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Global Voice Magazine #37

The Power of Informed Opinion: Research insights for a better, more objective world

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

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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.

GV#37: 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.

GV37. 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.

GV37: 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.

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Global Voice magazine #37 contributors - Brains that have Brawn!

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Special issue Harvard BiGS-CoBS Magazine

COMPANIES & PURPOSE: Purpose-driven business and its imprint on employees, profit, society, and planet

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: 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:

Companies & Purpose

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:

COMPANIES & PURPOSE: Purpose-driven business and its imprint on employees, profit, society, and planet

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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Global Voice magazine #36 featuring the student case development competition winners and finalists.

The CoBS Deans' Panel Takeaway: The future of business school education in the age of AI

CoBS Alumni Roundtable: Sustainability and the Singapore 2030 Green Plan

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.

The CoBS-Warwick Business School publishes Ethics in Action: Navigating Fraud in the Modern Business Landscape.

Global Voice magazine #34: Corporate citizenship, corporate responsibility, Business ethics, Ethical business practice, Sustainable business practice, Corporate social investing, Stakeholder responsibility, Social impact business strategy, Responsible business operations

The Council on Business & Society (CoBS) publishes The Next Frontier of Responsible Business Leadership: Insights from Business School Deans.

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Download the Global Voice #32 vSpecial Summer 2025 issue

Global Voice #31, magazine, Management, Leadership, performance, remote working, accounting, popular culture, HRM practice in BRICS, marketing, business models, ethics & compliance, Brazil, Kenya, social entrepreneurs, humanitarian operations, philanthropy, human unpredictability, team management, SDGs, ESG, net zero, youth with disabilities, job market, tech, tea workers, Assam, cost of living crisis, free sustainability learning content, CSR, business, society, sustainability, green finance, carbon emissions

Harvard BiGS and CoBS Special Issue Magazine - Climate Change: Strategies for advancing the green transition. Harvard Business School, Council on Business & Society, ESSEC, FGV-EAESP, Fudan School of Management, IE Business School, Keio Business School, Monash Business School, Smith School of Business, Stellenbosch Business School, Trinity Business School, Warwick Business School, sustainability, sustainable development, renewable energies, ESG, CSR

Global Voice magazine #30, 155 pages on leadership and CSR, business, society, and planet from faculty and students, magazine, Global Voice, reading, knowledge, leader, leadership, management, CSR, business, planet, society, CEO pay, future generations, short-termism, AI, future of work, conscious business, carbon footprint, sustainability, AI and ethics, recruitment, tech, recruitment process, interviews, politics, political, polarization, USA, China, democracy, apps, compliance, Japanese, companies, workplace, Japan, boards of directors, governance, CSiR

Council on Business & Society, Global Voice magazine #29, sufficiency, sustainability, CSR, carbon emissions, management, leadership, team management, knowledge transfer, employee motivation, gender-based violence in Kenya, circular economy, entrepreneurship, integrity, corporate strategy, NGOs, green tech, tech4good, smallholder certification, common good, climate action, social impact, research, sustainable clothing, marketing, responsible management education, Yin-Yang, China

Global Voice magazine, Triple Bottom Line, John Elkington, People, Planet, profit, leadership, management, CSR, ESG, sustainability, sustainable business, CSV, people analytics, HR analytics, employee engagement, boredom, CMO, marketing, marketing strategy, marketing budget, leader integrity, employee creativity, business ethics, impact investing, accounting, rice, global supply chains, political donations, child rights, human rights, Kenya, inheritances, intergenerational collaboration, ageism, diversity, inclusion, Japanese ethics, Japanese management, Japanese CSR, Council on Business & Society,

Council on Business & Society Global Voice Magazine #27, September 2023, Solidarity fintech, social currency, cryptocurrency, CSR, ESG, sustainability, management, leadership, business, society, workplace psychology, cartoon, global minimum tax, corporate tax, emotional value, social value, enterprise, AI, climate change, climate action, triple capital accounting, sustainable clothing, ESSEC Business School, FGV-EAESP, School of management Fudan, IE Business School, Keio Business School, Olin Business School, Smith School of Business, Monash Business School, Stellenbosch Business School, Warwick Business School

Global Voice magazine #26, Prof. Adrian Zicari, Academic Director of the CoBS, follows with an inspiring analogy of travel, exploration, and the learning journey that all of us might undertake during our lives. 30 faculty and student contributors appear in the 2 sections of this issue: Business & Society and Leadership, Management & Sustainability. The Business & Society section largely debates the launch of the new version of ChatGPT. From threat to integrity and critical thinking, to a welcome revolution to trigger change in education, and a means to paradoxically restore the art of rhetoric and composition in higher education studies, students from 5 continents get to grips with AI and what it means for them. Business schools are also a focus, with both a critical standpoint and a positive perspective on how they can create opportunity and contribute to reducing divides in society. Leadership, Management & Sustainability tackles research-based issues on linking CEO pay to ESG

Council on Business & Society magazine Global Voice #24. 117 pages, 33 faculty and CEO contributors, insights on leadership, team performance, sustainability transition, business decisions, education, the project economy, sustainable farming and generational capital

Council on Business & Society Global Voice magazine #21

Covering current hot topics and lasting major issues – the climate crisis, women at work, leadership in the 21st century, the future of CSR, inclusivity and disability employment, social impact, philanthropy, conscious business, and mentorship among others – Global Voice magazine offers you the unique international and multicultural expertise of the Council on Business & Society faculty and guests.

This Global Voice special 10 Years Anniversary Faculty and Student issue #18 is: 186 pages, 28 articles – faculty research-based and student winners and finalists from the 2021 CoBS CSR article competition, 8 Faculty ‘Top Reads’ articles (receiving most views and reads) from the last 5 years, From 34 contributors, An Editorial co-authored by Prof. Adrian Zicari, Executive Director of the Council on Business & Society and Prof. Mette Morsing, Head of UN PRME, A centre-spread timeline showing key moments and achievements in the Council’s 10 years of existence, And a special 10 Years’ Anniversary position statement from the Deans of the Council��’s schools.

Council on Business & Society Global Voice magazine #17, CSR, buildbackbetter, women leaders, 4 ways to fight child labor, sustainability, greentech, climate change, management, nature-based solutions, social enterprise, intergenerational collaboration, social reporting, environmental reporting, social reporting, supply chain governance, agile supply chain governance, ethics, ethics & compliance.

Global Voice magazine #16 Council on Bus

Global Voice magazine issue 15, September 2020

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CSR, leadership, social enterprise, management, philanthropy, diversity, gender equity, healthcare, sustainability, ethics, industrial relations, healthcare, responsible innovation, CSR reporting, employee wellbeing, Council on Business & Society, Global Voice magazine, ESSEC Business School, ESSEC Asia-Pacific, FGV-EAESP, Trinity College Dublin Business School, IE Business School, Keio Business School, Warwick Business School, School of Management Fudan University, Tom Gamble, Global Voice magazine #13

Faculty, student competition, CSR, leadership, sustainability, artificial intellience, uman resource management, ethics, philanthropy, diversity, migration

Council on Business & Society Global Voice focus on Europe, CSR, leadership, social enterprise, sustainability, management, finance, philosophy, politics, Brexit

A special focPAC.PNGs from the Council on Business & Society members ESSEC Asia-Pacific, School f Mangement Fudan, Keio Business School

Council on Business & Socety Global Voice magazine: research for th common good

The Council on Business & Society Global Voice magazine, CSR, leadership, responsible leadership, diversity, inclusion, diversity & inclusion, social accounting, environmental reporting, CSR reporting, management, sustainability, gender equity, sustainable supply chains, greentech, green finance, sustainable development, ethics, ethical supply chain, governance, CSR governance, social enterprise, SocEnt, philanthropy, corporate giving.

A special edition on Brazil: business, opportunities and entrepreneurship

CoBS Global Alumni Meet Up Takeaways

The CoBS organises Global Alumni Meet Up events, bringing together the alumni from the member schools to meet, network, and interact around a theme set by keynote speakers. These events give rise to takeaway publications. For more information on the CoBS global alumni network, visit our Alumni page.

CoBS Deans booklet on AI and Business Education

July 6th 2026: The Shanghai Zhengli campus, hosted by Fudan University School of Management. With a learning takeaway: Are We Teaching the Future or the Past? Re-thinking Responsible Business Education in the Age of AI

June 10th 2026: Singapore, hosted by ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific. Learning takeaway: From the Singapore Green Plan to the Future of Business Education.

June 10th 2026: The ESSEC Singapore campus, hosted by ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific. With a learning takeaway: From the Singapore Green Plan to the Future of Business Education.

January 22nd 2026: The Shard, London, hosted by Warwick Business School, United Kingdom. With a learning takeaway: Predicting Fraud before it Happens: How early signals can change corporate accountability.

September 26th 2025: The IE Tower, Madrid, hosted by IE Business School, Spain, on the occasion of the CoBS Deans' Seminar 2025. With a learning takeaway: The Next Frontier of Responsible Business Leadership: Insights from Business School Deans.

CoBS Research Pods

The CoBS Research Pod series – condensed learning capsules inspired from internationally published research in the fields of CSR, management, leadership, HR, team and project management, finance, CSR reporting, social enterprise, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and sustainable business practices.

For managers, entrepreneurs, leaders, instructors and those with an interest in research with an impact. Ramp up your knowledge, improve your teams, gain in leadership, reshape your business or give your teaching, training or coaching a new dynamic.

Leadership and Governance

10 ways to be an enlightened leader post-pandemic

Boards of governance and corporate social repsonsibility

How can companies implement ethical, clear, fair downsizing?

Integrity: A blueprint for making it strategic, a CoBS Research Pod based on the work of Prof. Daniel Malan, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. Related research: The Rise and Role of the Chief Integrity Officer: Leadership imperatives in an ESG-driven world, World Economic Forum White Paper 2022.

3 Steps to Build an Inclusive Workplace for People with Disabilities: People with disabilities have the skills. They have the qualifications. They also have the support of national, regional, and international legislation providing frameworks and guidelines for promoting their employment. Yet, results have failed to live up to the expectations and needs of the disabled community. Dr. Armand Bam, University of Stellenbosch Business School, and Prof. Linda Ronnie, UCT School of Management Studies, shed light on the reasons why and offer a practical blueprint for effective disability inclusion strategy.

Most organisations acknowledge the need to transition toward circular models — yet few redesign their operations to achieve it, largely because leaders assume circularity comes at the expense of margins. In reality, well-implemented circular strategies can strengthen resilience, reduce resource dependency, and unlock new sources of value. A practical Pod for managers who want to embed circularity into strategy, KPIs, and day‑to‑day decisions, from Pierre‑Emmanuel Saint‑Esprit, Circular Economy Officer at Manutan Group and Executive Director of the Global Circular Economy Chair at ESSEC Business School.

Prof. Tanusree Jain, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, shares her research on how to set up and implement agile sustainability governance for your supply chain.

Ethical leadership and the influence of Confucius

How leaders can create fun in the workplace: Prof. David Allen, Warwick Business School, looks into the benefits of fun in a working environment, how to create the right factors that lead to it, and how to ensure that fun doesn’t prevent a drop in performance and professionalism.

Revolutionising HR with Analytics and Big Data

Striking the Right Chord: Leadership insights from jazz legends How can business leaders and entrepreneurs learn from the jazz masters? Andy Lockett, Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, together with Deniz Ucbasaran, Professor of Entrepreneurship, offer practical research on leadership – with a difference.

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Management and Teams

Equally or equitably? How should managers treate their team members?

Team excellence. Council on business & Society CoBS Research Pods: Condensed research capsules with a practical action-oriented dimension for managers, leaders, practitioners

A CoBS Research Pod featuring Warwick professor Marianna Fotaki on whistleblowing procedures

Prof. He Peng, School of Management Fudan University, draws on his research to explore why and when employees hide knowledge and proposes 9 strategies to transform knowledge hiding into knowledge sharing that benefits both staff and the company alike.

Ethics & Compliance Management in Firms: How to make it effective: Download the CoBS Research Pod Learning objective: Explore the adopt-implement choice in ethics & compliance management and transfer best practice to your company in order to implement a solid and effective ethics and compliance management system.

When Coaching Sometimes Fails – and How to Make it Co-owned and Effective. Prof. Nicky Terblanche and Snr. Researcher Frederik Kruger at Stellenbosch Business School, look into the flipside of coaching when it fails. As mismatched expectations, broken trust, and organisational detachment undermine outcomes, even well-meant coaching can do harm. The fix? Reframing coaching as a shared responsibility between coach, coachee, and the organisation itself.

How can organisations cater for the expectations of their new generations of employees and foster spirituality and higher purpose? CSR; Buddhism in the workplace; employee wellness; employee wellbeing; HR strategies; workplace management; corporate purpose; spirituality and work; KPIs; how Millennials approach work.

5 Ways to Curb Abusive Management Behaviour in the Workplace. Research suggests that managers’ negative behaviours not only have detrimental effects on employees’ physical and mental health, but also on the purse strings of firms, the state and the tax payer. According to the stats, absenteeism, reduced productivity, and health care costs resulting from abusive management behaviour amounts to an estimated USD $200–350 billion in the USA, USD $64.8–66.1 billion in the UK, and USD $232 billion in Japan. So how can firms help their staff – their corporate heroes – and improve on managers’ behaviours while eliminating the cost to firms and society on the way? Prof. and Deputy Dean Aarti Ramaswami, ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific, draws on her research with Prof. Vesa Peltokorpi of Saitama University to explore how the impact of abusive management on employees’ well-being can be tamed.

How Can Companies Train Employees to Be More Proactive? Employees who take a proactive approach at work benefit themselves and the organisation. Prof. Karoline Strauss, ESSEC Business School, with research on how to achieve it.

As organizations face uncertainty and rapid change; encouraging a proactive workforce that takes initiative; anticipates changes; contributes to innovation and competitive advantage is critical. But attempting to bring about change in an organisation requires effort; cognitive skills; and commitment. It comes at a cost for employees in terms of stress and strain that can sap their personal resources as outcomes of their efforts are uncertain; because of potential resistance and conflict with others; because of the need to manage one’s emotions while trying to stay on course; or because difficult decisions have to be made.; So how can companies and organisations encourage proactivity while effectively ensuring the wellbeing and performance of their employees?

Improving the effectivenes of surgical teams: What can vertical or flat-hierarchy in hospital teams teach us? Why does why surgical team failure and patient death paradoxically lead to more effective surgical teams? And how does Prof. Yufei Huang’s research give an incredible 18 minutes, 37 seconds in saved time in the operating room – enough for any high-risk team to make critical decisions and save more lives.

How to adapt organisations to climate change. A CoBS Research Pod.

How to recognise emotions and use Emotional Intelligence to boost service performance. Download the CoBS Research Pod. Learning objectives: Identify the benefits of cognitive ability and positive emotions on the service employee-customer relationship. Plan and implement a strategy for boosting employee service performance within your organisation.

Yoi-Shigoto: The Japanese concept of employee engagement and CSR

Professor He Peng, School of Management Fudan University, How leader integrity can make employee voice stronger

Creating a Positive and Nurturing Environment for Women at Work While many businesses have made considerable progress on diversity, others remain bastions of masculinity. Prof.-Dr. Dulini Fernando, Warwick Business School, puts the spotlight on the barriers that women face in the corporate world and shares the key areas in which managers can help to change that.

Rituals: The secret to effective knowledge transfer - a CoBS Research Pod

Business and Society

How to set up purposeful business in tough environments

How Financial Markets Can Push for CSR. Download the CoBS Research Pod Learning objective: Understand developments in Socially Responsible Investing and use a guideline framework for selecting which green or ethical investment to invest in.

Crowdfunding and win-win giving: Crowdfunding: Win-win giving. Understand how crowdfunding works and find the right approach for entrepreneurs to pitch their innovations and for donators to place their funding using a win-win approach; Philanthropy; corporate giving; crowdfunding; win-win giving; donator strategies; seed funding; entrepreneur; entrepreneurship; start-ups; business ideas; innovation; hybrid giving; hybrid crowdfunding; Arthur Gautier; Tom Gamble; Council on Business & Society; ESSEC Philanthropy Chair; ESSEC Together;

How Purpose Beyond Profit Can Reboot and Reignite Business Schools. Learning objective: Understand the interests and motivations at hand for young people wishing to undertake studies at business schools and the stereotypes surrounding business school education. Learn about the moral self-awareness (MSA) model. And implement a series of strategies and initiatives to transform perceptions and instil higher purpose into your higher education institution.

Anne-Claire Pache Professor, Public and Private Policy Department at ESSEC Business School, Chaired Professor in Philanthropy and co-founder of the ESSEC Social Entrepreneurship Chair, shares her expertise on setting effective objectives and strategy for your corporate giving.

COVID-19 has upended business as usual for higher educational institutions (HEIs) with campuses switching to remote learning almost overnight and universities grappling with grave financial pressure. Vibhas Sukhwani and Rajib Shaw of Keio University, together with Takako Izumi of Tohoku University and Akhilesh Surjan of Charles Darwin University, reveal how HEIs can stay nimble in the face of continuous change by drawing lessons from the pandemic.

How nonprofits can reinvent themselves after mission success: Prof. Sheila M. Cannon, Trinity Business School, draws on her research to provide a framework for nonprofits to gain a second life and new meaning.

Evaluating the Social Impact of Your AI Strategy: As the wonders and perils of artificial intelligence begin to permeate our lives, Luciano Oviedo, Founder and CEO of tech start-up Tempugo WAITX, and Professor Sotirios Paroutis of Warwick Business School share the why, what, and how of their Social Impact Strategy Analysis (SISA) strategy tool – a flexible tool for emerging technology innovators and users to investigate social impact at a number of levels, from individual communities to the society.

Implementing Social Technology: A CoBS Research Pod. Western ideas of development are one of the main sources of social and economic inequalities in non-industrialized countries. In this light, Professors Marlei Pozzebon and Isleide Arruda Fontenelle, FGV-EAESP, provide a 6-step model for checking and implementing social technology that is beneficial, relevant, and sustainable.

CoBS Online Masterclasses

The Council on Business & Society regularly broadcasts online masterclasses on major issues impacting business and society featuring leading faculty, practitioners and special guests. Join the debate!

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Students! How do you see the world in 2050? An Online Masterclass. Have a voice on how you see the future of business, society and planet. Join Profs. Xavier Pavie, ESSEC Asia-Pacific, Adrian Zicari, Council on Business & Society, stakeholder pollster OPPi and students from ESSEC, School of Management Fudan University, IE Business School, and Trinity Business School.

The future and purpose of business education: A debate with Adrian Zicari, Tanusree Jain and Head of UN PRME Mette Morsing

CoBS online masterclass series: From profit maximization to Value Optimization: Accounting for socio-economic and environmental impact

What are the implications for business, society and politics in a post-COVID-19 world?

CSR Expertise: Basic competences and knowledge. A Presentation by Ethel Bonnet-Laverge Head of Sustainability for the Courchevel region & committee member for the 2023 Alpine Ski World Championships

Video: Social enterprise - challenges and opportunities in a new world context

Books

The Routledge-CoBS Focus on Responsible Business book series featuring research insights, key takeaways, food for thought sections and micro-cases for Master's+ students, instructors, and practitioners.

The Routledge and COBS Focus on Responsible Business series provides international and multicultural perspectives on responsible leadership and business practices in line with the UN SDGs.

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Power and corporate responsibility: Power and Corporate Responsibility explores the concept of corporate responsibility and offers a systematic discussion by referring to the following dimensions: understanding responsibility, taking responsibility, governing responsibility, managing responsibility, investing in responsibility, reporting on responsibility and regulating responsibility.

The Employee and the Post-Pandemic Workplace Towards a New, Enlightened Working Environment. The UN Sustainable Development Goals, an increasing interest in Environmental, Social and Governance factors, and the unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered a massive change in how companies and employees view their relationship, the role and meaning of work, and how to adapt to new environments and ways of working. This book covers a key topic for companies and management practice – that of how to create and foster a committed workforce in a post-pandemic era that has seen a radical change in working environments, approaches and employee understanding of her/his career and work-life balance.

Promise, Pitfalls, and Potential of Social Entrepreneurship Positive Change Unleashed

Employee Meaning and Wellbeing The Responsible Organisation Edited By Adrián Zicari, Tom Gamble

Strategic Altruism
Total Strategy Inspired by Kazuo Inamori’s Management Philosophy
By Keikoh Ryu

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Global Voice Magazine #37 The Power of Informed Opinion: Research insights for a better, more objective world

Special issue Harvard BiGS-CoBS Magazine COMPANIES & PURPOSE: Purpose-driven business and its imprint on employees, profit, society, and planet

Global Voice Magazine and special issue magazines

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CoBS Research Pods

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Global Voice Magazine #37

The Power of Informed Opinion: Research insights for a better, more objective world

Special issue Harvard BiGS-CoBS Magazine

COMPANIES & PURPOSE: Purpose-driven business and its imprint on employees, profit, society, and planet