"Motivation is often equally as much about doing good for society by giving back"
Motivation is often equally as much about doing good for society by giving back says IEPC's Jane Khedair
“The focus of the founders is different from 15 years ago, when they were purely commercially minded and cared about securing an exit with a decent valuation. Now their motivation is often equally as much about doing good for society by giving back."
This is the view of LBS' Jane Khedair, executive director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital (IEPC) whose views are given in a recent FT article, Business schools incubate a generation of ethical entrepreneurs (FT , 12 February 2025).
The article examines how business schools and their incubators are playing a growing role in nurturing students' ethical start-up ambitions.
Nick Doman (LBS alumnus, MIM 2018), the co-founder of Ocean Bottle, is also featured in the FT .
Nick, and his fellow LBS alumnus and co-founder of Ocean Bottle, Will Pearson (MIM 2018), have been regularly featured in LBS' Think magazine (see Ocean Bottle: a planet-positive success story and Cleaning up the Oceans). Ocean Bottle, a company that uses recycled plastics for its thermos flask products, has collected the equivalent of one billion plastic bottles that would have otherwise entered the world’s oceans.
IEPC's mission is to inspire entrepreneurs and private capital investors to pursue innovation and impact society by equipping them with the tools, expertise and insights to drive growth.
