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Could ignoring the bottom line be the route to resilience? – our interview in Raconteur
By Sam Haddad 24 Mar 2023 A Japanese pharmaceutical company is perhaps not an obvious place to look for a workplace revolution. But in the early 1990s, under the direction of its new president Haruo Naito, pharma giant Eisai quietly began to transform the way it did...
Financial Times on ESG, the altruistic enterprise, and more
Andrew Hill a leading FT business and management editor took on the ESG debate, which earlier was carried under the names of CSR, Benefit Corporation, and more in his recent article. I am happy he used in his article several talks we had previously on the topics of...
Reinventing companies by serving the common good and thriving as a result
The Altruistic Corporation: Reinventing companies by serving the common good and thriving as a result Isaac Getz and Laurent Marbacher Working paper ESCP Business School July 2020 Adam Smith posited that by pursuing its economic self-interest, business...
Our talk for THE NEXTGEN ENTREPRISE Summit 2020 (10′)
Here is the talk that has been recorded for the THE NEXTGEN ENTREPRISE Summit 2020 in November that year. The talk details the concept of the altruistic enterprise and illustrates it with the example of Handeslbanken, a leading Swedish bank. ...
How to make your business thrive by doing good
Chronique publiée le 4 Décembre sur AGENDA, le blog du World Economic Forum Professor Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, has called for the abandonment of both “shareholder capitalism” and “state capitalism”, which have proven to be incapable of...
Altruistic companies during the COVID-19 pandemic
A lesson in creating successful companies that care The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting how altruistic businesses adapt, remain flexible, and survive. Strategy+Business, June 10, 2020 by Isaac Getz and Laurent Marbacher In mid-March, COVID-19 locked down most...
Coronavirus: Businesses must seize the chance to be altruistic
Here is an Op-Ed we have published in the British daily CITY A.M. on how some--altrusitically-minded-- companies act during the COVID-19 crisis. Coronavirus: Businesses must seize the chance to be altruistic Isaac Getz and Laurent Marbacher We recently...
Altruism can be good for business, as these companies show
Le 17 octobre, nous avons publié un article sur le site du World Economic Forum autour des idées de "L'entreprise altruiste". On Oct. 17, we have published an article on the World Economic Forum site on "The altruistic corporation" topic. Despite all the benefits that...
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