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Global Voice Magazine #36
How Many Students does it Take to Change the World?
The student winners, runners-up, and finalists of the 2026 CoBS CSR-Sustainability Case Development Competition!
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The special summer 2026 issue #36 of the CoBS Global Voice magazine.​
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We’re delighted to post this special summer issue 2026 of Global Voice magazine that features the winners, runners-up, and finalists from the CoBS Case Development Competition, Module 2 of the Council’s Advanced International Certificate in Responsible Business Practices.
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GV36 features 45 contributors, including 32 students from ESSEC, FGV, Fudan, IEBS, IIM Bangalore, Warwick and 13 faculty from these schools with research-based insights to accompany the student cases. All this coming in 3 Sections: Winners, Runners-up, and competition Finalists!
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Student pairs focused their articles, case and video presentations on the following corporates and social enterprises committed to sustainability, ESG, and social impact: Fractal Analysis, Pricepally, Prada Group, Envision Energy, Lemon Tree, Haffner, Green Arrow Capital, Instituto Votorantim, Henan Jianye Group, CESC, Bare Necessities, AMIC, Groupe Claire, Associação Passos Mágicos, Tata Power, and Jaguar Land Rover.
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Tom Gamble and the CoBS Editorial and Publishing Team.
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Special issue Harvard BiGS-CoBS Magazine
COMPANIES & PURPOSE: Purpose-driven business and its imprint on employees, profit, society, and planet
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Special Harvard Institute for Business in Global Society - Council on Business & Society issue:
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Companies & Purpose
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Welcome to the very special issue magazine co-published by The Harvard Business School Institute for Business in Global Society and the Council on Business & Society:
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COMPANIES & PURPOSE: Purpose-driven business and its imprint on employees, profit, society, and planet
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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.
This special issue kicks off with an introductory Editorial by Prof. Debora Spar, Senior Associate Dean, Business and Global Society at Harvard Business School, and Adrian Zicari, Academic Director of the CoBS, and professor of Accounting at ESSEC Business School.
Three sections follow: Companies & the changing landscape, Leading by example – purposeful businesses, and Global Perspectives on Companies & Purpose.
Section 1 highlights include exploring the role that business plays in solving social problems, how companies can manage the dual mandate of profit and purpose, the purpose ecosystem and how private actors and stakeholders help companies reach the SDGs, and finally business for good – an update on the shifting landscape since the 2019 pledge by 181 US CEOs
Section 2 includes a focus on the increasing interest in company ownership and how it brings wealth to the wider base, the strategic nature of integrity in corporate governance and purpose, caregiving and companies – how it boosts corporate value and workforce motivation, and corporate business coopetition as a strategy for building a better world.
Section 3 explores the bigger picture and features, among other super insights, innovations from the global south that combine profit and purpose, the move beyond the business case for equality, reframing sustainability as purpose, and a focus on Latin American CEOs and responsible leadership that impacts business and society.
So, as this seemingly exceptional year of change, complexity and challenge moves on, we hope you enjoy this special issue co-developed by two of the world’s most influential actors in responsible business at the crossroads of society and planet. We’d be delighted to hear from you – your feedback, comments and ideas – and please feel free to join in the debate either by contacting us through this website, or through the contact details on page 2 of this magazine.
Kind regards,
The Harvard BiGS-CoBS Editorial Team​​​
Global Voice Magazine and special issue magazines
The Council on Business & Society's quarterly magazine Global Voice features research-based, practitioner, and opinion-piece insights made readable for the student, practitioner and instructor on business and society, management and leadership, sustainability, entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship, CSR, ESG, green finance and social and environmental impact and reporting.
The CoBS also co-publishes special issue magazines and white papers with our partners who include The Harvard Institute for Business in Global Society, GRLI and GBSN.
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