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Global Voice Magazine #32 Message in a Bottle: Giant steps are what it takes Welcome to this very special summer issue of the Council on Business & Society’s Global Voice magazine #32 – Message in a Bottle: Giant steps are what it takes. This issue brings together the outstanding articles from the winning, runner-up and finalist students who took part in the CoBS Student CSR Article Competition, as well as faculty research-based insights from the CoBS schools. “Giant steps are what it takes” – indeed a message that runs throughout the 3 sections included in this 209-page magazine.

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Special summer 2025 issue: Global Voice magazine #32

 

Bringing together the winning, runner-up and finalist student articles from the 2025 Student CSR Article Competition and faculty research-based insights! 209 pages in 3 sections: CSR, Leadership, and Purpose, Business, Trade Conflict, and Sustainability, and Ethical AI, Business, and Society. On free download! ​

Special summer 2025 issue: Global Voice magazine #32. Bringing together the winning, runner-up and finalist student articles from the 2025 Student CSR Article Competition and faculty research-based insights! 209 pages in 3 sections: CSR, Leadership, and Purpose, Business, Trade Conflict, and Sustainability, and Ethical AI, Business, and Society. On free download! ​

The Competition Results! 

 

The results for the 2025 CoBS Student CSR Article Competition are now out! congratulations to the students from all the participating schools and warm thanks to their professors and staff for their expert coordination during the competition! ​

“[The Council's] Global Voice – yet another boring think tank, you might say? Not at all! The content is professional, exhaustive and explained. The tone is interesting, certain articles are wittily pitched and the style is fluid. Highly recommended!”

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Routledge-CoBS wins book award

 

Huge congrats to Prof. Daniel Malan at Trinity Business School & The CoBS whose Routledge-CoBS book “Power and Corporate Responsibility: Dimensions, Purpose and Value” was named joint winner of the prestigious SIM Division, AOM Best Book Award 2024!

Check out the winning book here. 

Huge congrats to Prof. Daniel Malan at Trinity Business School & The CoBS whose Routledge-CoBS book “Power and Corporate Responsibility: Dimensions, Purpose and Value” was named joint winner of the prestigious SIM Division, AOM Best Book Award 2024!

On the Council Community blog and special Gender Equality issue of Global Voice:

 

"This is one of the best sites I have ever visited. We all need to support women entrepreneurs in every aspect. The content is very informative. Thank you for sharing it."

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A prestigious new member to the Council on Business & Society

 

The CoBS is delighted to announce that Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has become the 12th member school of the global alliance of leading schools of business and management dedicated to teaching and research in responsible leadership at the crossroads of business, society, and planet.​

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The CoBS is delighted to announce that Indian Institute of Management Bangalore has become the 12th member school of the global alliance of leading schools of business and management dedicated to teaching and research in responsible leadership at the crossroads of business, society, and planet.

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The latest book in the Routledge-CoBS Focus on Responsible Business series is now published! Employee Meaning & Wellbeing - The responsible organisation. Discover the series! 

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Routledge CoBS Focus on Responsible Business About the Book Series This series is published in collaboration with the Council on Business & Society (COBS). Routledge and COBS Focus on Responsible Business provides international and multicultural perspectives on responsible leadership and business practices in line with the UN SDGs. Contributors from 11 leading business schools on 5 continents offer local, cultural and global perspectives on the issues covered, drawing on high level research and transformed into engaging, and digestible content for students, academics and practitioners. Topics include but are not limited to; responsible finance and accounting, CSR and governance, supply chain management, leadership, diversity and inclusion, performance and innovation, responsible management, and wellbeing at work.

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