In June, Jay Jakub, Senior Director, Mars, Incorporated / Catalyst, presented on the Economics of Mutuality at Googleplex, the corporate headquarters complex of Google in Silicon Valley, California…
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In June, Bruno Roche, Mars Chief Economist and Catalyst Managing Director, gave the keynote address at IÉSEG School of Management's 2025 Vision Convention. Over 300 students, faculty members and…
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Kenya’s President, Uhuru Kenyatta, recently met with Victoria Mars, Board member and immediate former Chairperson of Mars, Incorporated at State House, Nairobi. He reaffirmed his government’s support for the company’s…
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On May 7th, 2018, Catalyst Director of Education, Cedric Bachellerie moderated a panel in Cascais, Portugal for the Horasis Global Meeting. Launched in 2016, the Horasis Global Meeting…
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In September 2017, Bruno Roche and Jean-Christophe Flatin represented Mars Catalyst and Mars at the inaugural Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York City. The initiative aims…
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In March 2018, a report was published by the Ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire, de la Justice, and de l'Economie et des Finances du Travail, which put forward the case…
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Leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But, Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub offer a more complete form of capitalism…
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The introduction of the environmental legislation in China negatively impacted on the profitability of the crystal business. These significant changes to the crystal production industry...
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Organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) is an evolving concept concerning how and why people contribute positively to their organisations beyond defined work roles; a concept...
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Increasing smallholder farmers’ yields has proven difficult and sophisticated industries have developed in order to address this problem. This study reports on the insights gained from...
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Social capital is a concept that captures ways that human relations support productive activities. The concept had a meteoric rise in academia during the 1990s and has been picked...
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This paper provides an overview of the Bloom micro-distribution programme, an initiative spearheaded by Mars Catalyst and Mars Wrigley Confectionery Philippines that engages...
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For this briefing document we review the organizational fairness literature with a focus on the supply chain context. Supply chain fairness is an under-researched topic and we seek...
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Psychological ownership (PO) can be an important tool for organizations to encourage productivity and certain desirable employee behaviours. In the organizational literature, PO is...
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In 2013, in collaboration with Wrigley East Africa, Catalyst launched the Maua business pilot to provide a new route to market for Wrigley products. The pilot aimed to engage consumers…
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Although M&S’s own operations have an impact on the environment, its biggest impact comes through the products it sells and the way in which those products are used. Rising raw...
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E-waste is the world’s fastest-growing waste stream, with a relatively low recycling rate overall (approximately 15% globally). 2 Rapid technology innovation and ever-shortening...
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Bel Access created Sharing Cities (SC) with the ambition to expand the number of consumers, particularly those at the Middle of the Pyramid in emerging markets. SC has...
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About 300,000 children across the country, 55,000 of them Bedouin children, are eligible to receive a hot meal under the Israeli Food Security Act of 2004 [1]. Efforts by private external...
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Lost and discarded fishing gear, particularly nets, makes up 10% of the world’s marine waste. Old and discarded nets can last for centuries and cause “ghost fishing,” whereby they...
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