Social Impact

This category is Social Impact, exploring business strategies that drive positive change in society. It features expert insights on corporate social responsibility, sustainability, ethical leadership, and initiatives that create lasting economic and social benefits.

ESG

Developing a Strategy for Managing Non-Financial Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Risks and Opportunities

By Tim Bovy, Ian Hodges, and David Ryan In Business, everything flows from strategy. Strategy requires that organisations prepare detailed assessments of risks and opportunities,...

Corporate social responsibility – does sustainability come into it?

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) means businesses operate in a way that benefits both society and the environment at large. Some debate that business sustainability,...

The Russian Federation, President Putin and the Russian Military are Financially Liable to Ukraine...

By Charles H. Camp, Kiran Nasir Gore and Lilia Chu The ongoing crisis prevents the Ukrainian public from accessing judicial remedies in Ukraine or Russia...
The Fungibility of Environmental, Social, and Governance Reporting

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...
Vee

Volunteering Platform Vee Gets $12M Funding as It Seeks to Help Companies Give Back...

Tel Aviv-based corporate volunteering platform Vee announces the completion of a $12 million fundraising round, less than a year after it launched its platform....
ESG

New GRI Standards Helping Companies Improve their Focus on Sustainability Reporting

ESG sustainability reporting is the new norm in the corporate world. Investors, customers, and government agencies are all asking for sustainability reports to decide...
SDG-led Innovation

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...

Activating Lasting Resilience For Climate Change

By Malavika Bambawale  No one could have predicted the impact of COVID-19 and the challenges it presented. It exposed vulnerable supply chains, crumbling infrastructure, and...

Small business? Energy savings are still a big deal. Here’s why.

When we think of improvements in energy costs and carbon footprints, it’s easy to cast our minds to the big guys. Sure, a supermarket...

Crowdsourcing Disaster Response: Mobilizing Social Media for Urban Resilience

By Thérèse F. Tierney As urban populations continue to expand worldwide, natural disasters are precipitating increased challenges to public health, welfare, and safety. Informal methods,...

The Role of Ethical Values in Economic Value Creation

By S. Ramakrishna Velamuri and William Harvey Values integration in businesses keeps the highly competitive world humane. In this article, the authors elaborate not only...
Monsane Ratchapruek - Pinklao

Leading the Future: Siamese Asset’s Award-Winning Commitment to Green Building and Sustainable Living

Siamese Asset has emerged as a visionary leader in Thailand's real estate market, demonstrating a consistent devotion to sustainable living and innovation. Their recent...
Stakeholders

How enterprises can create meaningful purpose together with their stakeholders

By Nicholas Ind and Venkat Ramaswamy Before the onset of COVID, there was a seeming shift in the idea of why business organizations exist....

Seeing The Light

By Christoph Burger, Jens Weinmann, Antony Froggatt, and Catherine Mitchell With the emergence of decentralised energy, such as wind, solar, or biomass, as a major source for power generation,...
Sustainable Buildings

Sustainable Buildings: Planet, People, Profit,

By Serhii Chernyshev Sustainable development is the course that has been chosen on the global level by the governments, businesses, and common people. Green or...

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...
Gerry Zack

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...
Transformation of Education

New Outlook, New Educational Curricula And Proactivity

By Dr Mario Raich, Dr Kristine Marin Kawamura, Dr Simon L. Dolan, Dr Paweł Rowiński and Mr Claudio Cisullo  PART II: Towards A Visionary Prescriptive Transformation...
Sustainable Finance

Can the Zero Waste Movement Lead to Sustainable Finance?

By Shannon Bergstrom In recent years, many people have started to question the way they deal with their waste. Whether it’s people trying to transition...
sustainable business

6 Sustainable Businesses in France with Innovative Approaches 

According to Statista, Paris is among the greenest capitals in Europe since the tree cover rate in urban areas is about 20%. Although it’s low...

People and the Planet – CSR Initiatives Sweeten Ferrero’s Success

By Tammi L. Coles For global businesses to thrive, “doing sustainability” is no longer an option. Tammi L. Coles spoke with recognised CSR researcher and...

The Hidden Costs of Our Fast Paced Consumer Culture

By Felix Yim We have become wild in the way we consume products and items nowadays. It has become literally competitive, as survival has remained...

OSI Group Partners With Beef Producers to Improve Sustainable Grazing Efforts

OSI Group, one of the world’s leading global food providers, has recently developed partnerships with like-minded members of the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef...

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GenAI: Prompting A Better Marketing Strategy

By David Dubois and Joerg Niessing Amid the rise of GenAI, executives must master prompt crafting to optimize their marketing and sales strategies. In the ever-evolving world of digital marketing, the ability to craft impactful, audience-centric...
talented running colleagues

Navigating the New Frontier: Embracing Talent 5.0 While Paving the Way for Talent 6.0

By Iolanda Triviño, Simon L. Dolan, and Pedro Cesar Martinez In the changing world of employment, it's more important than ever to understand the shifts in talent dynamics that are defining our future as organizational...

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Navigating the New Frontier: Embracing Talent 5.0 While Paving the Way for Talent 6.0

By Iolanda Triviño, Simon L. Dolan, and Pedro Cesar Martinez In the changing world of employment, it's more important than ever to understand the shifts in talent dynamics that are defining our future as organizational...

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