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Tracking Carbon: How Plan A provides companies with carbon data and insights
Plan A manages and analyses the carbon footprint of companies such as BMW, Societe General or BCG DV. We talked with Lubomila, Plan A CEO and Co-Founder about the deve...
Procurement with Purpose with Peter Smith: Decades of procurement expertise culminate in sustainable procurement
Peter Smith, the author of “Procurement with Purpose”, takes us on a deep dive into the world of impactful procurement, how companies can build structures to integrate...
Changing Mindsets: Kantar's Foundational Sustainability Survey and how it changes our perception of the conscious consumer
Corporates often struggle with deeply understanding their customers needs. This is especially true when it comes to issues of sustainable consumption and the so-called...
The Year in Review: 2021 at the Unusual Talks & Yunus Social Business
In this year-end episode, we take a look back at 2021 to highlight key developments in social intrapreneurship, social business and social procurement. We take this op...
The power of real diversity: How Inclusively and Autodesk work together to help people with disabilities enter the job market
More and more companies understand that diversification of their workforce has a massive impact on their performance, sustainability and social impact. However, only f...
Textiles for good: IKEA partners with RangSutra to improve livelihoods for thousands of women artisans
100 million people across India depend on the textile industry as their main source of income. However rural artisans which are mostly women often lack the skills to o...
Potatoes For Good: How McCain and its social business Campo Vivo help smallholders in Colombia
Almost 50% of Colombia’s rural population still live in poverty and have no chance to build up assets – such as land ownership, technical support or irrigation. Puttin...
Social Procurement with The Body Shop and Plastics for Change: How plastics can lift waste pickers out of poverty
Since 40 years The Body Shop acts as a perfect example to prove that higher spendings on a sustainable supply chain can make a perfect and impactful business case. Wha...
Value chains as a force for good? How companies like IKEA and SAP aim to scale impact through social procurement.
This fragile state of the globalized economy makes it painfully obvious that our value chains may need a revision. A Capgemini Supply Chain Survey amongst 1,000 compan...
Food for Thought: How Nutrivida, a social business by FIFCO, battles malnutrition in Costa Rica
Today, we bring you an inspiring story about an extraordinary woman, Gisela Sanchez. Having experienced poverty herself growing up, she understood the realities of fam...
Access to Healthcare (part 2): How Medtronic is developing community healthcare solutions
Ruchika Singhal is the Vice President of Global Access at Medtronic and heads Medtronic Labs – a social business for healthcare access. Millions of people can't afford...
Access to Healthcare (part 1): How Novartis provides healthcare access to millions
The COVID crisis has made it painfully clear that we need equitable access to healthcare. We get a chance to talk with Cristina Campos and Lutz Hegemann at Novartis, w...
FinTech for Good: Mastercard and financial innovation for inclusion
Access to finance as a tool for poverty alleviation? Salah Goss talks about her mission to bring financial services to the African continent - and drive change and pos...
Impact through Insurance: AXA and its Emerging Customers Division
Garance Wattez-Richard is leading AXA‘s Emerging Customers division, tackling social issues amongst BOP customers through insurance solutions with a sustainable busine...
Putting Theory Into Practice – Intrapreneurship Experiences from INSEAD & EY
How can we drive social value in a large company? Which role do incentive structures play in supporting social innovation? And is ESG helpful in driving positive impac...
Danone's Journey towards Purpose – And the Ousting of Emmanuel Faber
"Let us conduct our businesses with both the heart and the head" – Antoine Riboud, Danone CEO 1972 Antoine Riboud's speech in Marseille came just two years after Milto...
Transforming Your Company into a Force for Good with the former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and Professor Yunus - Unusual Talks
On this episode, you will listen to the Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Yunus and the former CEO of Unilever, Paul Polman, talking about climate change and the abil...
Social Intrapreneurs who are Changing Companies from Within – Launch Episode
You will hear from Gib Bulloch and his business DEcelerator for intrapreneurs, from Florencia Estrade who has created the “I’m in” campaign at the League of Intraprene...
An Unusual Trailer
Today, we are launching our Unusual Pioneers’ podcast. It features the highlights of our Unusual Talks brought to you by Yunus Social Business, the Schwab Foundation f...