Fake news and the future of the truth
By Jan Michael Bauer At least since the last U.S. elections in 2016, the issue of “fake news” is frequently debated in the public...
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Feb 25, 2021
Portfolios at risk of Deforestation
How can financial investors better understand underlying risks and act accordingly By Amanda Wildhaber, Dominik Wingeier, Jessica Brügger, Nico Meier, and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen...
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Feb 23, 2021
Under the radar: How companies can redefine what we consider socially responsible
By Verena Girschik ◦ 2 min read ◦ Notwithstanding promises of win-wins and synergies, we have good reasons to question whether companies address social problems in...
Feb 19, 2021
Who really cares about the SDGs when it comes to nobody’s responsibility?
By Suhyon Oh ◦ 2 min read ◦ The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the common goals of global development as we all agreed. Since its...
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Why consultations on large projects should matter to citizens as well as companies
By Karin Buhmann, Sanne Vammen Larsen and Anna-Sofie Hurup Skjervedal. This article is based on their previously written piece for the Centre for Business...
Female entrepreneurs & reward-based crowdfunding: Offline inequality and online equality?
By Kristian Roed Nielsen Traditional sources of entrepreneurial finance tend to favor men, while female entrepreneurs are often bypassed. Thielst, G.H. (2019), for example,...
SDG 17 check in: cross-sector partnerships from the beneficiary perspective?
By Anne Vestergaard, Luisa Murphy, Mette Morsing and Thilde Langevang Have you ever wondered how SDG 17 is, in fact, delivering on its promise?...
Better than nothing but still “exSASBerating”!
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Why a powerful push by the world’s top asset manager towards more sustainability reporting still falls pretty short. Great news BlackRock,...
We can’t better the world at once. So let’s do it together!
By Julia Köhler Sustainability – a concept that accompanies us every day: whether it is sustainable consumption, sustainable nutrition, sustainable traveling or sustainable management....
Teaching (and doing) anthropology in a business school
By Matthew Archer For a while now, the discipline of anthropology has studied relatively marginalized or dispossessed people and communities, often in developing countries...
When business is not as usual – why companies should engage with humanitarian crises
By Verena Girschik and Jasper Hotho As evidenced in places such as Syria and Yemen, humanitarian crises are becoming ever more complex (OCHA, 2017a). In...