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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

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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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Looking for Partners with business / economics skills

Mark McCormick
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University of Lausanne
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Information Systems

After watching a report on RTS (see link below) in which the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is an important

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Unravelling the paradox: Green preferences sustain greenwashing

Lukas von Flüe
Lukas von Flüe Research highlight 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
Garen Markarian & Alexander Semionov Research highlight 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
Duncan Pollard & Sébastien Houde Commentary 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
Guido Palazzo Commentary 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
Guido Palazzo & Quentin Gallea Research highlight Grand challenges Education
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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The grandest challenge: Overcoming un-sustainability

Philipp Censkowsky
Philipp Censkowsky Commentary Planetary boundaries Post-/ or degrowth Climate and sustainability
This is an appeal to conceive today’s grand societal challenges as interconnected problems of sustainability. The prime question asked is therefore how current un–sustainability can be overcome by...
April 3, 2023
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Welcome to the Grand Challenges Blog @ HEC Lausanne!

The Editorial Team
Philipp Censkowsky, Arianna Pisciella & Robin Schimmelpfennig Blog news
“Grand challenges are formulations of global problems that can be plausibly addressed through coordinated and collaborative effort”  (George et al. 2016)  Contributing to this coordinated...
March 30, 2023
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Why “Retire” a Youthful Idea? The Coming of Age of the Grand Challenges Concept

Patrick Haack
Patrick Haack Commentary Grand challenges Paradigm shifts
A response to Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, and Charlotte Traeger, “The Future of Grand Challenges Research: Retiring a Hopeful Concept and Endorsing Research Principles.” Published in the International...
March 30, 2023
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The Future of Grand Challenges Research: Retiring a Hopeful Concept and Endorsing Research Principles

Christian Seelos
Christian Seelos & Johanna Mair Research highlight Grand challenges Paradigm shifts
In our research, we examine discourses that shape the strategies and resource allocation processes of organizations in the philanthropic and development sectors. Discourses often become fads with surprisingly...
March 30, 2023
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