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Monthly Archives: June 2023

The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Japan Through their Fashion Consumption. How can we understand the relationship between a mother and her daughter through their fashion consumption? Do mothers look at daughters as an extension of themselves? Professors Junko Kimura, Hosei University, and Mototaka Sakashita, Keio Business School, explore this unique relationship.

The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Japan Through their Fashion Consumption

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Profs. Kimura and Mototaka explore how we can understand the relationship between a mother and her daughter through their fashion consumption

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Mind the Gap: The role of business schools in bridging the income divide. Long seen as a club for the privileged and a breeding ground for high-income graduates, business schools are now facing pressure – from outside and from within – to radically change the way they operate to play a powerful role in ensuring a more equitable share of wealth. Can they do this? And how? Silvana Leyva, BBA student and Winner of the 2023 Student CSR Article Competition at IE Business School, explores.

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Silvana Leyva, IE Business School, explores how business schools can play a powerful role in ensuring equitable income for all.

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A Bad Buy? I should have known better! Consumers’ choice and relationship with the goods and services they purchase can be complex – and surprising. One such example is blame for when things go wrong. Prof. Laurence Ashworth, Associate Dean of Research at Smith School of Business, shares his research into how our fear of appearing incompetent makes us distort the truth on a bad buy. From an interview with Professor Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School, Council on Business & Society.

A Bad Buy? I should have known better!

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Prof. Laurence Ashworth, Smith School of Business, with how our fear of appearing incompetent makes us distort the truth on a bad buy.

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Global Voice magazine #26 now on download. Global Voice magazine #26 Summer 2023 – Learning Is a Journey: Ride with style

Global Voice magazine #26 now on download

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Download the latest Global Voice magazine #26 – Learning Is a Journey: Ride with style. 164 pages on CSR, sustainability, AI and impact.

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The Journey of Learning Revisited. With the publication of the special summer issue of Global Voice magazine #26, Prof. Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School and Academic Director of the CoBS, offers an inspiring analogy of travel, exploration, and the learning journey that all of us might undertake during our lives.

The Journey of Learning Revisited

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Prof. Adrian Zicari, ESSEC and Council on Business & Society, with an inspiring analogy of travel and the learning journey in our lives.

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Profit Shifting: How do the big audit firms fare? With the publication of Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and profit for better business, society and planet, a spotlight on the featured research of book contributor Professor Anastasios Elemes, ESSEC Business School.

Profit Shifting: How do the big audit firms fare?

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A spotlight on Prof. Anastasios Elemes, ESSEC Business School, and his research into how audit firms shift profit to avoid tax.

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The 3Cs: A pioneering approach to co-creating sustainability education through design thinking. Sustainability is crucial in today’s higher education teaching, but it remains elusive as a concept and often scattered among departments across institutions. Associate Professors Dr. Lory Barile, University of Warwick, and Dr. Bo Kelestyn, Warwick Business School, share their pioneering approach that brought students and stakeholders together to tackle sustainability on-the-ground.

The 3Cs: A pioneering approach to co-creating sustainability education through design thinking

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Profs. Lory Barile and Bo Kelestyn, Warwick University & Business School, share their pioneering work in sustainability via design thinking.

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Business School and College studies. Intentionally but Mistakenly Unequal Busisiwe Raphuthing, MBA participant and Stellenbosch Business School winner of the CoBS 2023 student CSR article competition, uses her background in medical studies to highlight a very real paradox to address – that of business schools’ good intentions to produce leaders to reduce inequalities, while using pricing policies that allow only the wealthier to access studies.

Business Schools: Intentionally but mistakenly unequal

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Busisiwe Raphuthing, Stellenbosch, highlights the inequality paradox of business schools’: good intentions but high fees.

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Pair Programming and Backup Behavior: Tools to become ultra-agile. How can firms and teams become more agile? And when working under a novel task, how can teams help each other and extract the maximum out of everyone based on their individual strengths? Professor Thomas Kude, University of Bamberg, formerly of ESSEC Business School, and his fellow researchers Sunil Mithas, Muma College of Business, Christoph T. Schmidt, SVP International Technology, and Armin Heinzl, University of Mannheim, shine light on pair programming and backup behavior – two important concepts that teams can adopt to become more agile and more adept at handling new challenges.

Pair Programming and Backup Behaviour: Tools to become ultra-agile

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Prof. Thomas Kude, Bamberg University, explores pair programming and back up behavior – or how to make IT teams tough and agile.

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Regeneration at the Core of Profitable Retail Businesses and Supply Chains. Ainhoa Ye, MSc in Operations & Supply Chain Management student, and Trinity Business School Winner in the CoBS 2023 Student CSR Article Competition, contends that the time has come to tackle climate crisis through the crucial role of retail in leading the way towards a new era of profitable and regenerative businesses by redesigning their supply chains and business models.

Regeneration at the Core of Profitable Retail Businesses and Supply Chains

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Ainhoa Ye, Trinity Business School, looks at regeneration and calls for retail businesses and their supply chains to lead the way.

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