How Businesses Can Profit with Purpose
By Robert Strand. Money helps us meet our basic needs, but what about our need for meaning? Businesses will profit — not just financially...
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Jun 30, 2022
Environmentally sound and financially rewarding? Key findings from an exploratory study on the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)
By Milena Bar, Ottilia Henningsson, & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ The Science-Based Targets initiative aligns firms’ emission reduction targets with a...
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Jun 27, 2022
Constructing Social Portfolios: A Quantitative versus Screening Approach
By Alina Hofer, Lea Katharina Kasper & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ When we talk about ESG, one could argue that there...
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Jun 24, 2022
Corporate social responsibility and societal governance
By Jeremy Moon ◦ 3 min read ◦ Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine reminds us that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is both a reflection of the times...
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Malcolm McIntosh – Tribute to an Academic Entrepreneur
By Andreas Rasche. Malcolm McIntosh passed away on 7 June 2017. We lost, as Sandra Waddock recently remarked, an intellectual shaman – someone who...
Reward-based Crowdfunding for Sustainable Entrepreneurs: A Practitioner’s Guide
By Kristian Roed Nielsen. In my last blog post, I offered some initial insights and ideas into how crowdfunding could be employed to support...
Creativity: Africa’s new gold?
By Ana Alacovska and Thilde Langevang. Cocoa, precious minerals and crude oil ceased to be Africa’s only natural resources. Creativity is ‘the oil of...
If at first you don’t succeed, build, build again
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?
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...
The Task At Hand: Facing a Trump America
The following post by American CBS MBA student Wynne Lewis is an accompanying piece she wrote recently for the Financial Times’ MBA Blog. Titled...
CSR is Dead. Long Live CSR
By Andreas Rasche, Mette Morsing, and Jeremy Moon. We – Andreas Rasche, Mette Morsing, and Jeremy Moon – just edited an international textbook entitled...