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9 Feb 2011
By Tania Ellis Socially Responsible Investing – A big step forward or a waste of time?Socially responsible investing (SRI) is putting more focus on corporate social and environmental practices through both positive and negative screens. In fact, ethical and green investment has never been more popular.
11 Oct 2010
By Tania Ellis Partnerships for global healthImproving global health is no longer only the job of governments, the EU, the UN or the large number of non-governmental organizations. Drug companies are also putting global health on their agendas. Engaging in partnerships is a key principle
Tania Ellis writes books and contributes to anthologies about topics like social entrepreneurship, CSR, social innovation and general social business trends. In our Reading Room you can find abstracts and book reviews.
Tania Ellis has contributed to UK report about The Why Not's. Read about the Local Heroes, the New Self-Starters and the Challengers, who are
breathing life back into crumbling local infrastructure, creating businesses with positive impact on society, and pushing the boundaries to inspire troubled communities.
28 Feb 2012
Channel NewsAsia, AM LiveDuring her 2012 Asia book promotion tour of The New Pioneers, social business expert Tania Ellis was interviewed by Channel NewsAsia about conducting business with a heart. Channel NewsAsia is a Singapore-based TV news channel. Since 1999, they have reported on global developments with an Asian perspective. The channel is viewed in 24 territories across Asia. (7 min.).
Social Edge
4 July 2011
Social Edge
20 June 2011
Social Edge
6 June 2011
Social entrepreneurs apply different growth strategies depending on their company’s development stage and whether they have quantitative or qualitative value-adding ambitions. It is about finding the optimalorganizational size and the right way to grow in terms of development, rather than pursuing growth for the sake of growth. In other words, size does not always matter, and small can be beautiful too
By Tania Ellis
25 May 2011
Long before terms like “values” and “sustainability” became business buzzwords in the West they were already being implemented by an Indian corporation: The Tata group, founded by Jamsetji N. Tata in the late 1890s, is today going on over 130 years of emphasizing themes of governance, sustainability, values and ethics.
Social Edge
24 May 2011
Social Edge
10 May 2011
When Thorkil Sonne started his business, he had no idea that his social business model would receive numerous prizes and international media attention. He is a textbook example of the growing number of social entrepreneurs who engage in commercial activities to create sustained social value.
The New Pioneers
1 May 2011
The New Pioneers has made no. 21 on the University of Cambridge’s “Top 40 Sustainability Books of 2010” alongside books by authors such as Al Gore, Muhammad Yunus and Joseph E. Stiglitz. The list, compiled by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership with input from its Senior Associates, strongly emphazises business response and creating change. Wayne Visser, Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, says about the process of comprising the list: “We selected those books which we believe are most relevant for today’s leaders.”
Caux Initiatives for Business
26 April 2011
The new pioneers are those companies and organisations who are creating a whole new paradigm, a new motive, for business. The old ‘business as usual’ model simply isn’t working in a world where the gap between rich and poor is ever widening. The new paradigm emphasises CSR, not just in the traditional sense of Corporate Social Responsibility but much more in the sense of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility, especially in a world of finite resources. This CSR includes concern for people, planet and profit in that order. Get the first two right and the third will follow.
forceforgood.com
20 April 2011
Ellis’s book is a fascinating and encouraging tour de force of this brave new world. She peppers her narrative with case studies of businesses that are doing the right thing. Indeed, rather focusing on the bad guys, she is relentlessly upbeat in highlighting business as a ‘force for good’.
By Tania Ellis
11 April 2011
In The New Pioneers I focus on three sustainable growth principles. One of them is the principle of immaterial growth. With today’s resource scarcity and skyrocketing social imbalances, how we determine and measure growth is becoming a critical issue. But this imbalance has been brewing for decades.