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Monthly Archives: February 2023

The Circular Economy: Its challenges and impact across frontiers. Have we reached the point of no return in the fight against climate change? Or does mankind still have a few tricks up its sleeve? Professors Susana Pereira, and Alexandre Bittar, FGV-EAESP, together with their fellow researchers explore how the circular economy – the process of extending a product’s life by reusing, sharing, upcycling – can be an answer to our problems.

The Circular Economy: Its challenges and impact across frontiers

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Prof. Susana Pereira, FGV-EAESP, explores how the circular economy – reusing, sharing, upcycling – can be an answer to our problems.

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Africa: The UN SDGs and a Key Role for Non-Bank Financial Institutions. A spotlight on Dr. Ronald Rateiwa and Professor Meshach Aziakpono, Stellenbosch Business School, and their research insight included in the recently published Routledge-CoBS book Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and profit for better business, society and planet

Africa, the UN SDGs and a Key Role for Non-Bank Financial Institutions  

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Dr. Ronald Rateiwa & Professor Meshach Aziakpono, Stellenbosch, focus on how NBFIs can help Africa reach the UN SDGs.

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Storytelling: How and why HR Analysts tell – or not. Are analytical skills enough to excel as an HR analyst? Why and how are storytelling skills used by HR analysts to further their cause? Professors Na Fu, Trinity Business School, Anne Keegan, Smurfit Business School, and Steven McCartney, Maynooth University School of Business, dive deep into the world of HR analysts to understand their skills and challenges.

Storytelling: How and why HR Analysts tell – or not

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Prof. Na Fu, Trinity Business School, and colleagues, explore why and how storytelling skills are used by HR analysts to further their cause.

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Human Rights in 2023: Five key priorities for businesses. Human rights have become an integral part of the discussion amongst policymakers and business leaders and 2023 is a turning point. Ksapa CEO Farid Baddache and Senior Consultant Krystel Bassil look into the many factors driving businesses towards implementing human rights policies and that hold them accountable by making such commitments public.

Human Rights in 2023: Five key priorities for businesses

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Ksapa CEO Farid Baddache & Snr Consultant Krystel Bassil look into the factors driving businesses towards human rights policies in 2023.

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Accounting Firms: Can they influence companies’ inherent motivation to be good? With the upcoming publication of Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and profit for better business, society and planet with publishers Routledge, a spotlight on contributor Professor Qinqin Zheng, School of Management Fudan University, and her research insight included in the book.

Accounting Firms: Can they influence companies’ inherent motivation to be good?

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Prof. Qinqin Zheng, School of Management Fudan, researches the relationship and influence between accounting firms and their clients.

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Responsible Finance & Accounting: The book With the launch of Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and profit for better business, society and planet with publishers Routledge, Professors Annelise Vendramini, FGV-EAESP, and Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School, give an over- and inside view of the book, and why it should be on the booklist of everyone with an interest in responsible business, finance, and accounting.

Responsible Finance & Accounting: The book

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The launch of the book Responsible Finance and Accounting. An interview with Profs. Annelise Vendramini, FGV-EAESP, and Adrian Zicari, ESSEC.

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The Oil Industry and Sustainable Energies: Risky seas ahead, or plain sailing? How are international oil companies facing the pressure to transform to renewables? Professor of Global Energy Michael Bradshaw at Warwick Business School, and Mathieu Blondeel, Professor of Global Energy Governance at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU Amsterdam, explore the map of how they might navigate the potential storm ahead.

The Oil Industry and Sustainable Energies: Risky seas ahead, or plain sailing?

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How is the oil industry facing the pressure to transform to renewables? Profs Michael Bradshaw & Mathieu Blondeel explore the map ahead.

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The Amazon Conundrum: The challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. Professors Thomaz Wood Jr, FGV EAESP, and Dafne Oliveira Carlos de Morais, Centro Universitário da FEI, explore the delicate balance between development and conservation in the Amazon region while sharing approaches that work and the ones that don’t.

The Amazon Conundrum: The challenges and opportunities for sustainable development

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Prof. Thomaz Wood Jr, FGV EAESP, explores the delicate balance between development and conservation in the Amazon region.

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Brian Kaitano explores how technology can help to boost sexual health education and tackle HIV and other STDs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Technology and Sexual Health Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Brian Kaitano explores how technology can help to boost sexual health education and tackle HIV and other STDs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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