Impact
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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.
And government has many ways in which it could
impact
the willingness and the ability of companies to compete in this way.
The
impact
on the soul is hardly visible, but the damage can be there for life.
But I can't give design arguments for that that will have as much
impact
as the arguments that I've learned from the economists, the epidemiologists and the environmentalists.
There are only so many people in this country at any given time, and we can choose to live where perhaps we would have a lighter
impact.
So just to wrap up, I'd like to actually say that being able to work in this sort of field, all of us that work in this field that's not only super-exciting science, but also has the potential to
impact
on patients, however big or small they are, is really a great privilege.
Like many people here, well, I want to maximize my personal
impact
in the world, so I'm going to explain why I joined the team there.
So I'm going to talk a little bit about what business can do and what a business like IKEA can do, and we have a sustainability strategy called "people and planet positive" to help guide our business to have a positive
impact
on the world.
Why would we not want to have a positive
impact
on the world as a business?
In these cities, the
impact
of architecture in people's lives of today and tomorrow changes the local communities and economies at the same speed as the buildings grow.
It has not had the
impact
that these other companies have had.
And they make such a difference, not only to those lives immediately around the bridge, but the
impact
of these bridges is huge, and it spreads over the whole community, far, far away.
So the first step is to inspire young people, and in that room, Mohamed's presence had a really profound
impact
on the youth in that room.
They've thought about working for an NGO, working for the government, but his story, his innovation, really had a strong
impact
on them.
It's about creating a social
impact.
These young entrepreneurs are having a tremendous
impact
in their cities.
What we found is that in very remote areas, these droughts are having a big negative
impact
on tropical forests.
Or, how to deal with a large species like elephants, which may, if their populations get too large, have a negative
impact
on the ecosystem and on other species.
When we saw this, we felt that this is something that can have significant
impact
in the world.
Well, we chose to do this one not because it's easy, but because it can have amazing
impact.
The idea is called the social
impact
bond.
Now, the social
impact
bond is simply saying, if we can get the government to agree, that we can create a contract where they only pay if it worked.
So in March 2010, we signed the first social
impact
bond with the Ministry of Justice around Peterborough Prison.
Social
impact
bonds work great for any area where there is at the moment very expensive provision that produces poor outcomes for people.
There are now 13 social
impact
bonds in Britain, and amazing levels of interest in this idea all over the world.
We know about man's
impact
on the ocean in terms of fishing and overfishing, but we don't really know much about what's happening underneath the water.
Well, the
impact
energy depends on the square of the velocity times its mass, and the mass depends on how big it is and what it's made of.
So let me give you a few examples of how these brilliant machines work, and some of the examples may seem trivial, some are clearly more profound, but all of them are going to have a very powerful
impact.
This results in eight billion dollars in costs for the airline industry globally every year, not to mention the
impact
on all of us: stress, inconvenience, missed meetings as we sit helplessly in an airport terminal.
And I know that many of you will be concerned about the
impact
that innovation might have on jobs.
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