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Hi Susan,
Thanks for pointing us to the BTI, which is very interesting. It certainly seems to provide a sophisticated framework for measuring governance issues.
On the other hand, it is complex, subjective, and relatively opaque, though most of it…
Thank you, Isaac. I want to push you a bit more by asking, EXACTLY which aspects of CSR, or to move beyond CSR, which specific types of corporate behavior most likely to result in reducing/preventing conflict?
I would be inclined to think that corp…
John Mackey's "Conscious Capitalism,"
http://www.flowidealism.org/2007/Downloads/Conscious-Capitalism_JM.pdf
Explicitly promotes the idea that businesses should look after the interests of all stakeholders, including customers, employees, supplier…
I am very much aligned with Kellie on all of this.
In addition to Kellie's excellent program at Thunderbird, there are numerous other programs that help small, local SME businesses in conflict or post-conflict zones to succeed. See, for example, BP…
Hi Jessica,
The world is a big place, with many diverse phenomena, and it is difficult to make generalizations for which there are not exceptions. Clearly there are contexts in which everything that you say happens to apply, and there are other con…
Thank you Steve.
I certainly agree that Israel/Palestine has enormous issues that go far beyond economic growth and prosperity, though I also think no one really knows how things would look there if the entire region became as wealthy as Europe and…
Hi Jessica,
Thank you for focusing an important and interesting area. It is my sense that we must make a very careful analytical distinction here between:
1. Does economic growth reduce poverty?
2. Is economic growth the only goal?
I emphaticall…
Thanks to all of you for a rich and stimulating discussion. I'd like to follow up with a few points:
1. First, Steve, I'd agree that commerce alone is not the solution, especially in a situation that is as difficult as is the Middle East. That said…
Thank you, Tim, for the introduction and for putting together both the wonderful conference last fall and for your role in this eConference.
Often conversations on business and peace, or business and poverty, are focused on multinational corporatio…
The World Bank Institute and the Institute for Corporate Responsibility present an online Conference on Business and Peace.
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- Source of my passion about the power of business to fight poverty
- I work for a non-government organisation
- Website:
- http://www.flowidealism.org
- Industry:
- Non-profit
- About my work:
- I am the CEO and co-founder of FLOW, a non-profit devoted to "Liberating the Entrepreneurial Spirit for Good," promoting entrepreneurial solutions to world problems. We have three main programs, "Peace through Commerce," "Conscious Capitalism," and "Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs." I am the primary author of the recently released book "Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems," which includes articles by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market, Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Hernando de Soto, Co-Chair of the U.N. Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, and other co-authors.
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