Welcome to Transforming Business!
Transforming Business is an innovative research and development project in the University of Cambridge.
New book!
Transforming Capitalism: Entrepreneurship
and the Renewal of Thrift
by Dr Peter S Heslam, Director of Transforming Business, University of Cambridge
This is the project's latest resource on the role of faith and entrepreneurship in creating a better world. The global economic crisis has confirmed the suspicion of many that business is irredeemably selfish and greedy. Against this background, Peter Heslam highlights the potential of transforming capitalism for the good of the planet and its people. Only thirty-two pages long, the book is designed for busy people, taking only around ninety minutes to read.
Commendations from eminent business leaders include the following:
'A compelling and timely call to a thrift-based capitalism that is truly transformative.' Dr Kim Tan, international entrepreneur and co-founder of theTransformational Business Network
'Healthy economies require entrepreneurship and investment. This booklet presents a cogent and lively argument that thrift provides both with a powerful stimulus.' Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, former Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Anglo-American
'Read this booklet to discover how thrift stimulates human flourishing.' Prof Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, CEO, The Roosevelt Group
To order your postage-free copy from the publisher Grove Books for only £3.95, go to the publisher's website here.
Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
Transforming Business analyzes and catalyzes the contribution of Christianity and entrepreneurship to human and environmental well-being. Its focus is on enterprise solutions to poverty.
We are interested in practical solutions – "what works?"
In finding answers to this question, we pay particular attention to the role of faith in building social capital – the institutional, relational, moral and spiritual aspects of society.
Social scientists increasingly agree that social capital is fundamental to business success, economic development and well-being, and that Christianity is one of its key contributors.
Through innovative research and instruction we aim to channel the rising concern about global poverty in fresh directions that will deliver tangible improvement and genuine opportunities for people in poverty, based on a biblical, holistic approach to what it means to be human.
We use robust, creative, and multi-disciplinary thinking, along with practical models and case studies, to discover and disseminate the most effective means by which Christian faith integrates with enterprise to provide sustainable routes out of poverty.
Located at Cambridge University, the project has close links with the divinity faculty, where its director is based, and with faculty at the university’s business school. It also enjoys strong relations with the real worlds of church and business, both locally and globally.
The aims of the project are summarized in the adjacent column.
For more information on the project, visit the "About" section.
Support Transforming Business
Join us in combating poverty through the convergence of faith and enterprise!
This project is entirely dependent on the support of individuals – it receives no other funding. Donations are made to the Cambridge Foundation, which has charitable status.
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