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Management of Change

Management of Change

Lida Mantzavinou

Skyguide internship opportunity on Management of Change within the Transformation team Topic: Applying Management of Change in Virtual Centre touchdown

THE LUXURY TRANSPARENCY & TRACEABILITY INDEX

THE LUXURY TRANSPARENCY & TRACEABILITY INDEX

Margot Stuart

The Swiss Center for Luxury Research (SCLR), IMD and OriginAll, through an E4S (IMD, UNIL & EPFL) initiative, has been

THRIVE Impact Summer School: Call for MAPA Expert Collaborators

THRIVE Impact Summer School: Call for MAPA Expert Collaborators

Rachel Brooks

The Competence Center for Social Innovation at the University of St.Gallen (CSI-HSG) is currently has an open call for expert

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Utopias

Special Issue – Utopias

The Editorial Team
Philipp Censkowsky, Arianna Pisciella & Robin Schimmelpfennig Blog news
Call for contributions for our Special Issue on Utopias: In his ingenious book ‘The Ministry for the Future’, novelist Kim Stanley Robinson popularized the genre ‘climate fiction’ and visualized both...
April 17, 2024
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Intangible sustainability values for business and society

Wouter Savrij Droste
Commentary Wouter Savrij Droste Business sustainability Responsibility Education Values
On November 16 2023, Wouter was invited to a Breakfast Research and Practice seminar hosted by the Research Center for Grand Challenges at HEC Lausanne. The aim was to share his experiences and pioneering...
April 15, 2024
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Nation building successes and failures matter to the EU and OECD 

Dominic Rohner
Commentary Dominic Rohner Security
By Dominic Rohner, Professor of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), University of Lausanne, and Research Fellow, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)  From...
February 1, 2024
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Can NFTs Support Organizing in the Future of Work?

Patrick Nicolas Tinguely
Research highlight Patrick Nicolas Tinguely & Yash Raj Shrestha Alternative futures
Emerging technologies are constantly evolving and shape how we organize work within organizations. Building upon design principles of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), our Point of View article...
January 8, 2024
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Water, climate change and digitalization: the role of university teaching in equipping future leaders to deliver on SDG 6

Mark McCormick
Commentary Guillaume Fery & Mark McCormick Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Water
On October 12th, Guillaume and Mark were invited to a Breakfast Research and Practice seminar hosted by the Research Center for Grand Challenges at HEC Lausanne. The aim was to share their experience and...
December 12, 2023
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Unravelling the paradox: Green preferences sustain greenwashing

Lukas von Flüe
Research highlight Lukas von Flüe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The allure and deception of green labels We often hear that we as consumers have the responsibility and the power to support reaching the Sustainable Development Goals with our consumption decisions....
November 29, 2023
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Private Equity: Greenwashing Galore

Garen Markarian
Research highlight Garen Markarian & Alexander Semionov Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Climate finance Sustainable Finance
We are awash with ESG slogans – companies often include a glorified caption of how they care about their employees, environment and our children’s future. This has reached a point where we are flooded...
October 17, 2023
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Climate: The End of the Road for Current Solutions?

Duncan Pollard
Commentary Duncan Pollard & Sébastien Houde Post-/ or degrowth Climate and sustainability Energy
The HEC Research Centre for Grand Challenges held a Practice and Research Seminar on 16th March 2023.  Duncan Pollard and Sébastien Houde debated our current corporate and economic approaches to climate...
June 7, 2023
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Enlightenment 2.0 - The unfinished legacy of Giordano Bruno

Guido Palazzo
Commentary Guido Palazzo Alternative futures Post-/ or degrowth
Man is not at the center of the universe. In fact, the universe has no center. There are many suns, surrounded by many planets and on some of them there might even be life forms comparable to ours. This...
May 16, 2023
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Reimagining Academia in the Face of Urgent Global Challenges 

Guido Palazzo
Research highlight Guido Palazzo & Quentin Gallea Education Grand challenges
The world is not in a good shape. When Rockström and colleagues defined the ecological crisis along nine different planetary boundaries – from global warming to the extinction of species in 2009, they...
April 20, 2023
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