Open for Registration: The 2021 student CSR article competition

The Prizes

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• Student articles published on CoBS Insights, the Council Community blog

• Student articles published in a special  issue of Global Voice magazine

• CoBS Participant, Finalist, Runner-up and Winner certificates

• €500 equiv. cash prize for each winning article in each school.

The Competition

The Council on Business & Society launches its 2021 student CSR article writing competition, open to the Council’s member-school students from all programmes from undergraduate to graduate/PhD levels:

• ESSEC Business School: France, Singapore, Morocco campuses

• FGV-EAESP: Brazil

• School of Management Fudan University: China

• IE Business School: Spain

• Keio Business School: Japan

• Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin: Ireland

• Warwick Business School: United Kingdom.

The Topics for your articles

If you’re a student currently studying in one of the above schools, passionate about responsible leadership, CSR, CSV, sustainability, responsible finance, diversity and inclusion, and social entrepreneurship, then the invitation is open to write and submit a 1,000 to 2,000-word article in English in MS Word format.

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Your article must be based on one of the following:

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• We citizens are clients, and sometimes we are also investors. We want good products, produced ethically and at an affordable price. At the same time, we also want our investments to be profitable. How to achieve an acceptable compromise? 

• How has the pandemic given more importance to the role of women in business and society? 

• How can firms achieve "technology for good" in business practice?

• In the present context, characterized by interconnectivity and the need for economic reactivation, how might companies leverage the power of community to advance the alignment of their business objectives with the wellbeing of humans and the planet?

• How can leaders manœuvre the Covid challenge: Save the company or save the employees?

• How can organizations leverage their innovative capabilities to reduce their environmental impact?

• The dream and reality of normalization bias: difference and similarity across region, industry, and individual value recognition.

How to enter for the competition

Please register to enter the competition via your School Coordinator indicated below, using your school e-mail address and mentioning the studies you are currently following. Mails received using other provider addresses will be considered automatically ineligible for the competition. Registration and submission is from February 11th to March 30th 2021 inclusive.   

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Upon registering via your school Coordinator, you will receive a student article writing guide providing the competition rules, timeline and tips on writing your article.

Contact your School’s Coordinator to register:

• Mr. Tom Gamble, ESSEC Business School: gamble@essec.edu

• Prof. & Deputy-Dean Tales Andreassi, FGV-EAESP: Tales.Andreassi@fgv.br

• Mrs Elsa Huang, School of Management Fudan University: hzhuang@fudan.edu.cn

• Mrs Mariana Luciano, IE Business School: mariana.luciano@ie.edu

• Mr Hiroshi Takagi, Keio Business School: hiroshi.takagi@kbs.keio.ac.jp

• Mr Ian Dunne, Trinity College Dublin Business School: ian.dunne@tcd.ie

• Mr Warren Manger, Warwick Business School: Warren.Manger@wbs.ac.uk

• View the 2019 and 2020 competition winners.

• Read the 2019 and 2020 winner, runner-up and finalist articles in Global Voice magazine

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