The results of the 2025 Student CSR Article Competition

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Our Recent News

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!”

Nicolas Berrou, Business-cool.com

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.

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

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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.

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