Written by Martina Mok, SVIHK Head of Programmes & Partnerships One decade ago, the Creating Shared Value movement was born at Harvard Business School, spurred by a few changemakers’ vision for a radical new way to mobilise the power of business toward society’s...
On 5 October, Paul Polman, the former CEO of Unilever, released his new book on how courageous companies can become “net positive.” How timely that this coincided with the ReThink 2021 conference, where we reconvened with more than 2,200 of Hong...
Our Experiments to Overcome 8 Barriers to Social Innovation in Hong Kong Written by Martina Mok Are you an impatient optimist? I am, definitely. I first heard this phrase from Dan Epstein of Unreasonable Group at a talk in 2019, but turns out Bill and Melinda...
Written by Martina Mok In recent weeks, as the world has learned to cope with the pandemic and started to look ahead to long-term recovery, we all keep hearing about the need to “build back better”, increase resilience and not go back to the way things were. Easy to...
Some people think Hong Kong can be a hard-nosed, apathetic place on the surface. But look a little deeper and you’ll find many people here have a generous capacity to “care” and design creative solutions to complex problems. That much is clear from our daily...
By Martina Mok, SVIHK Three months ago, I moved back from New York, quite unexpectedly, to help build Shared Value Initiative Hong Kong, after one fateful coffee meeting. Coming from six years in public relations, this new role is vastly different and yet makes...
As part of our efforts to increase understanding of shared value, SVIHK recently hosted our first public talk on the topic of impact investing, green finance and ethical screening in partnership with The Executive Centre, to illustrate examples of and opportunities...
