Ramboll Foundation co-hosts roundtable at New York Climate Week about sustainable capitalism

Wednesday this week, the Ramboll Foundation, Ramboll, and UC Berkeley gathered leaders from global businesses founded in the Nordics and the U.S. to discuss how to best balance profitability with purpose and drive positive social, environmental, and economic growth.

The Ramboll Foundation is also guided by a strong societal purpose of pursuing opportunities to mitigate challenges facing people and society by being a proactive and catalytic philanthropist with a strong legacy of acting decently and responsibly.

At the roundtable, we got to discuss the shift from prioritising shareholder value to embracing stakeholder value, drawing on insights from both Nordic and U.S. businesses. We explored how this shift can best be driven through different business models and organisational structures, making stakeholder value a competitive advantage for attracting customers, talent, and driving successful business growth.

We also examined the cultural factors in the Nordics and U.S. that promote sustainable capitalism, and how these are impacting and incentivising business structures, profit models, and value and performance measures.

Following the roundtable, Ramboll and UC Berkeley will co-publish a thought leadership piece summarising key insights and identifying future areas for discussion and action.