by Coro Strandberg | Dec 1, 2024 | Social Purpose
Image: Christina Morillo Corporate 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,...
by Coro Strandberg | Nov 1, 2024 | Social Purpose
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...
by Coro Strandberg | Oct 1, 2024 | Social Purpose
Image: Pixabay The 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...
by Coro Strandberg | Sep 1, 2024 | Social Purpose
Image: Kindel Media More 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...
by Coro Strandberg | Apr 15, 2024 | Social Purpose
“Business leaders across Canada are increasingly aware of aligning their business with their corporate purpose. Businesses with more established [sustainability] may even be looking at putting their corporate purpose at the core of everything they do.” This is how...
by Mike Rowlands | Mar 25, 2024 | Social Purpose
Since our launch last year, the Canadian Purpose Economy Project has accelerated, mobilizing the Canadian social purpose ecosystem, developing tools to support social purpose stakeholders and influencers, and convening supporters across the country. On February 13,...