Insights

Why is Sustainability a Concept Closer to JUSTICE than to the ENVIRONMENT?

Environmental protection such as packing, renewable energy, climate action, water, and waste management have dominated the sustainability mindset. Today, many people, including experts, thought leaders, and even some sustainability gurus, use the terms “sustainability” and “environmental protection” as synonyms. And they aren’t. Sustainability is a broader concept, and the level of success in achieving it relies on proper understanding.
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How the Climate Justice Framework Helps put People at the Heart of Net Zero Ambitions

Climate change and inequality are two of the biggest challenges of our time. Tackling one without the other is increasingly seen as not an option, including for business. The Business and Climate Justice Framework helps businesses identify both the opportunities of putting people at the centre of their climate ambitions and the risks of inaction.
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Making the Care Economy Everyone’s Business

Help us drive gender equity: Please take our survey to help us better understand business motivations for addressing the care economy and how entrepreneurs innovating in this space could support your business. 
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Sustainable Supply Chains: Future Proofing by Farmer-Focusing

Gas prices. Food prices. Inflationary prices. Downward price pressure. Upward price pressure. Global supply chains. On and on it goes, with each new headline revealing a business environment stripped of its old rhythm. The environment feels particularly chaotic for any business dependent on functioning supply chains (i.e. virtually all of them).
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On How Rules Become Bridges Rather than Road Blocks Or Dams

The insights in the Nudges and Bridges series aim to help everyone, including business people, understand how they can contribute to peace. Rules can get a bad name. We often don’t like rules, but rules can actually create bridges for people in a couple of ways.
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Companies Need to Wake up to the Urgency of Ending Deforestation in Supply Chains. Here’s How

There is one thing companies can do right now that will help the global community meet the interwoven targets of addressing the risks of nature loss and climate change: halt deforestation and ecosystem conversion in agricultural and forestry supply chains.
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The ‘Big How’ for Business: Putting Strategy into Practice in the Face of Urgency and Disruption

As global challenges intensify, impactful implementation has never been more important, but also never more challenging. Here, James Payne at Forum for the Future, considers the ‘Big How’ of putting ambitious strategy into action to deliver real impact at scale and pace.
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Addressing the Future of Work for Young Africans in a Post-Covid World

This article aims to highlight the changing nature of work for young Africans that has been severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. This explores the state of youth unemployment on the continent and the potential for digitalisation to impact the future of work, calling on the business community and leaders to invest in skills development of youth, promoting entrepreneurial mindsets.
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Rainforest Alliance Youth

If We Want to Meet the SDGs, We Need to Ditch Empty Rhetoric and Invest in Young People

María Fernanda Ghiso, Youth Inclusion expert at the Rainforest Alliance, marked International Youth Day (last month) by reminding organisations that they need to enable today’s youth to deliver tangible and sustainable change.
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On The Difference Between Us and Them as Opposed to Us vs Them

The insights in the Nudges and Bridges series aim to help everyone, including business people, understand how they can contribute to peace. The words “us” and “them” typically are used to characterize problematic opposition. This video looks at these issues and also offers ways in which creating an “us” can be a good thing.  Maybe it is terms of finding a common enemy – that seems very true these days – but it also looks at more constructive possibilities of “us and them” while warning of the very real dangers of “us vs them.” 
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The Importance of Nudges & Bridges in an Increasingly Conflicted World

This iteration is an interview conducted by the CIBER Institute at the Kelley School of Business with Tim Fort that frames the notion of Nudges & Bridges, and the cultural artifacts that comprise them, in the context of the conflicted world in which we live in 2022.  The interviewer poses both international and domestic questions of Professor Fort to elucidate the ways in which cultural artifacts both help us to make better decisions, especially collaborative ones, as well to act as bridges for people to find common ground with those they disagree.
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The Great Divergence: Academic research and Ground Realities

Two long-held criticisms of research organizations are the siloed nature of academic research— often comfortably detached from ground realities, and research outcomes never leading to the desired impact. How can the often long-drawn process of scientific, evidence-based research start to make a dent on real life? In this article, we look at how Good Business Lab approaches this conundrum by narrowing in on two verticals within the organization that were developed to address these issues.
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Advancing Gender Equality through Inclusive Distribution Networks

A new learning brief from IFC introduces how the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector, including manufacturers, e-supply chain actors, investors, and development organizations, can advance gender equality within the distribution activities. The brief provides a market overview and presents an emerging business case, the challenges facing women distributors and retailers, and recommendations.
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Nudges & Bridges: The Sporting Life

In this episode of Nudges an Bridges, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics, Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, suggests that each of us could find common ground with those we may disagree with on social and political issues. How do we do that? Timothy relates to famous incidents of bonds in sportsmanship.
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Social inequality has become an investor priority

When the European Union embraced the concept of double materiality in the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, mandating that investors consider risks corporations externalize onto people, the business and human rights movement notched a significant win. Now the notion of double materiality is also taking shape in a different guise beyond Europe: in rising investor concerns around systemic risks, including inequality.
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The sobering reality of the UN’s Global Goals

Remember the Sustainable Development Goals? It’s not a facetious question. Amid all the other corporate sustainability priorities of the past few years — net zero, ESG, the circular economy, social justice, resource constraints and all the rest — not to mention a seemingly never-ending drumbeat of political upheaval, economic uncertainty and a pandemic, the SDGs seem to have fallen off the business agenda
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Join the Futuremakers Forum 2022

The Futuremakers Forum will look at the barriers to young people’s financial inclusion as well as what lies beyond them, identifying ways to redesign financial services to better meet young people’s needs.
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New research finds solutions to farmer resilience amid global crises

This year’s Business Fights Poverty Global Summit is warning of the tsunami of poverty created by COVID-19, climate change and conflict that our community is striving to resist. For the people working in global supply chains, in agriculture, fashion, extractive industries in low-income countries, and who often experience entrenched social inequality, crisis is all too common. Sadly they’ve been there time and time again.
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Are you integrating your brand purpose into tangible strategic action?

What’s the point of an inspiring brand purpose if it doesn’t translate into meaningful action? The key is moving beyond words and theory, embedding your purpose in your core business to deliver quantifiable, sustainable business and social impact. We explore strategies to get there, including purpose-to-action pointers you can implement now.
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Nudges & Bridges: The Sporting Life – How Sports Bring us Together

In this second episode of The Sporting Life – How Sports Bring us Together, Timothy Fort, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, suggests that each of us could find common ground with those we may disagree with on social and political issues. How do we do that? In this episode, Timothy explores how films depict sports.
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