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The Cost of Inflation: A threat to global economic growth. Quynh Nguyen, Runner Up in the CoBS 2023 Student CSR Article Competition at IE Business School, explores the spiral of inflation that has swept the world, highlighting the inability for supply to keep up with demand.

The Cost of Inflation: A threat to global economic growth

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Quynh Nguyen, IE Business School, explores the spiral of inflation that has swept the world and its effect on supply and demand.

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The Student’s Friend, the Educator’s Foe: Debunking ChatGPT’s contentious academic reputation. Eva Fitzpatrick, Trinity Business School Runner up in the 2023 CoBS Student CSR article competition, explores the reaction to ChatGPT in academic circles and sees this as an opportunity to engage in long-required, positive change in teaching and learning approaches.

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Eva Fitzpatrick, Trinity Business School, explores the reaction to ChatGPT in an attempt to debunk its contentious academic reputation

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Deglobalization is Another Kind of Globalization. Lijun Song, MBA participant and Winner of the 2023 Student CSR Article Competition at School of Management Fudan University, sees deglobalization as an opportunity – despite the risks to business – and calls for firms to focus on three factors to help them innovate and improve their brands: digital, local presence, and a focus on ESG.

Deglobalization is Another Kind of Globalization

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Lijun Song, School of Management Fudan, sees deglobalization as an opportunity for firms to innovate and improve their brands.

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Triple Capital Accounting: From outside in to inside out. A spotlight on Raphaël Hara, Managing Director and co-founder of Ksapa Sustainability & ESG Consulting, and Adrien Covo, Ksapa Senior Program Officer, whose work on Triple Capital Accounting features in the recently published Routledge-CoBS book Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and profit for better business, society and planet

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Raphaël Hara and Adrien Covo of ESG & Sustainability consulting firm Ksapa deep dive into 3 key takeaways for triple capital accounting.

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Powering Change: Electricity, transition and development. Rafael Echechipia Fontana, BBA student and Winner in the CoBS 2023 Student CSR Article Competition at FGV-EAESP, contends that access to electricity and energy transition cannot be dealt with by purely developed economies alone – and that increased social and economic development in the Global South will provide a much-needed boost towards adopting greener energies.

Powering Change: Electricity, transition and development

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Rafael Echechipia Fontana, FGV-EAESP Brazil, with a focus on access to electricity and the energy transition in the global south.

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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.

Mind the Gap: The role of business schools in bridging the income divide

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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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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.

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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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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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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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The Illusion of Inclusion: How Artificial Intelligence can challenge the ‘business case’ for diversity. Marla MacInnes, Bachelor of Commerce student and CoBS 2023 student CSR competition Winner at Smith School of Business, probes the question of diversity and inclusion in firms, why it pays to do so, and how AI can boost the capacity to walk the talk of their DEI policy.

The Illusion of Inclusion: How Artificial Intelligence can challenge the ‘business case’ for diversity

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Marla MacInnes, Smith School of Business, probes the question of diversity and inclusion in firms and how AI can help.

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