The Age of Sustainable Development: Sustainable Development as an Analytical and Normative Concept
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Achieving sustainable development on our crowded, unequal, and degraded planet is the most important challenge facing our generation. In this excerpt...
Emergency Call Systems A Potential Weapon To Boost The ROIS In Medical Facilities
It is an inevitable fact that the navigation of the landscape of medical facilities can be backbreaking if smart strategies and the latest tools...
The Fungibility of Environmental, Social, and Governance Reporting
By Tim Bovy and Ian Hodges
For all organisations, there is the need for ESG reporting to be interoperable because it impacts the ability of...
“Managing by Values” (MBV): Innovative tools for successful micro behavioural conduct
By Anat Garti and Simon L. Dolan
“Values values on the wall, just do the business and forget them all” wrote Liran and Dolan (2016)1...
A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates
By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich
Introduction
The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
Smart Lighting Solutions: What Is Lighting as a Service?
Lighting plays a crucial role in everyone’s daily lives. It provides safety and comfort as well as enhances productivity in different settings. However, traditional...
Zero-Waste Living: A Beginner’s Guide
Zero-waste living is becoming increasingly popular as more people recognize the importance of reducing our impact on the environment. While the transition to a...
Are Digital Technologies the Planet’s Last Best Hope? (If bananas are anything to go...
By John Bates
Humanity’s destructive ecological footprint is only getting bigger and effective solutions are needed more than ever. Below Dr. John Bates explains...
Sustainable Business Model Innovation to Create Value in a World of Finite Resources
By Christophe Sempels & Jonas Hoffmann
We have jumped into an era of scarce resources. The related impacts will crescendo in the coming decades but...
Asot Michael Urges No-Nonsense Plan to Antigua & Barbuda Economic Recovery
We are not out of the woods just yet. Global cases for coronavirus may be dropping, but more nations are reporting variant strains emerging....
Tech Giants Embrace Women’s History Month: Insights on Appreciation and Corporate Culture
By Vladimir Polo
History
United States, 1911 the Socialist Party of America organized International Women's Day to honor the women's labor movement.
California, 1978, the first Women's...
The New Responsibilities Of Companies In A Time Of Increasing Inequality and Climate Change
By Enrico Sassoon
Time was, when it was generally accepted that companies were only there to generate wealth for their shareholders. Now, in a more...
Engaging Stakeholders for Circular Economy Success
By Arne De Keyser, Katrien Verleye, Néomie Raassens,
and Alex Alblas
Leading companies such as Philips, Renault, and IKEA are embracing circular business models to reduce...
Water Sustainability Strategies For UK Businesses (2022)
Saving water in 2022 is becoming more than just a recommendation; it is becoming necessary to slow down global warming and preserve groundwater levels...
Ecological Gold – A New Gold Standard
Anna Moltke-Huitfeldt, Jewellery in Life
Anna Moltke-Huitfeldt, Jewellery In Life, works with ecological gold from the Oro Verde (Green Gold) mining project in Colombia, a...
Why The Circular Economy Matters
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Khaled Soufani
A Circular Economy represents not just a paradigm shift that waste is reconstructed to resources through reuse...
Let’s STRIDE Towards UN SDG-led Innovation
By Mike Cooray, Rikke Duus, Joanne Carmichael, and Marius Sylvestersen
It has never been more urgent for entrepreneurial, public, and private organisations to join forces...
Essential Criteria for Selecting a Reliable Seed Bank – The Complete Guide
When it comes to cultivating your garden or starting a new agricultural venture, choosing the right seed bank is crucial. The quality of the...
The Role of pH in Food Control
Acidity is a vital part of food safety and taste. A sharp twist of lime or a splash of vinegar can help to turn...
Empowering Queer Women in the Business World
By Polly Shute
The Importance of Visibility and Inclusion
The empowerment of queer women within corporate settings is not only a moral obligation but also...
Kazakhstan and UAE Heads of State Agree to Expand Cooperation
Kazakh President, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, met UAE President, Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed, in Abu Dhabi. Both leaders will support transforming CICA into a full-fledged international...
Women’s Rights in Indonesia
By Kathryn Robinson
The 32-year rule of the Suharto New Order regime (1966-98) socially engineered gender roles in the service of authoritarian rule. The democratic...
ESG Investing — Help Us Build a Better Future
Changing the world is never an easy task. In fact, some people will tell you that it’s an impossible one. Yet, even if that...
The Permanence of ESG
By Tim Bovy
Globally, we are poised at an economic inflection point and mired in a political interregnum. As a result, business, led by institutional...
Board Responsibility under the FCPA
By Thomas R. Fox and Ryan Morgan
The nightmare of every corporate director is to wake up to find out that the company of the...
European E-waste Crisis: Tech Wastage Piles High as Research Reveals Two-thirds of Businesses Lack...
65% of European businesses do not have an environmentally sustainable process in place when it comes to disposing of IT devices.
This is...
Two Women, One Mission: Joey Horn and Nalini Malani – On Empowerment, Humanity, and...
Across the globe, women around the world continue to experience hardships, inequalities, and contention. Fighting to champion the rights and privileges of all,...
Easy Being Green: Why the Internet of Things Will Help Sustainability
By Joy Tan
The Internet of Things is just one of the technologies that is re-shaping the world. It is not only perceived as a...
Scaffolding? 5 Ways to Prevent Mishappenings
The spine is the most important part of our body. It is the support system that holds us. Without it, we will collapse.
Just like...
Fulfilling Corporate Social Responsibilities and Injecting Digital Intelligence Into Sustainable Development
17 June 2022, Shenzhen, China - ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile...
4 Ways London and its Built Environment is Changing Positively
A city’s built environment – the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity – is an important factor for residents’ quality of...
Going paperless: all you need to know
If you’re a bit of a traditionalist and love making notes in a notepad or printing everything out so you have a hard copy,...
Big Business Models Are Back-to-Front Create Long-term Value By Putting Shareholders At the Back-end...
By Paul Strebel
Large firms have been treating their shareholders as their most critical stakeholders. In the short run this might make sense, but not...
Are Millennials Driving More Sustainable Homes?
Millennials are responsible for driving a lot of new trends and services. As they make up a large proportion of consumers, businesses are constantly...
The coronavirus vaccine: What it means for business and the recovery
While 2020 has been dominated by the coronavirus and the strain it has placed on public health systems and economies worldwide, there’s hope that...
How do UK Local Authorities Tackle Air Pollution in 2020?
Air pollution is a problem that central government has increasingly left to local authorities. This approach, on the face of it, makes sense –...
The Wheelchair Industry in Europe: A Comprehensive Overview
As the population of Europe ages, the wheelchair industry is growing. In this blog post, we will take a comprehensive look at the wheelchair...
Landmark London Carbon Emissions Report – How Will it Impact Public Sector Tendering?
On 27 June, a joint report commissioned by the Greater London Authority, London Councils and ReLondon – a partnership between the mayoral office and...
The Cycle of ESG and Compliance
By Gerry Zack, CEO of Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics® (SCCE) & Health Care Compliance Association® (HCCA)
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have...
3 European startups fight against climate change
The ultimate buzzword for sustainability and humanity is climate change. It’s proliferated in the speech of many politicians. Nevertheless, climate change isn’t just a...
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Leadership Failure was a Predictable Surprise
By David De Cremer
In today’s more developed global village, responsible leadership is of paramount importance especially from businesses that make use of digital platforms....
How to Use Your Eco-friendly Approach as a Selling Point
As the market for eco-friendly and sustainable consumer goods grows and marketing campaigns emblazoned with environmentally conscious messages begin to reign mainstream advertising, what...
New Leadership for a Sustainable Future
By Matt Gitsham
At the close of COP26, an article in the Financial Times reported that although global executives welcomed the deal reached at the close...
Are Electric Bikes Eco Friendly? Is It Safe For The Environment?
We are thriving in a scientific breakthrough, in which we are going to witness the most latest advancements. Even so, there had been an...
Building the Future on a Century of Heritage: A family business on the move–for...
Interview with Max Viessmann, CEO of Viessmann Group
If knowledge is power, then shared knowledge must surely be the way for a company to maximise...
Bridging the Circular Economy and Social Enterprise: The Dutch Ministry of Defence...
by Khaled Soufani, Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, Giorgos Dimitriou and Panayotis Kikiras
A holistic approach to circular economy is the one that merges the mission-driven...
4 Important Vaccines Covered by Medicare for Seniors
It is estimated that the Black Death killed about 60% of Europe’s population. If not for modern medicine, a similar fate could await us...
Sustainability and Eco-Friendly Practices in Automated Packaging
In a world where we are constantly pushing to look after our planet, businesses are trying to do all they can to reduce their...
Your Workforce is Crying out for Sustainability Skills. It’s Time to Skill up...
ESMT Berlin’s latest executive education program, Sustainable Business Transformation, sets out to equip business leaders with the skills required to implement sustainability strategies across...
Evicting UK Tenants in Lockdown Areas: What Landlords Need to Consider
Covid-19 has impacted life in countless ways. While the initial lockdown period is now behind us, more local lockdowns are still being declared in...
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Feel to Deal: The Power of Emotions in Negotiations
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The key to a successful negotiation is not embedded in knowledge or reasoning ability but in applying emotional intelligence. This essay explains the role of emotions...
We Need to Talk About Women Bullying Other Women at Work & 6 Key Things We Can do to Change it
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The truth is out: women are not supporting each other enough in the workplace. Despite efforts to advance gender equality, the latest global gender gap report reveals only a 1% increase annually...
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