Beyond the Quarter’s mission is to create a world where business serves humanity. We help leaders build companies that are human, profitable and sustainable. So our very reason for existing is to positively contribute. In addition, in 2021 we undertook 2 initiatives which align with our core purpose and work of making business better. \- […]
Protect & Build Better
Are you a mini-Boris? Am I? Are we all?
On climate, on social issues, on using business for good – are we all mini-Borises? Boris’s climate policies and plans (inasmuch as they exist) fall a long way short of Boris’s climate promises. If you’re generous, you may flatter him with a “road to hell paved with good intentions”. If you’re a cynic, you’ll see […]
Guaranteed business failure
You can absolutely do things guaranteed to make your business fail. But unfortunately, there aren’t things you can do which are guaranteed to make your business succeed. It is the same asymmetry at play in Seneca’s sage quote that _”an age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, […]
From the Dalai Lama to Experian – Isabel Kelly’s road from campaigner to business change
What human impact does your business have? Isabel Kelly watched first hand how business influence was used to secure the release of political prisoners. That left her with a lasting impression of the power of business to positively impact human rights which she’s taken with her in her business engagements with Profit with Purpose Ltd […]
How Repc is closing the digital divide while fighting waste – Bevil Williams
To succeed in addressing today’s large challenges, we’ll need collaboration between business, government, the third sector and society. But we also need it translated from big words into a real difference on the ground. In this latest episode of the Karmic Capitalist, Repc’s managing director, Bevil Williams, shows how to do both. Bevil was struck […]