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Episode 2 | The changing face of impact investment: Interview with John Kohler, co-founder of Toniic, a global syndication network of impact investors, and Senior Director of Impact Capital at Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

January 18, 2017 Financing Social Entrepreneurs 00:40:05

John is a highly experienced former business executive and venture capital investor now focussing on social innovation and impact investing. He is a co-founder of Toniic, a syndication network of impact investors, and Senior Director of Impact Capital at

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Episode 68: Interview with Christian Seelos, co-author of the newly published Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do It

January 15, 2017 Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs 00:34:49

Christian is a scholar of social innovation –he is the Leo Tindemans Chair for Business Model Innovation at KU Leuven — a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and an academic visitor at the Said Business Sch

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Episode 1 | How Omidyar Network invests: Interview with Scott Wu, partner at Omidyar Network, leader of the firm’s investment, finance, and legal operations

January 11, 2017 Financing Social Entrepreneurs 00:18:19

Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm that consists of a foundation and an impact investment firm. As such, the firm can provide whatever type of capital is necessary to support social innovation, whether grants or for-profit investments. Omi

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Episode 15: John Elkington| Exponential technologies, climate change, and sustainable development.

January 10, 2017 The Sustainability Agenda 00:44:17

John is a pioneer in the world of corporate responsibility and sustainable development -as a writer, consultant, and serial entrepreneur he has been at the forefront of sustainability thinking for four decades. John is the author or co-author of 19 books

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Episode 67: Interview with Willy Oppenheim, founder of Omprakash Foundation, a US-based international non-profit

January 4, 2017 Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs 00:34:38

Willy Oppenheim is an educator, a researcher, and the founder of Omprakash a social enterprise working to make international volunteering more ethical and impactful. Willy founded Omprakash (www.omprakash.org) in 2004 with the goal of creating a platform

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Episode 14: Hunter Lovins| New thinking that will drive Regenerative Capitalism, the next wave beyond sustainability

December 12, 2016 The Sustainability Agenda 00:37:31

From a vantage point of 40 years experience helping create the field of sustainability, Hunter Lovins is in an excellent position to explain where sustainability is today–and to highlight the latest thinking that will drive regenerative practices, the nex

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Episode 66: Interview with Dr Marc Ventresca, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

December 10, 2016 Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs 00:57:10

Marc is on faculty at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wolfson College.  His research and teaching focus on innovation, institutions and infrastructure, with particular empirical projects at the intersection of organizational

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Episode 13: Professor Paul Ekins| Smart regulation, new technologies and carbon taxation

November 29, 2016 The Sustainability Agenda 00:29:17

Little had been written on the role of environmental taxes when Paul Ekins wrote The Living Economy in1986. Since that time we have learnt a lot more about the potential role of taxation in dealing with climate change, yet there has been relatively little

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Episode 65: Interview with Jeffrey Hollender, co-founder of Seventh Generation and Hollender Sustainable Brands

November 25, 2016 Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs 00:49:48

Jeffrey Hollender is a social entrepreneur, author and activist. After a wide ranging entrepreneurial career, Jeffrey co-founded Seventh Generation and built it over 25 years into a leading natural product company recognised for its authenticity, transpar

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Episode 12: Tessa Tennant | The future of green finance

November 21, 2016 The Sustainability Agenda 00:50:06

After several false starts, many experts now believe that the green finance sector is at a tipping point. Investors are paying attention to ESG factors as never before, there is an explosion of investor interest in green bonds, and195 countries adopted th

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