Up at some unconscionable hour to trek across London to see Arsenal Football Club, starting with breakfast with Ivan Gazidis, their Chief Executive, and Svenja Geissmar, now their General Counsel. Then a session with their Board. Found myself much more interested than I had imagined I might be. Odd to be in a boardroom and Chief Executive's office that had been moved in their wood-panelled entirety from another site - reminded me a little of the recent party in San Francisco with the house into which the owners had inserted a reasonable facsimile of a British pub. Then back to Bloomsbury Place to work on various writing projects and a couple of slide presentations, with the occasional telecon with people like Jeroo Billimoria of Aflatoun.... more >

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CSR Wire 'To Do' List
14 January 2010
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In the CSR Top 5
03 January 2010
Whatever you think of online polls, a 2009 survey of CSR experts has me in august company. - More >

The Economist on the Triple Bottom Line
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Are CFOs Ready for Integrated Reporting?
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:33 - John Elkington
An interesting new website was launched at midnight yesterday (or is that today?), focusing on integrated reporting - also a key focus of our ongoing ‘Transparent Economy’ project with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The website’s blog kicks off with an entry I wrote over the weekend on the agenda as we see it. More - Full entry >

How Would You Spend $10 Billion?
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:14:23 - John Elkington
Bill Gates recently committed $10 billion over the next decade to help develop and distribute vaccines to children in the developing world. So what would you have done with the money? I have been carrying a print-out of this Wall Street Journal online article by Ben Wright and Yasmine Chinwala around in my bag this - Full entry >

Singapore International Foundation launches first-of-its-kind programme for young social entrepreneurs
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:28:57 - Kevin Teo
From the Singapore International Foundation’s website: Singapore, 3 March 2010… The Singapore International Foundation (SIF), in partnership with Volans Asia, launches today the Young Social Entrepreneurs (YSE) 2010, a unique programme that will allow aspiring youths to pick up the basics of starting up a social enterprise. From 3 to 7 March, six groups of three to - Full entry >

Business leaders present a vision for a sustainable economy
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:59:55 - Alejandro Litovsky
Last year I was involved in the design of the future scenarios ‘Vision 2050: the New Agenda for Business’, an effort by some of the world’s most influential companies to lay out a pathway for achieving a sustainable world by 2050. The report suggests that greater sustainability and resource-efficiency will, increasingly, become a precondition for corporate - Full entry >

Gates Switches from Mosquitoes to Fireflies
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:01:57 - John Elkington
Was sent a link to Bill Gates’s latest TED talk, on climate and energy, and watched this evening between sessions. This time, instead of releasing mosquitoes into the audience to underscore the threat of mosquito-borne diseases, he opens a jar of fireflies. They don’t get very far, which I hope isn’t a reflection of the - Full entry >

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