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What if businesses didn’t just reduce harm, but become regenerative?

Laurence Lehmann-Ortega explores how companies can move beyond sustainability and adopt regenerative business models that restore ecosystems, strengthen communities, and build long-term resilience

3 minutes
Key findings
  • Regeneration goes beyond sustainability: businesses must restore and strengthen the systems they depend on.
  • Seven attributes define regenerative maturity, from system-level impact to long-term governance.
  • Seven business archetypes show how regeneration already happens in practice across sectors and regions.
  • Regeneration is a strategic journey, not a fixed label, that companies can progressively develop over time.

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Laurence Lehmann-Ortega
Meet the Author
Prof. Laurence Lehmann-Ortega
Professor (Education Track) - Strategy and Business Policy

Laurence Lehmann Ortega's research focuses on strategic innovation, especially in incumbent firms in mature and low-tech industries. In this context, she deals with business model innovation as a response to sustainable development constraints and with its consequences in multinationalfirms, in...

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