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Business & Health: How businesses, government, and society are addressing the future of healthcare

Business & Health: How businesses, government, and society are addressing the future of healthcare
Welcome to this special issue magazine on the key issue of Business & Health co-developed by WashU Olin School of Business, its Business of Health initiative, and the Council on Business & Society, an alliance of leading international business schools dedicated to positive business, social, financial and environmental impact.
This special 101-page issue features a Foreword and Afterword by Olin’s Dean and Professor Mike Mazzeo and Prof. Patrick Aguilar, Managing Director of Health, and 19 research-backed articles from leading faculty at WashU Olin Business School; ESSEC Business School; IE Business School; IIM Bangalore; Keio Business School; Smith School of Business, Queen’s University; Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin; Warwick Medical School; Warwick Business School; and Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College.
These insights come under 3 Sections.
Why Change is Hard explores the challenges and paradoxes facing innovation and re-organization in hospitals, private equity’s impact across healthcare institutions and practices, the questions healthcare leaders should ask before trusting patient data, public-private partnerships in health, and building business cases to sustain innovation funding.
What Makes it Work? Evidence-Based Levers for Culture and Trust puts the spotlight on motivation and how healthcare institutions can use it to empower their medical staff, how healthcare employee burnout can be avoided by specific leadership qualities, team dynamics and the culture of care, the truth behind “medical errors”, social responsibility as a primer for employee trust and strategic advantage, the rise of the Medical Crisis Director role, and the psychology behind people’s attraction to natural health interventions.
The Next Frontier – Innovation, Technology & Global Reach tackles how to fast-track the use of AI in clinics, hospitals and teams, how collaboration between healthcare teams, AI and the patient give rise to new competencies, using tech to improve nursing performance, how advances in tech and innovation are accelerating precision medicine, adopting a planetary health lens to blend sustainability into business and health, using smart phone technology to progress healthcare in developing countries, and using a strategy of accessibility, availability, and affordability as a model for inclusive health around the world.
Developed to advance the debate on one of the key societal issues of our times, this special issue has as a vocation to provide knowledge, research and insight in a readable and engaging way. It also hopes to spark thought, ideas and action for healthcare practitioners, policy-makers, academia, instructors, and students with a passion to challenge, improve, and build a better world through business and health.
The Editorial teams at WashU Olin and the CoBS




Business & Health special issue Contributors.

The special issue project teams
Global Voice Magazine #37
The Power of Informed Opinion: Research insights for a better, more objective world
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The autumn 2026 issue #37 of the CoBS Global Voice magazine.
Welcome back to the CoBS and the autumn issue of Global Voice magazine #37 – The Power of Informed Opinion: Research insights for a better, more objective world.
In a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and sometimes obscure influences we thought it would be a good idea to re-state the original idea and mission behind Global Voice magazine.
Now in its 10th year, the publication offers a platform to faculty, researchers, practitioners, students and alumni among the CoBS member schools. Our voice is committed to social, environmental, and financial impact – CSR, sustainability, ESG – as well as issues at the crossroads of business and society, and the common good. We also regularly publish guest academics and professionals.
A common denominator in our featured insights is research or/and field experience. Empirical in nature, objective in tackling a topic, we invite the reader to form her/his own opinion by drawing on the knowledge and conclusions contained in our insights. Both to take an informed part in debate on major topics affecting the world. And to help make decisions based on cutting edge research and in-the-field professional experience.
In this 106-page GV#37, you will discover another engaging Editorial by Academic Director Prof. Adrian Zicari, and 15 research-based articles from the work of 30 contributors from CoBS member schools and guest institutions.
These reads are assembled in 3 sections: Management & Leadership, Sustainability & Accountability, and Business & Society.
The Management & Leadership section covers, among others, the topics of power of character in leadership, love of one’s work, why employees persist in working long hours in professional service firms, and how tensions in personal life might influence unethical behaviour at work.
Section 2 – Sustainability & Accountability – puts the focus on the growing interest in Conscious Business, how the structure of global supply chains can shape potential ESG controversies, and accounting for sustainability.
And lastly, Section 3 – Business & Society – offers research-based insights into big data analytics and decision-making, youth entrepreneurship as a way to boost South Africa’s economy, the power of purpose in social enterprise, and a dive into behavioural science and tech with the factors that make us click on a hyperlink.
We hope you enjoy your reading – and if you happen to venture out into opinion – be assured that your power of persuasion will be one that is informed!
Tom Gamble and the CoBS Editorial and Publishing Team.



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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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