Philanthropy the future of business: Simon McKeon


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The 2011 Australian of the Year, a businessman and philanthropist himself, Simon McKeon promotes corporate philanthropy as he says there is a hunger within the corporate world to use the "profit-making enterprise" of business, for social good.

In a guesting at 774 ABC Melbourne, McKeon stressed that philanthropy need not be in conflict with the push for commercial profit.

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