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Empowering Rural China: The impact of the China Philanthropy E-commerce platform on targeted poverty alleviation. In the heart of Hunan province, a small village hummed with activity as General Secretary Xi Jinping made his way through the streets, meeting with residents living in poverty. Little did they know, this visit would be the catalyst for a revolutionary approach to poverty alleviation in China: The China Philanthropy e-commerce platform. Professors Qinqin Zheng and Jieyou Zhang, School of Management Fudan University, explore the promises and impacts of the platform.

Targeted Poverty Alleviation and the China Philanthropy E-commerce platform

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Profs Qinqin Zheng and Jieyou Zhang, School of Management Fudan University, research how a digital platform helps alleviate poverty in China.

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Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmer rituals in Ghana. When culture and worldviews clash, even a well-planned initiative to transfer knowledge can get bogged down and fail in the key stages of relationship-building and information exchange. Fascinating new research by Professors Anca Metiu, ESSEC Business School, and Mira Slavova, Warwick Business School, draws upon the farming communities of rural Ghana to highlight the role of rituals in effectively facilitating knowledge transfer.

Rituals and Knowledge Transfer: Learning from smallholder farmers in Ghana

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Profs. Anca Metiu and Mira Slavova, ESSEC and Warwick Business Schools, research farmers’ rituals as a key to unlocking knowledge transfer.

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Mothers and daughters in France and Japan: Who influences who when buying clothes? A daughter is often complimented about how she looks a lot like her mother. But, in today’s day and age, is it just the daughters capturing their Mum’s looks or the Mum’s taking in their daughter's style? Digging deeper from a cross-cultural perspective, Professors Elodie Gentina, IÉSEG School of Management, Kun-Huang Huarng, Feng Chia University, and Mototaka Sakashita, Keio Business School, explore the clothing consumption practices of mothers and their teenage daughters.

Mothers and Daughters in France and Japan: Who influences who when buying clothes?

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Prof. Mototaka Sakashita, Keio Business School, and colleagues explore the clothes spending practices of mothers and their teenage daughters.

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Sustainable Finance in Brazil Today. Brazil, long-hailed as a rising star and future global economic leader, has seen a series of setbacks and crises over the last twenty years that have prevented it from realizing its huge potential. Still viewed as a developing country, with many social and economic challenges to overcome, it is nonetheless characterised by its development in financial markets and is in particular a pioneer in sustainable finance. What is the situation today and what remains to be done? Professor Annelise Vendramini-Felsberg, FGV-EAESP explains.

Sustainable Finance in Brazil Today

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Prof. Annelise Vendramini-Felsberg, FGV-EAESP, looks at the state of sustainable finance in Brazil today, its challenges and way forward.

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Jazz and the manager leader innovator

Playing Out of Sync: What jazz teaches entrepreneurial leaders

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Andy Lockett, Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, together with Deniz Ucbasaran, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School, strike a high note with their research into how business leaders can learn from jazz. 

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Workplace Mental Health: How did the pandemic affect it? Professor Stephan Roper, Warwick Business School, Director of the Enterprise Research Centre, draws on pre-Covid and post-Covid research into workplace mental health to gauge how the UK workforce in the Midlands has coped, what measures firms have set up, and how employers are faring.  

Workplace Mental Health: How did the pandemic affect it?

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Prof. Stephan Roper, Warwick Business School, draws on research to explore the impact of the pandemic on workplace mental health.

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Social Entrepreneurship: Looking beyond the buzzword. Prof. Savita Shankar, University of Pennsylvania, formerly of Keio Business School, takes a deep dive into social businesses in Asia and analyses the difference between Asian and Western social enterprises.   

Social Entrepreneurship: Looking beyond the buzzword

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Prof. Savita Shankar, University of Pennsylvania, looks into social entrepreneurship in Asia and the difference with Western social enterprises.   

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Traceability and Bitcoin vs Sustainability in supply chains: Sophie’s Choice? Debajyoti Biswas, ESSEC Business School, Hamed Jalali, NEOMA Business School, Amir H. Ansaripoor, Curtin Business School, and Pietro De Giovanni, Luiss University, examine whether the benefits of traceability are worth the costs to sustainability.

Traceability vs Sustainability: Sophie’s Choice?

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Debajyoti Biswas, ESSEC Business School, and co-researchers examine whether the benefits of traceability are worth the costs to sustainability

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How to Be a Responsible Leader. “Responsibility always starts with the person at the top – and the right culture will trickle down.” Professor Dimitrios Spyridonidis, Warwick Business School, refreshes the call and takes us through the journey to becoming a responsible leader.

How to Be a Responsible Leader

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Prof. Dimitrios Spyridonidis, Warwick Business School, refreshes the call and takes us through the journey to becoming a responsible leader.

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Climate Change: A new and unavoidable cause for philanthropy. Professor Arthur Gautier, Executive Director, and Éléonore Delanoë, Research Fellow at the ESSEC Philanthropy Chair, together with Dr. Charles Sellen, Global Philanthropy Fellow, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI, explore the recent upsurge in philanthropic interest for this urgent cause – climate change. Climate Change: A new and unavoidable cause for philanthropy. With kind acknowledgements to Arthur Gautier. Translated by Tom Gamble. Originally published in French on The Conversation.

Climate Change: A new and unavoidable cause for philanthropy

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Arthur Gautier, Éléonore Delanoë, ESSEC, and Charles Sellen, IUPUI, explore the surge in philanthropy for an urgent cause – climate change.

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