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 >
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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 >
Host Christopher Marquis speaks with Andrea Illy, Chairman of illycaffè and founder of the Regenerative Society Foundation, in this latest episode. As a third-generation leader of the iconic Italian coffee brand, Andrea shares how illycaffè is evolving from sustainability toward regeneration—embedding principles of beauty, quality, and shared value into its business model. With coffee as the starting point, Andrea explains how the company invests in soil health, farmer livelihoods, scientific research, and education across the global South. He highlights illycaffè’s long-term commitment to biodiversity, carbon neutrality, and smallholder resilience, showing how regeneration can be both an ecological and economic imperative. Andrea also tells the story of illycaffè’s work in Brazil, where regenerative practices like agroforestry and reduced agrochemicals have restored ecosystems while elevating coffee quality—producing award-winning beans that prove environmental renewal and excellence can go hand in hand.
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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 >
