Building Back Faster, Greener, Fairer with Peter Holbrook, of Social Enterprise UK
What is the relationship between business and society? Are profit-maximising models any longer compatible with our post-Covid world? Climate chaos, population growth, growing inequality, habitat loss, political instability continue to threaten us with even greater likely consequences than COVID19.
Can we transition to the economy we’ll need in the future in the wake of COVID and if so what might need to change? Shared value, public benefit, social value are increasingly featuring within our consideration of what constitutes ‘cost’ and ‘value’.
Does this represent a fundamental shift in markets or just CSR 2.0?
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