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By Making It on 31 October, 2012
Professor Klaus M. Leisinger, chair of the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, explores some of the issues at the intersection between industry and health.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to medicines, Africa, Arogya Parivar, basic health rights, counterfeit medicines, CSR, generics, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, global health, intellectual property, Klaus M. Leisinger, LDCs, Making It, malaria, MDGs, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Millennium Development Goals, non-governmental organizations, Novartis, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, pharmaceutical industry, public health resources, research-based pharmaceutical corporations, sanitation, UN Global Compact, Working Group on Access to Essential Medicines, World Health Organization Essential Medicines List, World Health Report
By Making It on 20 April, 2012
Morten Albæk introduces the first global consumer label identifying corporations and products made with wind energy.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged alternative energy, Bloomberg, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, brands, clean energy, consumer label, Corporate Renewable Energy Index, corporations, Droga5, energy, Global Consumer Wind Study, Global Wind Energy Council, green energy, LEGO Group, Making It, Morten Albæk, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, renewable energy, renewable energy goals, stakeholders, UN Global Compact, Vestas, wind, wind energy, wind farms, wind power, wind turbine, WindMade, WWF
By Making It on 30 November, 2011
Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women, explains how to advance the aim of gender equality, and what obstacles prevent women from accessing greater economic opportunities
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Africa, Asia, credit, dependency, development, economic empowerment of women, economic opportunities, employment and entrepreneurial activities, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, gender equality, gender gaps, gender issue, globalization, goods and services, government, Hilary Clinton, human rights, ILO, International Labour Organization, livelihoods, macroeconomic policies, Making It magazine, McKinsey, Michelle Bachelet, policymaking, poverty, poverty reduction, prevent women, private sector development, rio+20, social and labour market obstacles, social challenges, structural inequalities, UN Global Compact, UN Women, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, World Ecnomic Forum
By Making It on 28 July, 2011
Nestlé’s Paul Bulcke recognizes success depends on creating value for everyone – from farmers to consumers – and discusses how to achieve it
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged advice, agribusiness, agriculture, ambition, Brazil, business, child labour, civil society, community involvement, consumers, creating shared value, CSV, deforestation footprint, doing business, economic growth, economic reality, employment, environment, food security, future, global export, globalization, Harvard, HIV, hope, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, interconnectivity, interdependence, investment, issue 6, local government, Making It magazine, Michael Porter, micronutrients, milk, mutual value, Nestlé, nutrition, Paul Bulcke, poverty, product strategy, roads, rural development, social benefits, societal advancement, South Africa, supply chain, sustainability, sustainable business practices, UN, UN Global Compact, UNIDO, United Nations, unwelcome, vaccines, values, water, water management, Water Mandate, Water Resources Group, water treatment systems, working together, World Economic Forum
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