Top stories published by Volans in 2017

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Six Secrets of Breakthrough Business Models

A new resource hits the Project Breakthrough website

Written by John Elkington and Jacqueline Lim

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John Elkington in Volans

Jan 5, 2017

Captain Trump Seizes The Helm Of The Titanic

New evidence on a famous disaster offers key lessons for 2017[1]

Richard Roberts in Volans

Jul 31, 2017

Are you ready for the Sustainability Revolution?

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Richard Roberts in Volans

Oct 5, 2017

The future of trust is distributed

Are we — are you — too trusting?

Richard Roberts in Volans

Nov 17, 2017

Air pollution: can new business models help solve this public health crisis?

Co-authored with Jacqueline Lim

Air pollution is one of the biggest killers on the planet. According to a study published in The Lancet last month, it’s responsible for 6.5…

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Richard Roberts in Volans

Feb 1, 2017

Getting into the Flows

‘Flows trump stocks.’ That was the conclusion of a 2009 Harvard Business Review article by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison. It used to be that stocks of knowledge — something you knew that nobody else did, like Coca Cola’s proprietary formula — were the ultimate source…

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Richard Roberts in Volans

Feb 14, 2017

A CSR agenda for Silicon Valley

The tech industry’s honeymoon is over. It came to an abrupt end on the 9th of November, 2016 — the day Silicon Valley’s unintended consequences became unignorable.

That morning, the world woke up to the news that America’s most famous Twitter troll…

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Jacqueline Lim in Volans

Nov 30, 2017

Three Keys to Collaboration between Government and Business

How SMEs can be part of the solution to complex urban challenges

Co-authored with Richard Roberts

Richard Roberts in Volans

Mar 20, 2017

Reorienting financial flows: the $12 trillion question

A recent report by the Business & Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC) claims to have identified market opportunities related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) worth at least $12 trillion a year by 2030.

Richard Roberts in Volans

Jun 2, 2017

Can sustainable development provide the growth engine for capitalism’s next phase?

2017 is a landmark year for the sustainable development movement. It’s 30 years since the World Commission on Environment and Development — better known as the Brundtland Commission after…

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