Future in Sound

Alex Robart is the Worldwide Strategy Leader for Energy & Sustainability at Microsoft. He guides Microsoft’s viewpoint on energy and sustainability, drives Business Unit strategy, and works with customers to develop transformation and sustainability strategies. 

In this episode (recorded at COP26) Alex shares his insight on climate leadership, tying strategy to sustainability, carbon offsets, and much more.

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Related links: 

Bill Gates - How To Avoid A Climate Disaster
Microsoft Net Zero commitments (Microsoft, 2022)
Microsoft Carbon Removal (Microsoft, 2021)

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Re:Co founder and host, Jenn Wilson shares her highlights from series one of The Future In Sound podcast and explains how it’s helped her clarify her thinking on three main topics: business purpose, tools for strategic decision making, and system-level trends. 

Thank you to all of our guests from series one for your invaluable insights, including Dr. Sarah Kaplan, Professor Colin Mayer, Amory Lovins, Dr. Noelle Selin, Charmian Love, Saadia Madsbjerg, Jason Mitchell, Gillian Tett, and Anywhere Sikochi. 

Stay tuned at the end of the episode to find out what’s in store for series two, coming early 2022!

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Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School where he teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course to MBA students. 

In this episode, Siko shares his insights on the limitations of ESG ratings, how ESG trends are viewed by leaders in Africa, the kernels of wisdom he aims to share with his business students, and much more.

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Related links: 

Read the paper Anywhere Sikochi co-authored alongside Dane M. Christensen & George Serafeim here: Why is Corporate Virtue in the Eye of the Beholder? The Case of ESG Ratings 

Sakis Kotsantonis and George Serafeim - Four Things No One Will Tell You About ESG Data

Mitch Albom - Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

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Gillian Tett is the Co-Founder of Moral Money and Chair of the Editorial Board and Editor-at-Large of the Financial Times (US). In this episode, she discusses how tools from anthropology can help leaders see future trends more clearly, avoid unnecessary shocks, and much more.

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Related links: 

Gillian Tett, Anthro-Vision 

Karen Ho, Liquidated, An Ethnography of Wall Street 

Pierre Bourdieu

Joseph Henrich, The Weirdest People in the World

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Jason Mitchell is Co-Head of Responsible Investment at Man Group. In this episode, Jason discusses the definition of Responsible Investment, common misconceptions about ESG, the frontier of ESG data analytics, the role of regulation in this nascent practice and much more.

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Saadia is a global leader in the field of sustainable and impact investing. She and Judith Rodin co-authored the book “Making Money Moral: How a New Wave of Visionaries is Linking Purpose and Profit”.  In this episode, Saadia discusses the drivers of recent momentum in sustainable investment, the importance of considering long term ‘resilience’ when investing and much more.

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Charmian Love is the Co-Founder and Chair of B Lab UK, where she supports the growth of B Corporations across the UK (and beyond) and is Co-Chair of B Lab’s Global Climate Taskforce where she is a member of the UNFCCC’s Marrakesh Partnership. Charmian discusses practical approaches to broadening points of view on Boards of Directors, what makes B Corporations different and much more.

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 Dr. Noelle Selin is an Associate Professor at MIT with the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. Her research uses atmospheric chemistry modelling to inform decision-making on air pollution, climate change and hazardous substances such as mercury and persistent organic pollutants. Noelle discusses the cutting edge of climate science, how she analyses social and environmental factors in her research and much more.

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 Physicist Amory Lovins is co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Rocky Mountain Institute; energy advisor to major firms and governments in 70+ countries; author of 31 books and over 700 papers; and designer of superefficient buildings, factories, and vehicles. Time magazine has named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people. Amory discusses the art of thinking differently, future trends in energy, how to unify people with diverse interests to solve shared problems and much more.

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 Best-selling author of Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good, leader of the British Academy’s Future of the Corporation Programme and professor of Management at the University of Oxford, Dr. Colin Mayer discusses how corporate purposes continue to change, how employee clarity on a company’s ‘north star’ can create competitive advantage, why regulation is no substitute for corporate ethics and much more. 

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