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Nov 25, 2021

Sustainable brands on Black Friday: What do consumers perceive as authentic?

By Nina Böntgen, Sara Derse and Meike Janssen ◦ 4 min read ◦ The fashion industry has repeatedly come under fire for its negative effects...

Nov 17, 2021

Climate Change and Magical Thinking

By Steen Vallentin ◦ 7 min read ◦ COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, has just ended. It was supposed to be ‘the next...

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Nov 12, 2021

Why we should not call for experts instead of experiments

By Jan Michael Bauer ◦ 3 min read ◦ The recent elections in Germany turned out as the historic loss for conservatives that pollsters have...

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How is Ayn Rand still a thing? From ridicule to serious concern

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Apr 18, 2017

By Steen Vallentin. A recent article in The Washington Post informs us that Donald Trump is affectionate about the works of Ayn Rand (1905-1982),...

If at first you don’t succeed, build, build again

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Apr 11, 2017

By Lara Hale. It is already challenging to make small changes to buildings – painting the window panels, upgrading the kitchen, or even (as...

Who’s responsibility is it, anyway?

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Apr 5, 2017

By Erin Leitheiser. Workers and companies from across the globe each play a part in creating our clothes. Yet, it’s unclear who is responsible...

Big Data: Make Every Voice Count

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Mar 31, 2017

By Michael Etter. How do we determine if an organization behaves in a socially acceptable way? This question is highly relevant and not easy...

The Task At Hand: Facing a Trump America

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Mar 23, 2017

The following post by American CBS MBA student Wynne Lewis is an accompanying piece she wrote recently for the Financial Times’ MBA Blog. Titled...

Digitally Dominant Corporations

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Feb 27, 2017

By Glen Whelan. On Friday the 26th of January, Denmark’s foreign minister Anders Samuelsen announced that Denmark is to appoint the world’s first ‘digital...

US versus Him

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Feb 14, 2017

By Catarina Pessanha Gomes. The past months constituted the culmination of a sequence of events, completely unthinkable even one year ago. These events led...