Leaders who seek to guide their companies through ESG transitions should strive to develop seven competencies, a review of literature and practice from Nyenrode Business University and KPMG reveals. According to Dr. Muel Kaptein, Equity Partner at KPMG and speaker at the ESG Innovation Institute, these competencies are compassion, curiosity…

Responsible management at the heart of the new ‘MSc in International Business and Development’ at the University of Sussex Business School International business leaders need to rapidly respond to concerns surrounding social and environmental issues, whilst also understanding the need for firms to achieve financial returns for shareholders. This is…

The network of informal ties we build in the workplace is key to our success and performance. Yet, researchers at ESMT Berlin find we often build networks that hamper our performance. Professors Gianluca Carnabuci and Eric Quintane, both from ESMT Berlin, investigated how and when people build networks that allow…

Following its success at ESCP Business School’s Paris and Berlin campuses in the previous academic year, ESCP London Campus joined in offering its students the opportunity to learn about the cause and effect of climate change. …

A ‘Corporate Sustainability’ framework, developed at Nyenrode Business University, guides organisations through making seven-step strategic decisions which increase profits and also positively impact society and the environment. The framework was designed by Professor Annemieke Roobeek (Strategy and Transformation Management) and Professor Jacques de Swart (Applied Mathematics) from Nyenrode, and Myrthe…

The ESCP Finance Society (EFS) successfully completed the ninth edition of its annual Banking Trek. For the first time since COVID-19, the Banking Trek took place at the offices of participating institutions in London and Paris. It was also the very first multi-city event since the EFS was established. The…

Feeling vulnerable is often associated with weakness, but in some cases it can become a source of strength, reveals new research from Linköping University and Aalto University School of Business. Alice Wickström, from the Department of Management Studies at Aalto University School of Business, co-authored a study into diversity management…

In developing a new framework, researchers from Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) Erasmus University Rotterdam, have unearthed new and underexploited ‘fields of gold’ associated with web data. The RSM researcher along with colleagues from Tilburg University, INSEAD, and Oxford University, sought to demystify the use of web scraping and application…

A series of new deputy directors have been appointed at UCL Global Business School for Health, the world’s first health-focused business school. Launched in September 2021, UCL GBSH has been appointing accomplished academics and other practitioners to important roles within the school as they prepare to welcome their first cohorts…