Need an SDG Solution? Hack it.
By Lara Anne Hale. November 16 – 18, 2017 marked the beginning of a student-driven innovation era at Copenhagen Business School. The Student Innovation...
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Feb 18, 2019
The year of corporate acting—does business need a new approach to palm oil?
By Amanda Williams, Steve Kennedy and Gail Whiteman. 2018 went down as the ‘year of corporate caring’ about the palm oil controversy. A banned...
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Dec 25, 2018
Youth Perspective to the Sustainability Agenda
By Charlotte Piller, Luna Stæhr Andersen and Mikkel Mezer Morgensen. If not now, when? As the days get shorter and the year slowly draws...
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Nov 27, 2018
Corporate contributions to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
The days of corporate greening are over. Many companies kicked off their sustainability strategies decades ago by picking the low-hanging fruit. But there is nothing left within arm’s reach to pick. Now we expect companies big and small to demonstrate their contribution to broader societal and environmental sustainability challenges beyond firm boundaries.
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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...
Another Inconvenient Truth: “Win-Win” Only Won’t Transform Our World
By Katherine Richardson. A green growth project can contribute to sustainable development, but this is by no means a given Characterized by a singular...
The Risks of Intuitive Thinking in Environmentally Friendly Clothing Consumption
By Kristian Steensen Nielsen & Wencke Gwozdz. Clothing behaviors might be well-intended, but they do not necessarily reduce environmental impact Environmentally friendly clothing in one...
Seeing Like a Standard: Sustainable Palm Oil and the Coasian Challenge
By Kristjan Jespersen & Caleb Gallemore. Approximate reading time: 3-4 minutes. Go to any supermarket and you’ll see labels, so many labels. Some of them seem...
Dirty Oil or Green Energy in the Faroe Islands?
By Árni Johan Petersen. These are the stories from the two divided camps in the Faroe Islands – please give your take on this...
Universities – Front Runners or Falling Behind The Green Transition?
By Louise Kofod Thomsen. Universities are knowledge generators, facilitators of innovation and play a key role in shaping the mindsets and developing the skills...
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...