How Could the Democrats Get it so Wrong?
By Jette Steen Knudsen. Today I heard Hillary Clinton give her concession speech after one of the most surprising electoral results in US history. ...
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Jun 14, 2019
Are we trying to solve climate change, or are we merely playing the “blame game” on social media with the future of the Earth at stake?
By Daniel Lundgaard. The climate change debate is something that is on the minds of most people these days. The most recent elections in...
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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On CSR in ship recycling and textile sector supply chain management
By Karin Buhmann. Dansk version nedenfor/Danish version below Over the past weeks, news has emerged that Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, which is...
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...
The Responsibility to Disrupt?
By Glen Whelan. Project Breakthrough: A New Initiative from the United Nations Global Compact Through its Global Compact, John Ruggie’s special representative work on...
Bold Businesses wanted for transformative Deep Retrofit – The CBS Student and Innovation House
By Kristjan Jespersen and Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen. We live in times of change. Society is quickly evolving in every aspect, facing us with...
UN Global Compact Expels More Participants than New Participants Join
By Andreas Rasche. In October 2015, the UN Global Compact, the UN’s flagship initiative for corporate responsibility and sustainability, has expelled 130 firms for...