Professor Alex Edmans on How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose And Profit

In this episode, I talk with Professor Alex Edmans from the London Business School. He’s one of the world’s leading academics on company purpose, social value and profits. In fact, he’s just come out with a book on the subject called “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”. We discuss: 1. Is a company’s sole purpose to deliver profits? 2. Creating the “growing the pie” mindset 3. Is the financial sector useful? 4. Does ESG work? 5. How companies should deal