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Generally innovation in the context of sustainability focuses on the conversations around the role of innovation by business leaders who advocate the development of sound business models to encourage investment in new products and services. Many products, but not all, are focused on renewable energy, another EarthSayers.tv Special Collection.

This collection addresses other emerging markets in diverse industries ranging from agriculture to information technology to biotechnology as well as beauty and wellness. Sustainability calls on us to consider innovation more broadly to include not just the technical, but the social and environmental as well. Innovation may be found in conversations around ethical sourcing, social innovation, and in the role of the social entrepreneur.

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The Role of Corporate Philanthropy by Stuart Hart

The role of Corporate Philanthropy in a fundamental transformation on how change how we do business similar to when we moved to the industrial revolution. And co-creation is key as is embedded creation.

On June 2 at the CECP Summit, one of the world's top authorities on the implications of On June 2 at the CECP Summit, one of the world's top authorities on the implications of sustainable development for business strategy, Professor Stuart Hart drew on the latest edition of his book Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems as well as his pathbreaking article "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," written in collaboration with C.K. Prahalad, to discuss both why and how companies can move "beyond greening" toward transformational, strategic change.sustainable development for business strategy, Professor Stuart Hart drew on the latest edition of his book Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems as well as his pathbreaking article "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," written in collaboration with C.K. Prahalad, to discuss both why and how companies can move "beyond greening" toward transformational, strategic change.