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...
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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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Can Your Green Building Rub Off On You?
By Lara Anne Hale. How can the standardization of green default rules influences those living in or working with buildings? Both the green and...
CBS Hosts 6th Biennial International Symposium on Cross-Sector Social Interactions in June 2018
How can business, government, and civil society interact to better address societal challenges such as climate change, immigration, social exclusion, and poverty? The 6th...
Considering Impact on the Road to Sustainability
By Paige Olmsted. Mainstreaming the environment is a key component to achieving sustainability objectives – how organizations account for their existing impact, and assess...
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...
About Meta-MSIs and Private Governance
By Luisa Murphy. What are Meta-Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs)? What is their role and contribution to private governance? How do Meta-MSIs enable the translation of...
A Story of Poison, Pork and Consumer Protection
By Jan Bauer. Renewal of controversial weed killer supported by Germany despite internal dissent Corporate support seems the only consistency in many decisions What...