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The CoBS Global Voice #35 magazine features an Editorial and 14 research and professional insights from 17 CoBS member faculty, guest academics and in-the-field practitioners brought together in 93 pages and 2 Sections: Management & Leadership, and Sustainability.

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CoBS Global Alumni Meet Up hosted by ESSEC Asia-Pacific, Singapore! Wednesday 10th June, 7pm-10pm, ESSEC Asia-Pacific campus, MRT station one north, Parking at Fusionopolis One Join an interactive evening with keynote speakers on the theme of The 2030 Singapore Green Plan: From Singapore to beyond in South East Asia.

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The 4th CoBS Global Alumni Meet Up: January 22nd 2026! 

 

A fantastic event hosted by CoBS member Warwick Business School at their London campus in The Shard. 68 alumni from 6 CoBS schools and a stunning masterclass by Warwick Prof. Jo Horton on the subject of Ethics in Action: Navigating Fraud in the Modern Business Landscape followed by interactive breakout sessions and networking around drinks & buffet. 

The CoBS Global Alumni Meet Up hosted in London by Warwick Business School, United Kingdom. The evening's learning takeaway theme: Ethics in Action: Navigating Fraud in the Modern Business Landscape.

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Predicting Fraud before it Happens: How early signals can change corporate accountability.

 

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Predicting Fraud before it Happens: How early signals can change corporate accountability.

The special Harvard BiGS-CoBS issue on Corporate Purpose

 

In this second collaboration, Harvard BiGS & CoBS offer you 106 pages of insights and 24 articles from globally recognised faculty and prominent business leaders from around the world to propose a truly global and also regional perspective on the ever-important issue of purpose and its impact on corporate value, employee motivation, society, and planet.​

“[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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Nicolas Berrou, Business-cool.com

In this second collaboration, Harvard BiGS​ & CoBS offer you 106 pages of insights and 24 articles from globally recognised faculty and prominent business leaders from around the world to propose a truly global and also regional perspective on the ever-important issue of purpose and its impact on corporate value, employee motivation, society, and planet.

​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:

 

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The spring 2026 issue of the CoBS Global Voice magazine #35

 

The CoBS Global Voice #35 magazine features an Editorial and 14 research and professional insights from 17 CoBS member faculty, guest academics and in-the-field practitioners brought together in 93 pages and 2 Sections: Management & Leadership, and Sustainability. 

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Brave New World? With a little effort, a better one than you may think. The CoBS Global Voice #35 magazine features an Editorial and 14 research and professional insights from 17 CoBS member faculty, guest academics and in-the-field practitioners brought together in 93 pages and 2 Sections: Management & Leadership, and Sustainability.

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The latest book in the Routledge-CoBS Focus on Responsible Business series is now published! Strategic Altruism:Total Strategy Inspired by Kazuo Inamori’s Management Philosophy. Discover the series! 

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his 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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