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The New Nature of Business
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The New Nature of Business

by Andre Hoffmann, Peter Vanham
August 2024
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
6h 3m
English
Wiley
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About the Authors

André Hoffmann is a Swiss business leader and environmentalist. He believes in business as a force for good, and advocates for a form of capitalism aimed at generating sustainable and inclusive prosperity.

André is the vice-chair of Roche; a member of the board of governors of the World Economic Forum, and a board member at several other businesses and organizations that promote systems change, regenerative practices, and new norms of corporate leadership, including The B Team, SystemIQ, Landbanking Group, and GIST.

As a fourth-generation family representative at Roche, one of the largest and oldest health care companies in the world, André is a guardian of the company's purpose of “doing now what patients need next.” Through his family office, André also makes impact investments in other companies, such as the renewable and locally anchored energy company Innergia.

In addition to his business engagements, André and his wife Rosalie are cofounders of the Hoffmann Institute at INSEAD, the business school of which he is an alum, and InTent, a nonprofit organization that seeks to drive sustainable change in business and society through partnerships between businesses and NGOs.

André is the president of the Fondation Tour du Valat, an institute dedicated to wetlands conservation, and previously served as vice-chair of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). André studied economics at St. Gallen University and holds an MBA from INSEAD. He and his wife live and work ...

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