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THESE COMPANIES BUILD BUSINESSES AROUND SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS— AND THEY DO WELL BY DOING GOOD.

As we sat at a well-worn wooden kitchen table in the leafy Moseley suburb of Birmingham, Judith Yates pointed at a spreadsheet on her MacBook. Each row told a clear story, painstakingly collected by t

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PRESIDENT WORLD BANK AJAY BANGA DIDN’T LIKE THE EXISTING DECOR, SO when he took over as World Bank president he gave his grand two-story corner office a makeover. Old-school leather furniture? Gone. D

It is now widely acknowledged that the UK stockmarket is suffering an existential crisis. UK equity funds have seen 36 months of consecutive outflows that show no sign of slowing. A record £2.7bn fled