Ways to Make Your Organisation a Great Sustainability Partner

Delivering the SDGs will require partnerships across business, governments, donors, the UN and NGOs at a scale that dwarfs current efforts of collaboration. TPI and C-Change explore how to design and build the new infrastructure that can systematically engage business and deliver the unprecedented level of collaboration required to achieve the SDGs.
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VIDEOS: Business Fights Poverty NYC 2018

Watch the videos of Business Fights Poverty NYC 2018. The event brought together 200 professionals from business and the development community during UN General Assembly Week to explore the theme of rethinking collaboration for the Sustainable Development Goals. The event was supported by Barclays and GSK.
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NEW REPORTS: Intrapreneurship, Partnerships, Refugees and Education

Business Fights Poverty has just released a series of reports that mark the culmination of co-creation processes with a range of partners and network members. Topics include Social Intrapreneurship, Transformational Partnerships, Supporting Refugees and Education for Sustainable Development. Download them for free.
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What More Should Supermarkets do to Respect Workers’ Rights in their Supply Chain?

Recently Oxfam has been calling on supermarkets to end the human suffering in their supply chains for the Behind the Barcodes campaign. Here Rachel Wilshaw goes into more detail on the practical actions supermarkets can take and why it’s so important.
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How Businesses Can Do Better for Girls

Due to their adaptability and responsiveness to changing market conditions, businesses can play an important role in empowering girls. But to do that, they need to engage girls directly in the design of their products and services.
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Businesses and Sustainability Standards Empowering Women in Supply Chains

Eleanor Radford of ISEAL, reflects on the women’s equity and inclusive business session at the recent Business Fights Poverty Oxford Conference. How do we can create change throughout the value chain? From getting a better representation of women on executive boards, to empowering women in the workplace.
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Investing in Africa: The UK announces its ambition to become the leading G7 investor in Africa

As the UK announces its ambition to become the leading G7 investor in Africa, Charlie Hare, Director of Global Operations at Business Fights Poverty, explores what this means for responsible businesses committed to scaling the quantity and quality of their investments.
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