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Greening Finance for a Sustainable Future. Responsible finance is crucial for the betterment of our society and planet. Professor Hugues Bouthinon Dumas, ESSEC Business School, has contributed to this field with his research, which is now a part of the recently published book Responsible Finance and Accounting: Performance and Profit for Better Business, Society and Planet by Routledge.

Greening Finance for a Sustainable Future

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Prof. Hugues Bouthinon Dumas, ESSEC Business School, explores how greening finance is crucial for the betterment of our society and planet.

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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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The Future of Green Jobs. What are green jobs and how can companies and organisations support and nurture them? Prof. Stefan Gröschl, ESSEC Business School, interviews Mette Grangaard Lund of the Green Jobs team at the ILO (International Labour Organization).

The Future of Green Jobs

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Prof. Stefan Gröschl, ESSEC Business School, interviews Mette Grangaard Lund of the Green Jobs team at the ILO.

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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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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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Salhil Shahane, ESSEC Business School, looks at greenflation and the cost of building a clean and green economy. There is a debate around the potential cost of a green transition. "Greenflation" would be caused by higher demand for greener solutions, and the consequences of new public policies (e.g. green taxes). How can we deal with the social tensions that could possibly arise with greenflation? Salil Shahane, ESSEC Business School MiM student and competition finalist, explores.

Greenflation: The dirty cost of building a clean and green economy

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Salhil Shahane, ESSEC Business School, looks at greenflation and the cost of building a clean and green economy.

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2022: A Social Odyssey. Prateek Jha, ESSEC Business School MiM student, and finalist in the CoBS 2022 student CSR article competition, contends that business schools can provide a unique contribution to building back better post-Covid and winning the battle against social vulnerability.

2022: A Social Odyssey

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Prateek Jha, ESSEC, contends that in 2022 business schools can provide unique contribution to winning the battle against social vulnerability.

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Net-Zero Carbon Emissions: What prevents the world from reaching them An in-depth exploration of the complexities and paradoxes of reaching net-zero carbon emissions by Félix Dubois-Aubecq, ESSEC MiM student and finalist in the CoBS 2022 CSR article competition.

Net Zero Carbon Emissions: What prevents the world from reaching them

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An in-depth exploration of the complexities and paradoxes of net-zero carbon emissions by Félix Dubois-Aubecq, ESSEC Business School.

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AI AND ETHICS: HOW TO BREAK OUT OF THE MATRIX:, Nicolas Julien, MiM-ENSAE student, ESSEC Business SchoolRunner-up in the 2022 student CSR article competition, explores the fears and preconceptions of AI and calls for stakeholder cooperation to tackle the possible risks that AI may bring.

AI and Ethics: How to break out of the matrix

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Nicolas Julien on the subject of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Ethics.

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Business with a Wider Mission: Inclusive growth and the B4IG initiative Camille Putois, CEO of the Business For Inclusive Growth (B4IG) initiative and Professor Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School, give an insight into why business with a wider mission is required and how B4IG and the CoBS work together to achieve it.

Inclusive growth and the B4IG initiative

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Inclusive growth and the B4IG initiative: Camille Putois, CEO of the Business For Inclusive Growth (B4IG) initiative and Professor Adrian Zicari, ESSEC Business School, give an insight into why business with a wider mission is required and how B4IG and the CoBS work together to achieve it.

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