Business purpose is shifting from maximizing short-term profit to embedding purpose to tackle complex social and environmental challenges. This post explores how companies can redefine strategy, culture, and incentives—and how the Canadian Purpose Economy Project is helping build an ecosystem where purpose businesses can truly thrive.
Image: Anne Nygård on Unsplash Even amid pushback on ESG, expectations for companies to help solve global challenges are rising — not retreating. A new TSX 60 Social Purpose Report Card shows that nearly half of Canada’s biggest firms have now embraced a social...
Image: Alan Wouda This article was written by Coro Strandberg and Stephen Mallory, first published in Sustainable Brands. The original publication can be found here. It is reposted here for informational purposes only, with full credit to the original authors and...
This article was written by Coro Strandberg and Wellington Holbrook, first published in The Hill Times. The original publication can be found here. It is reposted here for informational purposes only, with full credit to the original authors and publisher. A purpose...
Image: EyeEm This article was written by Coro Strandberg and first published on Sustainable Brands. The original publication can be found here. It is reposted here for informational purposes only, with full credit to the original author and publisher. ...
Image: Kampus Production This article was written by Coro Strandberg and Fiona Famulak and first published on Sustainable Brands. The original publication can be found here. It is reposted here for informational purposes only, with full credit to the original...
Image: Christina MorilloCorporate governance standards and expectations continue to evolve in response to rising demands from investors, regulators and stakeholders — and in response to continuous improvement on the part of high-performing Boards. In recent years,...
Of the 44 MBA curricula we reviewed, almost half had some social-purpose-related material, but only two schools earned an A In 2022, Corporate Knights published The Social Purpose Transition Pathway, a report that graded companies on how well they were implementing...
Image: PixabayThe purpose ecosystem is coming of age. You can see this when you start coming across academic research defining it and studying its potential and constraints, when you watch it come to fruition through your or others’ deliberate efforts, or when over...
Image: Kindel MediaMore and more companies are adopting a social purpose as the reason their business exists. There are different definitions of a social purpose business, but fundamentally it is a business whose reason for being is to create a better world. This...