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Monthly Archives: January 2023

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

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Profs. Anca Metiu and Mira Slavova, ESSEC and Warwick Business Schools, research farmers’ rituals as a key to unlocking knowledge transfer.

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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

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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: 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

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Prof. Daniel Malan, Trinity Business School, with a condensed learning capsule on how to effectively implement integrity in your strategy.

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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

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Innovation in Education – ESSEC Asia-Pacific brings business and sustainability to hopeful high school students throughout S.E. Asia.

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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?

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Prof. Mototaka Sakashita, Keio Business School, and colleagues explore the clothes spending practices of mothers and their teenage daughters.

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Social entrepreneurs

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

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Business for the common good has never been as needed, debated and desired as now. A spotlight on Social Enterprise – challenges and opportunities in a new world context with Profs. Concepción Galdón, Sheila M. Cannon, Edgard Barki, Adrian Zicari and a successful social entrepreneur, Paula Cardenau

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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

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Prof. Stefan Gröschl, ESSEC Business School, interviews Mette Grangaard Lund of the Green Jobs team at the ILO.

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Sustainable Finance in Brazil Today. Brazil, long-hailed as a rising star and future global economic leader, has seen a series of setbacks and crises over the last twenty years that have prevented it from realizing its huge potential. Still viewed as a developing country, with many social and economic challenges to overcome, it is nonetheless characterised by its development in financial markets and is in particular a pioneer in sustainable finance. What is the situation today and what remains to be done? Professor Annelise Vendramini-Felsberg, FGV-EAESP explains.

Sustainable Finance in Brazil Today

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Prof. Annelise Vendramini-Felsberg, FGV-EAESP, looks at the state of sustainable finance in Brazil today, its challenges and way forward.

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Jazz and the manager leader innovator

Playing Out of Sync: What jazz teaches entrepreneurial leaders

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Andy Lockett, Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, together with Deniz Ucbasaran, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School, strike a high note with their research into how business leaders can learn from jazz. 

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