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Dear Friends of HKBN
Reshaping the Business Rulebook with Purpose and 11 Libraries Pledged
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Companies don’t have to be solely about making money. Like Room to Read’s (a charity dedicated to improving literacy worldwide and girls education) Founder John Wood, we at HKBN believe earning profits can be better pursued when a difference-making PURPOSE becomes part of the equation.
Joined by over 400 like-minded senior executives from Hong Kong, we recently co-organised a book launch-cum-charity fundraiser with Goldman Sachs featuring John’s latest work, Purpose, Incorporated: Turning Cause Into Your Competitive Advantage. Expounding what’s possible when a private-sector brain is combined with a non-profit heart (via insights from his book), as well as personal epiphanies from helping over 12 million children, John united and challenged all our invited guests with heaps of inspiration. At HKBN, our corporate PURPOSE is to “Make our Hong Kong a Better Place to Live”, and we believe that having PURPOSE generates PASSION and then PURPOSE + PASSION = PROFITS.
Amazingly, as a result of our charity event, we far exceeded John’s original target of generating 10 libraries in the 1st year of the book’s release. A total of about US$222,000 or 11 libraries was pledged (includes a generous 1-to-1 matching donation by Carl Huttenlocher, Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer of Myriad Asset Management and Room to Read board member, for every dollar contributed)!
If you would like to receive a signed complimentary copy of John’s book, click here (deadline for registration is 28 February; availability on a first-come, first-served basis).
For more about John’s life passion, visit www.roomtoread.org.
Click below to watch a quick video recap of our event.
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Many of our invited guests were so inspired they jumped at the chance to donate and help Room To Read build more libraries.
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Event guests bought multiple copies of John’s book to spark a purpose-thinking transformation with family, friends and colleagues.
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Leafing through to discover the many great ideas and examples of purpose in business.
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John steadies his phone to capture a room full of business executives proudly holding up his latest book.
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Captivated by the talk, guests eagerly inquired about John’s crusade to enhance private-sector purpose. |
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A salute to the event’s success as well as John’s book; pictured above next to John (from left to right) Goldman Sachs Head of Investment Banking Services, Asia ex-Japan and Head of Financial and Strategic Investors Group, Asia Pacific Iain Drayton; HKBN COO and Co-Owner NiQ Lai; Goldman Sachs Chairman of Investment Banking, Hong Kong Stephen Wong; and HKBN Enterprise Solutions COO and Co-Owner Billy Yeung. |
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