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Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmer rituals in Ghana. When culture and worldviews clash, even a well-planned initiative to transfer knowledge can get bogged down and fail in the key stages of relationship-building and information exchange. Fascinating new research by Professors Anca Metiu, ESSEC Business School, and Mira Slavova, Warwick Business School, draws upon the farming communities of rural Ghana to highlight the role of rituals in effectively facilitating knowledge transfer.

Rituals and Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmers in Ghana

January 26, 2023

Integrity: A blueprint for making it strategic, a CoBS Research Pod based on the work of Prof. Daniel Malan, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. Related research: The Rise and Role of the Chief Integrity Officer: Leadership imperatives in an ESG-driven world, World Economic Forum White Paper 2022.

Integrity: A blueprint for making it strategic

January 24, 2023

Bringing Business and Sustainability to Hopeful High School Students. When a top international business school gives high school hopefuls business and sustainability expertise: The ESSEC Asia-Pacific Business and Sustainability Case Competition

Bringing Business and Sustainability to Hopeful High School Students

January 19, 2023

Mothers and daughters in France and Japan: Who influences who when buying clothes? A daughter is often complimented about how she looks a lot like her mother. But, in today’s day and age, is it just the daughters capturing their Mum’s looks or the Mum’s taking in their daughter's style? Digging deeper from a cross-cultural perspective, Professors Elodie Gentina, IÉSEG School of Management, Kun-Huang Huarng, Feng Chia University, and Mototaka Sakashita, Keio Business School, explore the clothing consumption practices of mothers and their teenage daughters.

Mothers and Daughters in France and Japan: Who influences who when buying clothes?

January 17, 2023

Social entrepreneurs

The Paradox of our Times and a Key Role for Social Enterprise

January 13, 2023

The Future of Green Jobs. What are green jobs and how can companies and organisations support and nurture them? Prof. Stefan Gröschl, ESSEC Business School, interviews Mette Grangaard Lund of the Green Jobs team at the ILO (International Labour Organization).

The Future of Green Jobs

January 12, 2023

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Welcome to the Council on Business & Society magazine Global Voice #24. 117 pages, 33 faculty and CEO contributors, including insights on leadership, team performance, sustainability transition, business decisions, education, the project economy, sustainable farming, and generational capital

Global Voice Magazine #24: A Precious Bauble

January 25, 2023by The Council on Business & Society Leave a comment

Welcome to the Council on Business & Society Global Voice magazine #24, now on download: 117 pages, 33 contributors, 16 articles.

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Integrity as a Dynamic for Long-term Company Performance

December 29, 2022by The Council on Business & Society Leave a comment

Pierre Guyot, VP at John Deere, on how integrity fosters positive results for its people and its business.

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Salhil Shahane, ESSEC Business School, looks at greenflation and the cost of building a clean and green economy. There is a debate around the potential cost of a green transition. "Greenflation" would be caused by higher demand for greener solutions, and the consequences of new public policies (e.g. green taxes). How can we deal with the social tensions that could possibly arise with greenflation? Salil Shahane, ESSEC Business School MiM student and competition finalist, explores.

Greenflation: The dirty cost of building a clean and green economy

November 14, 2022by The Council on Business & Society Leave a comment

Salhil Shahane, ESSEC Business School, looks at greenflation and the cost of building a clean and green economy.

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2022: A Social Odyssey

November 7, 2022 ⁄ by The Council on Business & Society ⁄ In Food For Thought ⁄ Leave a comment ⁄

AI and its Problems – An unavoidable reality or a dystopia?

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Net Zero Carbon Emissions: What prevents the world from reaching them

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Global Voice magazine #23: Back to the future?

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Is Information Technology Becoming the Next Oil and Gas?

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Global Voice magazine #22

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Results for the 2022 Student CSR Article Competition

May 5, 2022 ⁄ by The Council on Business & Society ⁄ In Community News ⁄ 1 Comment ⁄

Welcome to Global Voice magazine #21

April 20, 2022 ⁄ by The Council on Business & Society ⁄ In Community News ⁄ 2 Comments ⁄

Global Voice Magazine #20: Loud & Proud

February 18, 2022 ⁄ by The Council on Business & Society ⁄ In Community News ⁄ Leave a comment ⁄

Global Voice magazine #19: Open for Responsible Business

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