BSR Insight | Facing the Dilemmas of Sustainable Development
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Charlotte Bancilhon, Associate, Advisory Services
Publication Date
February 21, 2012
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At the first of BSR’s “Great Debates”—an event series held in our Paris office to help celebrate BSR’s 20-year anniversary—Sodexo CEO Michel Landel and Ashoka France CEO Arnaud Mourot discussed how companies and their stakeholders can identify innovative sustainable solutions together through collective thinking.
The speakers agreed that empowering workers and fostering entrepreneurship within companies and society can be a strong catalyst for finding creative and innovative solutions to systemic problems.
“Service companies cannot [continue] to deliver value to their clients if they don’t know how to put their people at the heart of their activities and find ways to factor sustainability into the way they improve strategy and operations.”
—Michel Landel, CEO, Sodexo (February 9, 2012)
“The world of business and the world of not-for-profit are too often opposed, while they have much to bring to each other. Today, business and social initiatives [must] converge to create new alliances and new models.”
—Arnaud Mourot, Ashoka France (February 9, 2012)
About the Author(s)
Charlotte Bancilhon, Associate, Advisory Services
With strong analytical and research skills, Charlotte is an asset to BSR’s Paris office, where she primarily works with companies in the extractives, information and communications technology, and transportation industries... Read more →
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