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The 2025 Council on Business & Society Student Article Competition Results!
The winners, runners up and finalists of the 2025 Council on Business & Society Student CSR article competition. Warm thanks to all the students for their submissions throughout the CoBS member schools as well as to the staff and faculty teams within the CoBS Schools for their expert coordination and adjudication.
This year's topics
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What is the impact of trade wars on sustainable business practices?
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Addressing biodiversity – how can companies help restore nature in all its forms?
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How do humans interact with AI to ensure the common good?
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What can politicians learn from CEOs, if anything? What can those newly elected to office learn from those leading the world’s most successful organisations?
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Purpose-Driven Leadership: How does aligning personal and organizational purpose create meaningful impact in business?
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What is the role of AI in sustainability?
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Sustainability and trade – how do we develop trade policies and strategies that better address wider social and environmental issues?
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The Sustainability Transformation Dilemma: Challenges and strategies for established businesses
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How can companies and governments balance the benefits and costs of decarbonization in the modern business landscape?
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Beyond DEI: How can companies embed inclusion without the Label?
The prizes
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A €500 cash prize for the winning article in each CoBS alliance member school
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Winners, runners-up and finalists win Council on Business & Society branded goodies
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Winner, runner-up and finalist articles will be published in June’s special issue of Global Voice magazine
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Winner, runner-up and finalist articles will be posted on CoBS Insights, the Council’s blog with a global audience
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Obtain a CoBS Certificate: Participant, Finalist, Runner-up, and Winner certificates branded 12 leading business schools.
The Results per Participating School
ESSEC Business School
Winner: Laura Segre, GBBA, with Be the Tortoise & not the Hare: Aligning Purpose at Work
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Runner Up: Hari Chandana Chinni, MiM, with Building Walls or Bridges? How Trade Wars Shape Our Sustainable Future
Finalist: Zineb Araqi Houssaini, GBBA, with No Labels Required: Rethinking Inclusion for the Next Generation of Work
Finalist: Mingyou Yuan, MiM, with What Politicians Can Learn from CEOs and Where to Draw the Line
Finalist: Camille Guez, MiM, with Biodiversity at a crossroads: How businesses can lead the way to restoration
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Winner: Camila Melo, BBA, with From Conflict to Catalyst — Can Trade Wars Accelerate the Green Revolution?
Runner Up: Carlos Eduardo Lumazini Koreivo, BBA, with From Plato to AI: How mathematics can shape human perception
Finalist: Livia Kuga, PhD student, with Artificial intelligence at a Crossroad: Terminator or our best ally?
School of Management Fudan University
Winner: Pechaporn Pornpraipech, IMBA, with A Call to Action: A business case for restoring nature
Runner Up: Jingqiang Huang, BSc Economic Management, with Beyond DEI: How Can Companies Embed Inclusion without the Label?
Finalist: Mengyuan Sheng, First Year Ph.D Marketing Department, with Evolving Artificial Intelligence: Co-Evolutionary dynamics are reshaping business and society
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Winner: Atul Gupta, MBA, with How do Humans Interact with AI?
Runner Up: Putrevu Manasa, MBA, with Leading with Purpose: Aligning Goals and Tracking Impact
Finalist: Arham Mehta, MBA, with Fair Trade for a Fragmented World: Why sustainability must mean justice
Finalist: Biswayan Das, MBA, with AI for Common Good: The Tug-of-War for Control and Conscience
IE Business School
Winner: Sridhar Maheswar, EMBA, with Decarbonization on a Budget: Maximizing benefits, minimizing costs
Runner Up: Laura Sofía Del Castillo Rix, Master in Sustainability & Business Transformation, with The Green Ilusion: Why big businesses struggle to go sustainable – and how they can succeed
Finalist: Thérèse Rottner, IMBA, with Keep the AI Eye on the Prize: How can humans interact with AI to ensure the common good?
Smith School of Business, Queen’s University
Winner: Alex Rogers, MBA, with Alex Rogers, with Imitation is the Highest Form of Profitability: AI v. Art
Runner Up: Joel Tatlow, MBA, with Looking Beyond the Energy Cost: The green future of AI
Finalist: Sam Hossain, Master of Management Analytics, with Economy, Sovereignty and the ‘Buy Canadian’ Movement: How Canada's trade war is redefining resilience and sustainability
Finalist: Finalist: Najib Tasleem, Master of Management Analytics, with Healing with Intelligence: AI, humans, and the pursuit of the common good in healthcare
Stellenbosch Business School
Winner: Mich Herbst, MBA, with How to Be a Person in the Age of Intelligence
Runner Up: Isabel Wolf-Gillespie, MBA, with The Inner Shift: Unlocking business sustainability through personal transformation
Finalist: Gcobisa Mdlulwa, MBA, with What can those newly elected to office learn from those leading the world’s most successful organisations?
Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin
Winner: Mitali Badkul, Full-time MBA, with Wired for Excess: AI, sustainability, and the loop we must break
Runner Up: Adithya Mani, MSc Operations & Supply Chain Management, with From Genes to Green: The role of AI in shaping the future
Finalist: Ella Blake, BSc Business Studies and Spanish, with Trade Wars vs. Sustainability – Only One Can Win
Warwick Business School
Winner: Nimar Dang, MSc Marketing and Strategy, with Inclusion: The DNA, not the department
Runner Up: Aastha Ojha, MSc Marketing and Strategy, with Can Sustainable Business Survive Global Trade Wars?
Finalist: Aaditya Choube, MSc Marketing and Strategy, with Purpose driven leadership: creating impact through alignment
Finalist: Hershitaa Pandey, MSc International Business, with The Power of Purpose: How leaders who align personal and organisational values create real impact
Finalist: Muminat Adekunle, Full-time MBA, with DEI: Liability or legacy?
View the 2024 student finalists, runners up, and competition winners page.
The 2024 competition
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Read the 2024 student finalist, runner up, and competition winner articles in the the special issue Global Voice #30!
The 2023 competition
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Read the 2023 student articles in the special June 2023 issue of Global Voice magazine #26!
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