Session recording from the Oxford Economics of Mutuality Virtual Forum 2020 with Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and Mars: ‘Transforming Business, Finance and Education to Thrive by Meeting the Needs of the World’.

Session recording from the Oxford Economics of Mutuality Virtual Forum 2020 with Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and Mars: ‘Transforming Business, Finance and Education to Thrive by Meeting the Needs of the World’.

Session recording from the Oxford Economics of Mutuality Virtual Forum 2020 with Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and Mars: ‘Transforming Business, Finance and Education to Thrive by Meeting the Needs of the World’.

The Maua business pilot was initiated in 2013 in Kenya in collaboration with Wrigley East Africa. It aimed to provide a new route to market for Wrigley products by engaging consumers in informal settlements and rural areas that were…

Royal Canin is the leading brand in its sector, having enjoyed double-digit revenue growth over the last two decades. This is somewhat surprising, as traditional management theory would consider its business model to be inefficient…

Software provider SAP’s purpose is to ‘help the world run better and improve people’s lives’, and it combines this with a promise to ‘innovate to help our customers run at their best’. The challenge was to make this purpose relevant…

LafargeHolcim is a leading global building materials and solutions company serving masons, builders, architects and engineers all over the world. Its products are used in a range of building products from small, local affordable…

Conservatorio is a real estate development company that builds mixed-income, mixed-use (commercial or residential) projects in deteriorated but historically significant areas of Central American cities, particularly in…

BASF is a large and complex chemical company based in Germany with operations in more than 80 countries. Its products range from chemicals to performance products, agricultural solutions, and oil and gas. With a purpose…

LafargeHolcim is a leading global building materials and solutions company serving masons, builders, architects and engineers all over the world. Its products are used in a range of building products from small, local affordable…

The AgTech startup AgUnity Ltd., established in 2017, is an Australian blockchain-based, for-profit commercial operations arm of the AgriLedger Hong Kong Charitable Trust. AgriLedger is the philanthropic organisation linked…

Founded in 1998 and designed as a social enterprise with an integrated social mission, Divine Chocolate is a U.K.-based Fairtrade confectionary company that also operates in the U.S. With offices in London and Washington…

Established in 1978, Esquel is a global textile and apparel company head-quartered in Hong Kong. It is vertically integrated, spanning from cotton farms, ginning, spinning of yarns, weaving and knitting of fabrics, to garment…

Founded in 2005, JD.com is China’s largest retailer by revenue ($55.7 billion in 2017), with 292.5 million active e-commerce customers. JD’s unrivalled nationwide fulfilment network allows it to provide same- or next-day delivery…

Kate Spade New York was founded in 1993, debuting with just six handbag silhouettes, which combined sleek, utilitarian shapes and colourful palettes in an entirely new way. Kate Spade has grown into a global lifestyle…

Founded in 1959, Mondragon is a federation of industrial co-operative associations with over 260 companies and subsidiaries. Although it remains closely tied to its place of origin, Spain’s Basque Region, Mondragon now has…

This series of case studies explores how mutual approaches to business can help companies and their partners tackle some of the most pressing global challenges. The businesses featured in this series share a commitment…

Established in 1863, Solvay is a global chemical company. Headquartered in Belgium, it employs approximately 25,000 people and operates in 61 countries. Global in scale, Solvay took in €10.1 billion in revenue in 2017…

Established in 1973, Timberland is a global leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of outdoor premium footwear, apparel and accessories. The company is known worldwide for its quality products as well as its…

Although M&S’s own operations have an impact on the environment, its biggest impact comes through the products it sells and the way in which those products are used. Rising raw...

Bel Access created Sharing Cities (SC) with the ambition to expand the number of consumers, particularly those at the Middle of the Pyramid in emerging markets. SC has...

Globally, insurers have observed both an upward trend in weather-related insured losses due to the increase in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and the growing...

E-waste is the world’s fastest-growing waste stream, with a relatively low recycling rate overall (approximately 15% globally). 2 Rapid technology innovation and ever-shortening...

Lost and discarded fishing gear, particularly nets, makes up 10% of the world’s marine waste. Old and discarded nets can last for centuries and cause “ghost fishing,” whereby they...

Education and learning are powerful tools that improve people’s lives. The reality today, however, is that four billion low-income and emerging middle-class consumers are often underserved by...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are ambitious and require trillions in investment. As a result, the financing needed to implement such goals exceeds the financing available...

About 300,000 children across the country, 55,000 of them Bedouin children, are eligible to receive a hot meal under the Israeli Food Security Act of 2004 [1]. Efforts by private external...