Insights

How to Set up Global Partnerships for Impact and Success

Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty caught up with the team from Novo Nordisk to talk about their new partnership, which aims to help ensure access to diabetes medicines and healthcare, is accessible to all.
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Watch the Videos: Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2018

On 18 July, over 300 individuals from business, civil society and government came together for Business Fights Poverty Oxford 2018 to explore the themes of business, purpose and collaboration. Watch the videos of the plenary sessions.
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Surviving Sustainability – Working In CSR Without Burning Out

Solitaire Townsend Co-founder of Futerra, shares her 5 tips to survive, and even thrive, while working to change the world.
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Two Powerful Lessons from Mandela for Today’s Precarious World

Zahid Torres-Rahman, reflects on marking Mandela’s Centenary at the recent Business Fights Poverty Oxford conference and how now is the time to draw strength and inspiration from Mandela’s own example. In particular, the power of purpose and the power of people to make change happen.
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Want More Intrapreneurs in Your Organisation?  Create the Right Culture

An update on the findings so far, of the Intrapreneur Systems Challenge, launched earlier this year with the objective deepening our understanding of the features that need to be in place at a systemic level within an organisation to catalyse and support more innovative and impact-driven initiatives getting off the ground and reaching scale.
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Cultural Forces, Business and Peace: An Overview

This article introduces the second half of our special series on the relationship between music, business and peace. Providing an overview of working papers which explore the ways in which various cultural forces can lead toward peace. What can music do to enhance peace? Or other cultural forces such as sports, business, religion, law, and film?
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Sizakele Marutlulle

This week Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Sizakele Marutlulle, Founder and CEO of communications strategy company: Marutlulle +CO. Sizakele talks to us in anticipation of her keynote speaker role during the Business Fights Poverty flagship 2018 Oxford conference.
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Henriette Kolb

An Interview with Henriette Kolb, Head of the Gender Secretariat at the International Finance Corporation. Henriette takes listeners on a journey through the challenges of addressing gender inequality, before explaining why the IFC is focusing on balancing the roles of carers, creating access to finance for female entrepreneurs and understanding how women can get ahead in the sharing economy.
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Emeritus Professor David Grayson, CBE

Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Emeritus Professor David Grayson, CBE
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Daniella Foster

The tourism industry already accounts for 10.4% GDP and employs 313 million people; find out why Hilton is on a social and environmental mission to ensure its future. Katie Hyson, Director of Thought Leadership at Business Fights Poverty interviews Daniella Foster, Senior Director of Global Corporate Responsibility at Hilton Hotels and Resorts
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Two Weeks to Go and Acumen Explore Investing in Impact

Business Fights Poverty’s flagship Oxford conference takes place on 18th July, with just two weeks to go we are pleased to introduce Acumen as our partners leading the Impact Investing zone.
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CARE Examine the Importance of Gender Equity in Business

Gender equality is high on the corporate agenda, but behind the hashtags, the empowering t-shirts and glossy photographs, are we really creating change and tackling the barriers to gender equity and inclusive business? CARE, who will host the Women’s Equity and Inclusivity Zone at Business Fights Poverty Oxford, examine the importance of gender equity in business.
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What is a Refugee-Inclusive Business?

As part of the Business and Refugees Challenge, we have been exploring some of the barriers to mobilizing more business action to support refugees’ resilience in low to middle income countries. In the process, we have uncovered numerous examples of innovative business ideas, ambitious commitments, and genuine efforts to support the needs of refugees.
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Exploring Last-Mile Distribution and BoP Marketing

In the second article, introducing you to the experts and topics we’ll be exploring during our Business Fights Poverty, flagship conference in Oxford on 18th July, we introduce you to inclusive distribution, brought to you by BoPInc (& Every1Mobile), Hystra, and Practical Action.
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Brand Purpose – How Social Impact & Shared Values Win Customer Love

In 2012 Edelman predicted that ‘purpose’ would be the re-engineering of brand marketing. Looks like they were right: in 2017, the online marketing platform CMO proposed that it’s now time to admit that traditional marketing is dead. That brands with real purpose and meaning are already winning the hearts (and wallets) of customers.
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How Can We Engage SMEs Exporting to Frontier Markets With the Case for Doing Business With Integrity?

Introducing our new Challenge on doing business with integrity, with support from the UK’s Department for International Development. This Challenge aims to identify the best way to articulate and communicate the benefits of doing business with integrity to SMEs exporting to frontier markets, with a focus on eradicating bribery and corruption.
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Music, Business and Peace: An Overview

This article introduces our new Challenge on the relationship between music, business and peace.
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Interview with Alexander Bernstein: Leonard Bernstein’s Revolution

Interview with Alexander Bernstein, president of Artful Learning Incorporated, and the founding chairman of the Leonard Bernstein Center for Learning
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Interview with Jerry White, CEO of Global Impact Strategies, Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia

Jerry White is known for leading high-impact campaigns including the historic International Campaign to Ban Landmines which was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1997. He also co-founded Survivor Corps, formerly Landmine Survivors Network, the first international organization created by and for survivors to help victims of war rebuild their lives.
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Connecting Music to Ethics

Many features of music contribute to its positive potential for promoting social harmony. But music’s influence on human interaction is not entirely benign. Kathleen Higgins considers four strategies for utilizing music to advance peace and other humanizing ends, mindful of the danger that it can be harnessed to very different sorts of agendas.
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