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  • Road to Credibility 2010

    A Survey of Sustainability Reporting in Brazil

    28 Oct 2010 – Report

    Road to Credibility 2010 focuses on how effectively Brazilian businesses are reporting on their sustainability efforts.

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  • The Road to Credibility

    A Survey of Sustainability Reporting in Brazil

    09 Dec 2008 – Report

    The 8th global (in partnership with United Nations Environment Programme), and first national (in partnership with Fundação Brasileira para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável), survey of corporate sustainability reporting completed for Global Reporters.

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  • Enter the Social Entrepreneur (Época Negócios)

    25 Sep 2008 – Article

    Enter the social entrepreneur, who we believe will increasingly be seen as a leading indicator of corporate innovation, resilience and, ultimately, longer-term sustainability.

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  • It's Family Business (Época Negócios)

    25 Aug 2008 – Article

    It's time to look closer at how family-owned businesses manage sustainability.

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  • Family Planning (Director)

    30 Jul 2008 – Article

    Family firms rise to the challenge of sustainability issues.

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  • Can We Have Sustainability Without Democracy? (Época Negócios)

    28 Jul 2008 – Article

    Is democracy necessary for sustainable development — or does it get in the way?

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  • It's Family Business (Nikkei Ecology)

    Family-owned firms play a critical role in the economies of emerging market and developing countries

    04 Jul 2008 – Article

    The average family firm has a penchant for low levels of transparency (and in some cases semi-paranoid secrecy). How can we pull back the curtains?

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  • Keeping It in the Family (China Dialogue)

    01 Jul 2008 – Article

    Family ownership can imbue a firm with a sense of purpose and values its rivals may lack. John Elkington, turning to China’s emerging entrepreneurs, says it’s time to consider best practice in this much-overlooked sector.

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  • Can Democracy Save the Planet? (openDemocracy)

    25 Apr 2008 – Article

    In the effort to contain global warming and create an environmentally viable world, is democracy help or obstacle? A London conference sought to break new ground on a question of global relevance, report John Elkington & John Lotherington.

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  • Market Movers (Nikkei Ecology)

    09 Jan 2008 – Article

    SustainAbility was in New Delhi in December, attending the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Asia Sustainability Summit. It was here, also, that we launched several of our recent reports, including Market Movers.

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  • Time to Bop in Brazil and India (Época Negócios)

    26 Jun 2007 – Article

    A new report from the World Resources Institute (WRI) explores the nature and scale of markets at the base of the pyramid (BOP)—and looks at how successful businesses are moving to meet their needs.

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  • Pyramid Power (China Dialogue)

    10 May 2007 – Article

    There are important similarities in India and China's rapid growth, write John Elkington and Jodie Thorpe. As businesses now turn their attention to the base of India's economic pyramid, there may be important lessons for China.

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  • Where Is Globalization Headed? (Nikkei Ecology)

    10 Feb 2007 – Article

    Tackling environmental problems in the primary business gives us a good opportunity to reform business processes.

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  • Skoll Paper 3: Hot Spots

    A whistle-stop tour of social enterprise around the world

    02 Nov 2006 – Report

    Hot Spots is a travel guide to the world of social entrepreneurs, inspired by the realisation that certain countries and regions produce far more entrepreneurs than others – with Asia in leadership position.

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  • Issue Brief: Brazil

    Country of diversities and inequalities

    24 Feb 2006 – Article

    Brazil is a land where modern industry and commerce has flourished alongside extraordinary inequality, poverty, crime and violence. In part because of these extremes, Brazil has long been associated with sustainable development.

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