# Profit’s not always the point

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@BCG Singapore
- Speaker: Harish Manwani
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Earth and environment, Business and management
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/harish_manwani_profit_s_not_always_the_point)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

You might not expect the chief operating officer of a major global corporation to look too far beyond either the balance sheet or the bottom line. But Harish Manwani, COO of Unilever, makes a passionate argument that doing so to include value, purpose and sustainability in top-level decision-making is not just savvy, it's the only way to run a 21st century business responsibly.

## Lectures

1. [Profit’s not always the point](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/harish_manwani_profit_s_not_always_the_point/f539bf468b24), 8 min (TED's player)