‘Just Sustainabilities’ in a World of Global Value Chains
By Stefano Ponte. What if we used our size and resources to make this country and this earth an even better place for all...
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Sep 25, 2019
Business + purpose = big trouble. But wait, here is one surprising point of agreement
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Reactions to the recent statement by the Business Roundtable that recognizes a regard for stakeholders rather than a narrow focus on...
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Jun 5, 2019
More CEOs Sacked For Ethical Failure Than For Poor Financial Performance
According to a recent study, for the first time more CEOs have been dismissed for ethical lapses than for poor financial performance (in 2018). What is the lesson? I think that we overvalue compliance and undervalue the effects of a corporate culture on sustainable business decisions…
May 22, 2019
Thinking outside the box on corporate tax practice
Corporate tax practice of multinational corporations (MNC) have been the topic of intense debate in the media and among policy makers in recent years. Most recently the news broke that Amazon would pay zero tax on their more than 11 billion profit in 2018. The OECD have coordinated a large project on the topic and involved countries around the world in discussing attempted solutions to the issue of “base erosion and profit shifting” which is the technical term for states finding it challenging to tax the profits of MNCs.
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Droned
by Glen Whelan. A Military Heritage A drone is an unmanned aircraft. Long used to refer to male honeybees – whose main function is...
Is Social Media Redefining the Pursuit of Social Change?
By Daniel Lundgaard. Social media has become a battleground where NGOs with global perspectives, corporations and new digital social movements all fight to shape...
Investigating Emerging Responsible Corporate Tax Practice
By Sara Jespersen. In the absence of an over-arching world tax authority, much agency and power remains in the hands of the corporations operating...
A Story of Poison, Pork and Consumer Protection
By Jan Bauer. Renewal of controversial weed killer supported by Germany despite internal dissent Corporate support seems the only consistency in many decisions What...
Role Reversal: When Business Safeguards the Public Good
By Erin Leitheiser. Earlier this week Patagonia launched what may be corporate America’s most forceful action yet against the government’s assaults on the environment...
Where is the Space for Ethics in Rule Governed Organizations?
By Anna Kirkebæk Gosovic. Imagine that you work in an organization where your choices, your knowledge and your thoroughness in your work could potentially...
Adventures in Materiality. Notes from the first CBS Sustainability Seminar
By Steen Vallentin. On October 31, 2017 the new CSB Sustainability seminar series was launched With a room full of practitioners and academics, the...