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The spring 2023 issue of Global Voice magazine now on download
Global Voice magazine #25:
Spring 2023: Mad, bad, fabulous, or fable?
March-June 2023
Global Voice #25
Spring 2023: Mad, bad, fabulous, or fable?
A warm spring welcome to Global Voice magazine issue #25!
This Global Voice #25 welcomes Dean Wanda Costen and her team at Smith School of Business, Canada, as the 9th member to the alliance dedicated to offering students, practitioners and the thinking reader top-level research and education in responsible leadership and business practices. And we are delighted to feature the first two insights – on the subject of remote working and impact investing – of hopefully many from Smith faculty in the future.
Spring 2023. As the front cover suggests, this year’s spring is especially one which hangs in the balance, with many major issues in the world to address. An Editorial from CoBS Academic Director Prof. Adrián Zicari addresses the right we have, as people, to remain hopeful in difficult times with ultimately a wish to shape and see a better world for business, society, and planet. Our traditional illustrated cartoon also tackles the question with its usual wry and acidic perspective which we hope you will appreciate and comment on.
33 contributors star in this GV#25 – from eminent research faculty among the CoBS member schools on 5 continents, to guest academics from other leading institutions, and professionals from Ksapa Sustainability and ESG consulting partners, The Human Factor, government bodies and students.
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In the Business, Management & Leadership section, key insights include research work among NGOs in Africa on how best to transfer knowledge, human rights priorities for business, how Emotional Intelligence can help tackle job burnout and marketing research on the impact of customer referencing on sales, and tech that might just save the traditional shopping mall from extinction.
Our Business & People section looks at the latest news phenomenon of ChatGPT and its impact on critical thinking, tech 4 good in helping sexual health education, tech and philanthropy in China, and how investing can drive social impact.
Our third section, devoted to Business & Planet, highlights – among others – research into how oil companies are changing strategies to cope with the transition to clean energies, the circular economy across frontiers, the impact of greenwashing on consumers, and innovation in education through sustainability initiatives.
Altogether, a knowledge-packed Global Voice #25 that we hope, as spring arrives and brings with it hope and change, you will read (and read again) and enjoy!

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