Anita Roddick Part 3 (Inspiring Entrepreneurs - Commerce with a Conscience)

My vision, my hope, is simply this: that many business leaders will come to see a primary role of business as incubators of the human spirit. The business of business should not just be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed.

Ever since she started her first Body Shop in 1976, Anita
Roddick was a very unusual businesswoman with very
ambitious goals. In this centrepiece event within Enterprise Week, Dame Anita spoke about the origins of Body Shop; her successes and failures in creating a business with a cause; future opportunities for entrepreneurs creating ethical enterprises; and the role of
women entrepreneurs in driving a social dimension to business.

Part of the Inspiring Entrepreneurs series, in partnership with HSBC, the world's local bank.
Video: Matt Casswell

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