The New Year is the time of new beginnings and our resolutions are the commitments we make to new goals and possibly even new visions. So why not reflect on what kind of future we want? The Future We Want is a project, which empowers individuals, communities, businesses, corporations, world leaders and countries to give their visions of a sustainable future. Continue reading →
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Futurama,
future visions,
sustainable change,
The Future We Want,
The New Pioneers,
US Presidential Climate Action Project,
William Becker
The immoral aspects of greed, selfishness and short-term profit thinking are just some of the causes that have been proposed as the root core of current recent financial crisis. Many of the growth challenges that are being discussed right now are not new. We can go 20, 30, 40 years back in time to find warnings and revelations of the flaws in our current systems’ design. The big question is: will we be able to move beyond the already familiar boom-and-bust cycle? Continue reading →
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Globalization,
Growth principles,
New paradigms
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Adam Smith,
age of globalization,
Al Gore,
Angela Merkel,
Bernard Lietaer,
economic and social value creation,
G20 warning,
Green Economy,
Green New Deal,
NEF,
Occupy Wall Street,
paradigm shift,
sustainable growth
Long before terms like “values” and “sustainability” became business buzzwords in the West they were already being implemented by one Indian corporation. The Tata group, founded by Jamsetji N. Tata in the late 1890s, is today going on over 130 years of emphasising themes of governance, sustainability, values and ethics. Continue reading →
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India,
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Social entrepreneurship
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Anant G. Nadkarni,
changing world,
CSR,
Indian Institute of Science,
Jamsetji N. Tata,
new logics,
socially innovative business concepts,
Taj Hotels,
Tata,
Tata Council for Community Initiatives,
The New Pioneers
With today’s resource scarcity and skyrocketing social imbalances, how we determine and measure growth is becoming a critical issue. In The New Pioneers I focus on three sustainable growth principles. One of them is the principle of immaterial growth, reflected in concepts like the Triple Bottom Line and Gross National Happiness. Continue reading →
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Globalization,
Growth principles,
New paradigms,
Social innovations
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Bhutan,
economic and social value creation,
European Commssion Beyond GDP,
Fridtjof Capra,
GNH,
GNP,
gross national happiness,
Hazel Henderson,
Human Development Index (HDI),
immaterial growth,
paradigm shift,
Senator Robert Kennedy,
simon kuznets,
three pillars of sustainability,
triple bottom line
The New Pioneers blogpost has been listed among the 50 best blogs for green business students. Conscious business school students want to make a difference beyond maximizing shareholder value. Continue reading →
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Education,
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New paradigms,
Sustainable business,
Tools & guidelines
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360,
age of globalization,
Beyond grey pinstripes,
Bschool.com,
changing world,
Copenhagen Business School,
CSR,
economic and social value creation,
Education,
Net Impact,
Rakesh Khurana,
Responsibility Day,
student organizations,
sustainable business,
UN PRME
The transformation of the internet through new social technologies is changing the face of CSR. With Web 2.o comes CSR 2.o with new possibilities for social interaction, involvement and participation in finding innovative ways to tackle everything from individual business challenges to global problems. Continue reading →
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Social innovations
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age of globalization,
consumer activism,
new logics,
paradigm shift,
social media,
socially innovative business concepts,
the era of co-cration,
Web 2.0
Welcome to a 21st century world of profound changes that will affect our way of thinking, living and working for the next many years to come. Continue reading →
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New paradigms
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21st century,
age of globalization,
changing world,
era of compassionate capitalism,
paradigm shift,
Peter Drucker,
redesigns,
the age of sustainability,
the era of co-cration,
World Economic Forum
