Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Episode 3 explores the next stage of leading sustainable corporations, focusing on how businesses can embed sustainability into everyday operations, decision-making, and organisational culture. The episode offers practical insight into responsible leadership, long-term value creation, and the challenges of turning ambition into measurable impact.

Episode 2 continues the discussion on secondary markets and the private equity challenge, exploring how different investors view liquidity, valuation, and exit opportunities. The conversation looks at continuation vehicles, GP and LP incentives, market discounts, and whether secondaries create genuine value or shift existing risks across the private equity ecosystem.

Episode 2 continues the conversation on leading sustainable corporations, exploring how leaders can turn sustainability principles into practical business decisions. The episode looks at responsible strategy, organisational change, and how companies can create lasting value while responding to today’s environmental and social challenges.

An insightful discussion on how corporations can lead responsibly in the face of climate, social, and economic challenges. This episode explores the principles of sustainable business, the role of leadership in driving meaningful change, and how organisations can create long-term value for both shareholders and society.

In this episode, weexplore whether secondary markets can solve some of private equity’s biggest challenges. The discussion examines illiquidity, GP-led transactions, continuation vehicles, valuation discounts, IPO stagnation, and the changing role of institutional and retail investors in the secondaries market.

A lively debate on whether secondaries offer a flexible alternative exit route, or simply mask deeper pressures within private equity.