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Buenos Aires

John Elkington · 16 September 2010 · Leave a Comment

1 With part of the Avina Foundation team 2 Taxi meter – against which I kept banging my head 3 Cathedral 4 Demonstration 1 5 Demonstration 2 6 Demonstration 3 7 Me 8 Bullet scars from 1973, the driver said 9 Graffito 10 Football Colours 12 Tango 1 13 Tango 2, with Christine Blondel 14 Tango 2, with Luciana and Fernando 15 Colours 2 16 Some of the Desparecidos 17 Tails somebody wins 18 Blues 19 It’s still winter 20 Panama hat 21 Twilight 22 In the transformed Docklands 23 The Pink House 25 Tango band at the Cafe Tortoni 26 Tango 2 27 Tango 3

It is Argentina’s Bicentennial Year, I discovered when I arrived in Buenos Aires for a conference aimed at young people who are owners of multi-generational family businesses in Latin America. Organised by Banco Itaú Unibanco at the Palacio Duhau, the event was full of interesting folk – and I emerged with a strong interest in coming back – and a couple of invitations to do so.

The first day, I did a session for the Avina Foundation with around 25 people – and afterwards we went back to the Foundation’s offices, where Alejandro (Litovsky) used to work. After the event closed, Luciana Tavares Nobre Varella and her colleague Fernando from Banco Itaú Unibanco hailed a taxi and took Christine Blondel of INSEAD and I on a tour around the city – ending with supper and a tango show at the Café Tortoni. Joyous.

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I began this blog with an entry reporting on a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, on 30 September 2003. The blog element of the website has gone through several iterations since, with much of the older material still available.

Like so many things in my life, blog entries blur the boundaries between the personal and the professional. As explained on this site’s Home Page, the website and the blog are part platform for ongoing projects, part autobiography, and part accountability mechanism.

In addition, my blogs have appeared on many sites such as: Chinadialogue, CSRWire, Fast Company, GreenBiz, Guardian Sustainable Business, and the Harvard Business Review.

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John Elkington is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He is currently Founding Partner and Executive Chairman of Volans, a future-focused business working at the intersection of the sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation movements.

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