Responsible Innovation, Part 1
By Prof. Xavier Pavie, Professor at ESSEC Business School, Director of ISIS (Institute for Strategic Innovation & Services) and research associate at the IREPH (Research Institute in Philosophy) – Université Paris […]
Category Archives: Food For Thought
The Blue Economy: The mangrove case
By Olivier Fourcadet, Associate Professor at ESSEC, Management Department Holder of the Chair for Excellence in European Food Chains Corporate leaders are now familiar with the concept of the Green Economy, but […]
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A “backstage” peek at how a music festival gets organized and financed
By Prof. Arthur Gautier, Executive Director of the ESSEC Philanthropy Chair. The Belfort Eurockéennes music festival is today one of the biggest cultural events in France, one that has arguably […]
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Corporate Philanthropy: Don’t ask “why”, ask “to what end”
By Prof. Arthur Gautier, Executive Director of the ESSEC Chair in Philanthropy. When companies provide cash and assistance in the wake of a natural disaster, make grants to charitable organizations, […]
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Are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) the Future of Education and Training?
Internationally recognised expert in instructional design and learning technologies, Prof. Dirk Ifenthaler of Mannheim University, is interviewed by the Council on Business & Society. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) lay […]
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Learning Analytics: Benefits and challenges for higher education
By Professor Dr. Dirk Ifenthaler, University of Mannheim Learning analytics uses dynamic information about learners and learning environments, assessing, eliciting and analysing it for real-time modelling, prediction and optimisation of […]
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What Universities Can Do for Society in Emergency
Prof. Atsuomi Obayashi, Keio Business School, addresses how universities can help with disaster relief and offers a touching account of his own experience On 14-18 March, 2015, the United Nations […]
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Development of Low-Carbon Society Businesses in Japan
Keio Business School Prof. Takashi Iwamoto shares a snapshot of Japan’s Smart City policy. Japan’s electronics industries collapsed due to the financial crisis in 2008 and the Japanese government began […]
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Do You Fall in the Indicator Trap?
KPIs are useful but they do have shortcomings: should we place more faith in human thought? By Jan Ketil Arnulf at BI Norwegian Business School and the Associate Dean of the […]
