Making it to the World Heritage List: Envisioned and Hidden Effects
By Lotte Thomsen. UNESCO’s World Heritage designation of places around the world has the honorable purpose of taking responsibility. Taking responsibility for the preservation...
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Jun 11, 2018
‘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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Jun 4, 2018
Wonder Tech and the Institution of Gender
by Jeremy Moon “I didn’t realize that I was a woman until I went to the US.” This was the rather arresting comment of...
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May 28, 2018
A Taxonomy of Sustainable Business Model Patterns
By Florian Lüdeke-Freund & Sarah Carroux. In recent years, so-called “sustainable business models” are increasingly gaining in importance in both practice and research.[1] There...
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The Winners and Losers of Reward-based Crowdfunding
By Kristian Roed Nielsen. Proponents of reward-based crowdfunding have touted its emergence as an alternative source of innovation finance as an exciting and democratizing...
After #Metoo: Are We as Equal as We Would Like to Think?
By Sara Louise Muhr & Florence Villesèche. The me too movement was founded in 2006 by Tarana Burke to help survivors of sexual violence,...
How two CBS Alumni are Selling Ugly Fruits and Veggies for a Change
By Carolin Schiemer. Never seen a 3-legged carrot in real life? You might not be alone, because you can’t find crooked fruit and veggies...
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...
Banking on the Future – Driving Responsibility and Sustainability in the Financial Sector
By Lavinia Iosif-Lazar. While the world seems to have moved on from the last financial crisis, one can only wonder if banks and financial...
Challenges & Opportunities in Local Textile Production
By Kirsti Reitan Andersen. Today the progressive digitalization of the economy is shaping the way in which the fashion industry operates. The overarching discourse...
Entrepreneurship: The Solution to Africa’s Youth Unemployment Crisis?
By Thilde Langevang and Katherine V. Gough. Small-scale entrepreneurial activities currently provide livelihoods to a large proportion of the youth population in sub-Saharan Africa...
