Cambridge Executive Business Insights: Journey to Regeneration, is a new podcast brought to you by Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education. Host, Chris Marquis, is a professor at Cambridge Judge and world-leading expert in responsible business and corporate strategy. The podcast explores how businesses can go beyond sustainability to actively restore and enhance the vitality of the natural and social systems they rely on for long-term success. This is one of the biggest challenges companies face today—but one that will define the future of business.
The podcast brings together leading academics, business leaders, sustainability strategists, and climate champions. The series explores key topics such as the challenges of regenerative business, policy catalysts for change, and what it means to be ‘net positive’. We welcome diverse guests from industry, who have pioneered regenerative practices in their own organisations, with the aim to inspire dialogue and share unique and forward-thinking perspectives on sustainable and responsible business practices.
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About the host:
Christopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Management at Cambridge Judge Business School and a globally recognised scholar in the fields of sustainable business, social innovation, and corporate purpose. He previously held faculty positions at Harvard and Cornell, and earned his PhD from the University of Michigan.
Christopher’s research examines how businesses can drive systems-level change, with a particular focus on stakeholder governance, sustainability strategy, and the emergence of purpose-driven organisations. He is the award-winning author of The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs and Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism.
Find out more about Christopher Marquis’ research >
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Cambridge Executive Business Insights: Journey to Regeneration, is a new podcast brought to you by Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education. Host, Chris Marquis, is a professor at Cambridge Judge and world-leading expert in responsible business and corporate strategy. The podcast explores how businesses can go beyond sustainability to actively restore and enhance the vitality of the natural and social systems they rely on for long-term success. This is one of the biggest challenges companies face today—but one that will define the future of business.
The podcast brings together leading academics, business leaders, sustainability strategists, and climate champions. The series explores key topics such as the challenges of regenerative business, policy catalysts for change, and what it means to be ‘net positive’. We welcome diverse guests from industry, who have pioneered regenerative practices in their own organisations, with the aim to inspire dialogue and share unique and forward-thinking perspectives on sustainable and responsible business practices.
Find out more about Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education >
About the host:
Christopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Management at Cambridge Judge Business School and a globally recognised scholar in the fields of sustainable business, social innovation, and corporate purpose. He previously held faculty positions at Harvard and Cornell, and earned his PhD from the University of Michigan.
Christopher’s research examines how businesses can drive systems-level change, with a particular focus on stakeholder governance, sustainability strategy, and the emergence of purpose-driven organisations. He is the award-winning author of The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs and Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism.
Find out more about Christopher Marquis’ research >
In this episode, Chris Marquis welcomes Ana Costa, Vice President for Sustainability and Corporate Affairs at Natura &Co, a pioneering beauty company rooted in Amazon conservation. They explore how Natura's Amazon origins have shaped their belief that regeneration is essential, not optional. Ana reveals how the company embeds regenerative practices across their entire value chain—supporting over 10,000 small-scale Amazonian producers, restoring biodiversity, and integrating social impact into core business operations. They discuss how Natura's unique approach to connecting local and global impact: investing in traditional knowledge systems and forest economies while influencing international standards through UN partnerships, B Corp networks, and climate coalitions. The company demonstrates how profitability and collective wellbeing can align through net-positive growth models and ecosystem restoration investments. Ana shares Natura's evolution from sustainability to full-spectrum regeneration, including groundbreaking governance innovations like their Integrated Profit and Loss Statement and stakeholder governance commitment. This conversation provides a practical blueprint for companies seeking to align purpose with power, showing how traditional businesses can adopt regenerative practices that restore natural and social systems while driving long-term success.
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Cambridge Executive Business Insights
Cambridge Executive Business Insights: Journey to Regeneration, is a new podcast brought to you by Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education. Host, Chris Marquis, is a professor at Cambridge Judge and world-leading expert in responsible business and corporate strategy. The podcast explores how businesses can go beyond sustainability to actively restore and enhance the vitality of the natural and social systems they rely on for long-term success. This is one of the biggest challenges companies face today—but one that will define the future of business.
The podcast brings together leading academics, business leaders, sustainability strategists, and climate champions. The series explores key topics such as the challenges of regenerative business, policy catalysts for change, and what it means to be ‘net positive’. We welcome diverse guests from industry, who have pioneered regenerative practices in their own organisations, with the aim to inspire dialogue and share unique and forward-thinking perspectives on sustainable and responsible business practices.
Find out more about Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education >
About the host:
Christopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Management at Cambridge Judge Business School and a globally recognised scholar in the fields of sustainable business, social innovation, and corporate purpose. He previously held faculty positions at Harvard and Cornell, and earned his PhD from the University of Michigan.
Christopher’s research examines how businesses can drive systems-level change, with a particular focus on stakeholder governance, sustainability strategy, and the emergence of purpose-driven organisations. He is the award-winning author of The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs and Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism.
Find out more about Christopher Marquis’ research >
