Fresh Air: An Impact Story
By Lara Anne Hale What do fresh air, canaries, and research all have in common? Academics often humbly conduct and publish research, hoping but...
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Sep 17, 2021
Connecting, Cohering, and Amplifying: The Work of Transformation Catalysts
By Sandra Waddock and Steve Waddell ◦ 4 min read ◦ The shocking 2021 IPCC report on the climate emergency makes clearer than ever that...
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Jun 30, 2021
Social impact bonds in the Nordics: insights from ‘Copenhagen Impact Investing Days 2021’
By Mikkel M. Andersen and Ferran Torres ◦ 5 min read ◦ A social impact bond (SIB) is an innovative model for public service delivery...
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Jun 28, 2021
The Concept of Fragmented Labour Markets
By Janine Leschke and Sonja Bekker ◦ 4 min read ◦ The employment and social impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have been larger on some...
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Building A Better Planet: Toward a Sustainable Post-COVID-19 Society
By Daniel C. Esty Covid-19 has dominated policy thinking across the world for several months – highlighting our vulnerability to unexpected threats, the fundamental...
Small, yet important – and still responsible. Reflections on SMEs and social responsibility in times of Covid-19
By Søren Jeppesen One thing seems to be clear by now – that we are all challenged by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic....
On the Ground: What CSR and sustainability standards fail to address
By Hannah Elliott In the fall of 2019, there was a flurry of news stories in the British media about political events in western...
How the pandemic can reset cities and transform aspects of urban mobility
By Isabel Froes Cities are hard and complex systems. With their defined policies, grids and routes, they offer limited space for experimentation, with a...
The problem with CSR: why companies need to listen to their activist employees
By Luda Svystunova and Verena Girschik The current pandemic has exposed blatant social injustices and inequalities around the world, prompting businesses to face their...
Lobbying and the virus – three trends to take note of
By Dieter Zinnbauer Writing about anything in relation to Covid-19 is rather hopeless. Any attempt to describe current developments has a half-time of 30...
How to make food systems more resilient: Try Behavioural Food Policies
By Lucia A. Reisch The vision of healthy and sustainable food systems that facilitate appropriate food choices by individuals is gaining momentum in practice...