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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. The little Prince

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In search of Companies Eudaimonia

da Marco Venturelli 3 November 2021

This week Finance and Happiness (eudaimonia – a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous) met again in the PhD study of Valentina Minutiello who surprised the audience with the syllogism: “if humang beings, accordinding to Aristotele, want and need to achieve eudaimonia and companies are made by and for human beings, then the companies […]

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The NET POSITIVE MANIFESTO

da Marco Venturelli 22 August 2021

HBR confirms its leadership in proposing ideas for a better world Both practically and morally, corporate leaders can no longer sit on the sidelines of major societal shifts or treat human and planetary issues as “someone else’s problem.” For their own good, they must play an active role in addressing our biggest shared challenges. The […]

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Reorienting IMPACT evaluation

da Marco Venturelli 16 January 2021

Practitioners and academics have been using different terms to describe investments in the sustainability context. The latest inflationary term is impact investments—investments that focus on real-world changes in terms of solving social challenges and/or mitigating ecological degradation. At the core of this definition is an emphasis on transformational changes. However, the term impact investment is often […]

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Our good health: economic fuel or core value?

da Marco Venturelli 16 January 2021

The value of good health cannot however be defined only in monetary terms: it comprises one of the cultural backbones of our European civilisation, one of the mainstays of European wellbeing. And in a Europe much more interconnected since the Lisbon treaty, Europeans enjoy freedom of movement to live, work and travel—and use healthcare resources along […]

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Finance chiefs face pressure to get to grips with sustainability

da Marco Venturelli 16 January 2021

In the article:“Most are in the traditional CFO role, maximising shareholder value and profit, and the new profile is shifting to a broader stakeholder model focused on establishing a sustainable economy,” mr. Haag says. This inevitably expands the role of the finance function. “Technology and decarbonisation are here to stay,” says Arabesque’s Mr Kell. “CFOs […]

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A once in a century boom ahead of us?

da Marco Venturelli 16 January 2021

Are you planning your 2021 #freshstart?Dos and Donts from the post Spanish flu are presented in the article.Where the savings of the past lockdown months will be spent or invested? A century ago, the world finally put the 1918-20 influenza behind it. One of history’s deadliest epidemics, following one of its deadliest armed conflicts, gave way […]

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Adam Smith’s Underappreciated Wisdom on Benevolence, Happiness, and Kindness

da Marco Venturelli 3 January 2021

The great Scottish moral philosopher, political economy pioneer, and Enlightenment maven Adam Smith (June 16, 1723–July 17, 1790) is best known for authoring the 1776 masterwork The Wealth of Nations — a foundational text of behavioral economics two centuries before behavioral economics existed. It originated the famous “invisible hand” metaphor for how socially beneficial outcomes can be traced back to the self-interested actions […]

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Steven Pinker’s case for optimism

da Marco Venturelli 3 January 2021

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress. By Steven Pinker. Viking; 576 pages; $35. Allen Lane; £25. TO ANYONE who reads a newspaper, this can seem a miserable world. Syria is still at war. Another lunatic has gone on a gun rampage in an American school. The tone of political debate can rarely have been […]

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Embankment Project for Inclusive Capitalism

da Marco Venturelli 3 January 2021

The Embankment Project for Inclusive Capitalism (the “Embankment Project”) represents an important opportunity to transform the way businesses measure and report on the value they create for stakeholders. After three years of meeting at the Conferences on Inclusive Capitalism in London and NYC, it has become clear that there will not be progress toward Inclusive Capitalism unless […]

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The Happy CFO through happy lens

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Finance, Sustainability and Happiness

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Learning about Happiness from the Roman Emperors

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What Finance Professionals can learn from Cricket Players

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How an Italian CFO can explain “living in a leaning tower” to his HQs

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Happy Finance and becoming Strategic Business Partners (1/2)

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Freedom or Tiranny?

In search of Companies Eudaimonia

The NET POSITIVE MANIFESTO

Reorienting IMPACT evaluation

Our good health: economic fuel or core value?

Finance chiefs face pressure to get to grips with sustainability

A once in a century boom ahead of us?

Adam Smith’s Underappreciated Wisdom on Benevolence, Happiness, and Kindness

Steven Pinker’s case for optimism

Embankment Project for Inclusive Capitalism

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