Published: 03 October, 2024
Two contrasting news stories caught my attention last month. The first featured the largest ever gathering of the B Corp movement. Held in Oxford the B Corp Festival brought together people from a growing community of over 2000 UK companies who have embraced its key objective – that business should be a force for good. B stands for Benefit. The slogan is People, Planet, Profit. The ethos is that all stakeholders – internal and external – should benefit from what a business does and how it does it.
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Published: 13 March, 2023
Harpers is diving into sustainability and how to positively impact boardroom culture during tomorrow’s webinar, taking place on Zoom from 10am to 11am.
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Published: 24 February, 2023
Some Harpers’ readers may not be avid sports fans, while others may live in countries where football is called soccer or where the game of cricket is as mystifying as nuclear physics. So before discussing why England football manager Gareth Southgate and cricket captain Ben Stokes have something to teach us about business, a little scene setting may be in order.
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Published: 10 August, 2020
I had called a meeting – I think it was to discuss innovation. We were maybe eight people, all key players in their roles, and me, the boss. The meeting was due to start at 11am, but I was finishing another important task and I did not make it until 11.15, maybe 11.20. I made my apologies and we got underway.
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Published: 02 October, 2019
How can smaller stores compete with the sprawling technology departments and deep machine learning capabilities of giants such as Amazon and Walmart? NextOrbit’s small business networks might provide an answer, writes Jo Gilbert
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A new initiative created with the aim of supporting UK growers and winemakers in their efforts to produce sustainable wines has been given an official name.
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