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Business
is not seen as the solution.
I'm a
business
school professor, but I've actually founded, I think, now, four nonprofits.
Even a
business
school professor has thought about it that way.
Well there, I think the answer is very clear: They're in
business.
All wealth is actually created by
business.
Business
creates wealth when it meets needs at a profit.
Only
business
can actually create resources.
Other institutions can utilize them to do important work, but only
business
can create them.
And
business
creates them when it's able to meet a need at a profit.
The resources are overwhelmingly generated by
business.
Business
generates those resources when it makes a profit.
That profit is that small difference between the price and the cost it takes to produce whatever solution
business
has created to whatever problem they're trying to solve.
That's what
business
does when it makes a profit.
Business
should give more.
Business
should be more responsible.
And that's been the path that we've been on in
business.
The conventional wisdom in economics and the view in
business
has historically been that actually, there's a tradeoff between social performance and economic performance.
The conventional wisdom has been that
business
actually makes a profit by causing a social problem.
If
business
pollutes, it makes more money than if it tried to reduce that pollution.
It's too expensive to have a safe working environment, therefore
business
makes more money if they don't have a safe working environment.
That thinking has led to, I think, much of the behavior that we have come to criticize in business, that I come to criticize in
business.
Business
does not profit from causing social problems, actually not in any fundamental sense.
The deeper we get into these issues, the more we start to understand that actually
business
profits from solving from social problems.
It makes the
business
more productive and efficient.
Having a safer working environment actually, and avoiding accidents, it makes the
business
more profitable, because it's a sign of good processes.
I mean, what we've found is actually health of employees is something that
business
should treasure, because that health allows those employees to be more productive and come to work and not be absent.
The deeper work, the new work, the new thinking on the interface between
business
and social problems is actually showing that there's a fundamental, deep synergy, particularly if you're not thinking in the very short run.
So how could we tap into the power of
business
to address the fundamental problems that we face?
You see companies like Cisco that are training so far four million people in I.T. skills to actually, yes, be responsible, but help expand the opportunity to disseminate I.T. technology and grow the whole
business.
There's a fundamental opportunity for
business
today to impact and address these social problems, and this opportunity is the largest
business
opportunity we see in
business.
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