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Mission to Change Podcast
Mission to Change What are the personal journeys of people behind business as a force for good? Join our Founding Executive Director, Katell Le Goulven, every month as she speaks to inspiring figures who have transformed their businesses and initiatives to drive positive change. What were their challenges, why did they choose to walk the… Read more >
INSEAD focuses on Gender Inequity Issues at ChangeNOW 2022
For the fourth consecutive year, INSEAD was the major academic partner of the ChangeNOW Summit (19th May – 21st May). At the world’s largest event for the planet, with more than 33,000 participants in person from 117 countries and 742 million online views, INSEAD unveiled brand new academic research at the Grand Palais Ephemere. This year’s edition of ChangeNOW, founded by… Read more >
Advancing Path to Net Zero and Family-Owned Businesses as Forces for Good at Davos 2022
INSEAD’s Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society convened faculty and experts at the SDG Tent at Davos to discuss the path to Net Zero and family-owned businesses as forces for good. Listen to INSEAD Deputy Dean, Peter Zemsky and Hoffmann Global Institute Executive Director, Katell Le Goulven, give their key takeaways at Davos 2022… Read more >
Are Business Schools Working Together?
“The scientists are coming together to think about moonshots. But we, in business schools, are still working separately.” said Peter Tufano when Soumitra Dutta and I interviewed him for our book, “The World After Covid”, April 2020, during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Do you agree with him? Of course, business schools do… Read more >
GBSN-CFTE: Center for Excellence in FinTech
“CFTE and GBSN co-develop the world’s first Center for Excellence in Fintech, connecting academia to practice to accelerate the development of Fintech education” As Fintech is becoming more prominent in financial services, training programs from government and universities must continuously evolve. It’s in that context that GBSN and CFTE announce their collaboration to promote Fintech… Read more >
Greenwashing: How ads get you to think brands are greener than they are – and how to avoid falling for it
But are these ads truly reflective of improvement when it comes to production practices, or is this just another example of greenwashing – when companies present an exaggerated or even false image of having a positive impact on the environment? Thanks to a growing body of research, there are a number of things you can… Read more >
NUM Ranked in WURI’s Top 50 Universities of Real Impact
Cambodia’s National University of Management (NUM) on Friday announced that the Committee of Hanseatic League of Universities, which organizes the annual World’s Universities with Real Impact (WURI), ranked NUM in the top 50 of the “WURI 2022: Global Top 100 Innovative Universities”. It said that NUM was in the top 50 for 5 innovative projects… Read more >
ABCC Top 6 Teams Announced
We are proud to announce the Africa Business Concept Challenge Top 6 Teams! The Top 6 Teams presented business concepts that stood out from competitive and diverse submissions. Breaking out from an initial 78 teams with over 290 students from 17 countries and 46 schools, we are proud to share the Final Pitch Presentations from… Read more >
Time to go Back to the Basics of African Nutrition to Solve the Continent’s Food Insecurity Problem
Lumumba was speaking at a webinar commemorating Africa Day on Thursday, 26 May hosted by the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at Wits Business School, in partnership with the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS), the Southern Africa Youth Forum, (SAYoF), the Philanthropy Circuit, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Harvard… Read more >