If at first you don’t succeed, build, build again
By Lara Hale. It is already challenging to make small changes to buildings – painting the window panels, upgrading the kitchen, or even (as...
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Jun 9, 2017
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...
May 30, 2017
Creativity: Africa’s new gold?
By Ana Alacovska and Thilde Langevang. Cocoa, precious minerals and crude oil ceased to be Africa’s only natural resources. Creativity is ‘the oil of...
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May 4, 2017
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...
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The Task At Hand: Facing a Trump America
The following post by American CBS MBA student Wynne Lewis is an accompanying piece she wrote recently for the Financial Times’ MBA Blog. Titled...
Crowdfunding for Sustainability: Creating a platform for sustainable ideas
By Kristian Roed Nielsen. Crowdfunding as phenomenon is strange as it fundamentally boils down to strangers supporting strangers for causes, products or services that...
Don’t Blame 2016. Be 2017.
By Lara Hale. I do not need to inform you about the major events of 2016: Devastation in Syria, Brexit, President-Elect Trump, drug wars...
America, what now? Drawing Up a New Social Contract
By Thomas A. Kochan. The recent US election exposed two major intersecting fault lines in America: the deep divisions across racial, ethnic, and gender...
Let’s not waste the crisis of a Trump Presidency
By Dirk Matten Last Tuesday’s election in the US has left the world in shock. As entertaining, astonishing, at times surely revolting, the Trump...
The Global Compact – Building Bridges, or Barriers?
By Marianne Prytz and Margrete Eilertsen. One of the main purposes of the UN Global Compact (GC) is to include the private sector in...