How Businesses Can Profit with Purpose
By Robert Strand. Money helps us meet our basic needs, but what about our need for meaning? Businesses will profit — not just financially...
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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.
May 13, 2019
Who cares about sustainable fashion?
By Erin Leitheiser. Can ever-higher rates of consumption ever truly be sustainable? Consideration of up-and-coming consumers will be key to making progress in the...
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Malcolm McIntosh – Tribute to an Academic Entrepreneur
By Andreas Rasche. Malcolm McIntosh passed away on 7 June 2017. We lost, as Sandra Waddock recently remarked, an intellectual shaman – someone who...
In Tribute: Malcolm McIntosh
‘Have fun and laugh. I had a ball. Sorry to go early. Laugh a lot, it oxygenizes the brain just as well as...
Gender Matters: ‘There’s nothing so practical as a good theory’
By Kate Grosser. The centrality of gender issues to the global challenges of poverty, development and environmental sustainability, among others on the CSR agenda,...
When diversity is everyone’s business
By Jannick Friis Christensen. In April, CBS celebrated not only its centenary but also how diverse the business school has become over the years...
CSR and the role of business in Areas of Limited Statehood
By Sameer Azizi. The global search for new markets has pushed corporations to operate in national settings in the Global South that differ tremendously...
What if unethical behavior is just matter out of place?
By Anna Kirkebæk Gosovic. It’s always puzzled me why it is that we might share words and concepts but that the meaning we fill...
Business integrity, ideas and developments in the ASEAN way
By Luisa Murphy. As a former employee of the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, I worked on corruption cases involving companies accused...