Global Voice magazine #36: The special summer issue featuring the student winners, runners-up, and finalists of the 2026 CoBS CSR-Sustainability Case Development Competition!

How Many Students does it Take to Change the World?

We’re delighted to post this special summer issue 2026 of Global Voice magazine that features the winners, runners-up, and finalists from the CoBS Case Development Competition.

This marks an innovative change from the traditional CoBS CSR Student Article Competition which ran – with much success – from 2017-2025 with over 4,000 students across the CoBS schools submitting articles with each yearly June special issue featuring 174 articles from the CoBS member school student winners, runners-up and finalists.

The New Normal – or should we say “Format”

How does it change in 2026? The competition has been integrated into the CoBS Advanced International Certificate in Responsible Business Practices as Module 2 out of 4 in the programme.

It has been enhanced and strengthened to stretch students that little bit further and involves 4 elements: An interview with a sustainability-ESG-CSR-Social Impact leadership figure, analysis of this person’s company or organisation in terms of impact, development of a case presentation and a video where the students pitch their case analysis, and finally an article destined for the wider public. Indeed, the last deliverable from each participating school features in this special issue June 2026 Global Voice magazine #36. The competition article thus contributes to one of the fundamental missions of the CoBS, founded in 2011 – promote teaching, research and knowledge in responsible leadership and business practices to the wider world, thereby sensitizing society to the major issues at the crossroads of business, society, and planet.

In this Issue

Global Voice #36 features 45 contributors, including 32 students from CoBS member schools ESSEC Business School (France-Singapore-Morocco), FGV EAESP (Brazil), Fudan School of Management (China), IE Business School (Spain), IIM Bangalore (India), Warwick Business School (United Kingdom), and 13 faculty from these schools with research-based insights to accompany the student cases. All this coming in 3 Sections: Winners, Runners-up, and competition Finalists!

Student pairs focused their articles, case and video presentations on the following corporates and social enterprises committing to sustainability, ESG, and social impact: Fractal Analysis, Pricepally, Prada Group, Envision Energy, Lemon Tree, Haffner, Green Arrow Capital, Instituto Votorantim,Henan Jianye Group,CESC, Bare Necessities, AMIC, Groupe Claire, Associação Passos Mágicos, Tata Power, and Jaguar Land Rover.

Global Voice Magazine #36: The Chrysalis, the Caterpillar, and the Butterfly

Congratulations to all the winning, runner-up, and finalist students – your great work is now live and published – and therefore perennial!

And finally, warm thanks to the motivation and professionalism of the organising teams and juries in the participating schools. Also the CoBS Head of Design based at ESSEC It is your hard work that has made this first, new edition such a great success.

Download and enjoy!

The CoBS Secretariat

Useful links:

• Read and download the articles in the special student issue Global Voice #26 (2023), Global Voice #30 (2024), and Global Voice #32 (2025)
• Discover the CoBS Advanced International Certificate
• Download a host of responsible leadership learning content from the CoBS website.

Learn more about the Council on Business & Society

The Council on Business & Society (CoBS), visionary in its conception and purpose, was created in 2011, and is dedicated to promoting responsible leadership and tackling issues at the crossroads of business, society, and planet including the dimensions of sustainability, diversity, social impact, social enterprise, employee wellbeing, ethical finance, ethical leadership and the place responsible business has to play in contributing to the common good.  

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Member schools of the Council on Business & Society.

• ESSEC Business School, France, Singapore, Morocco
• FGV-EAESP, Brazil
• School of Management Fudan University, China
• IE Business School, Spain
• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India
• Keio Business School, Japan
• Monash Business School, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia
• Olin Business School, USA
• Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada
• Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa
• Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Warwick Business School, United Kingdom.