Paris 2024: A Model for Greener Games
Atalay Atasu, Luk Van Wassenhove
July 30, 2024
With a bold ambition to halve greenhouse gas emissions, the Paris Olympics and Paralympics are raising the bar for future international events. International sporting events are hardly associated with sustainability – not when organising a massive event successfully is in itself a tall order on many fronts. For the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics, we’re talking […]
Can Financial Innovation Drive the Net-Zero Transition?
Lucie TeplaJuly 30, 2024
Promising new financing solutions are paving the way to net zero but organisational, governmental and socio-political roadblocks remain. In recent years, financial markets have seen many initiatives aimed at mobilising capital for the net-zero transition. These range from climate-related disclosure requirements that help investors and lenders better integrate climate into capital allocation decisions, to financial […]
How Can Companies Rethink the Idea of Productivity?
Henrik BresmanJuly 24, 2024
By broadening their definition of productivity beyond conventional metrics, organisations can nurture a happier and healthier workforce to achieve better overall performance. Traditional productivity metrics are used by many companies to assess the value that employees bring to the organisation. These tangible, quantifiable and results-based measurements include work quality and output, efficiency and the number […]
Do Corporate Insiders Behave When the SEC’s Not Watching?
Daniel A. Bens, Geraldine EeJuly 23, 2024
The 2018–2019 US federal government shutdown provided important insights into insider trading in the absence of the watchdog. The United States narrowly escaped yet another government shutdown at the start of this year, which would have been the fourth US government partial shutdown in the last decade. But as the world’s largest economy heaved a huge sigh of […]
Connecting Across Disconnections
Daisy Pollenne, Kaisa SnellmanJuly 17, 2024
Amid recent pushback, maintaining robust diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives will require a coordinated, comprehensive approach. It’s a tough time to be talking about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Many companies in the United States – including tech heavy-hitters such as Google and Meta – have been scaling back on diversity initiatives and doing away […]
Can You Collaborate With Someone You Compete Against?
Thorsten GrohsjeanJuly 17, 2024
When team members compete outside of the workplace, their relationship and willingness to cooperate take a hit. In December 2022, the world watched in awe as Argentina’s Lionel Messi and France’s Kylian Mbappé lit up the World Cup final. Playing at a top international tournament for their national team is the pinnacle of any footballer’s career. […]
How Africa Can Embrace Venture Capital
Claudia Zeisberger, Edwin ObonyoJuly 9, 2024
Education, local perspectives and stronger networks can help unlock the continent’s investment potential. According to the African Development Bank, 11 African countries currently feature in the top 20 fastest-growing global economies. The organisation’s latest Outlook Report estimates that real GDP (gross domestic product) growth for the continent is expected to average 3.8 and 4.2 percent in 2024 and […]
America’s Problem With Its CEO
Ludo Van der Heyden, Peter NathanialJuly 9, 2024
The US imperial leadership culture, embodied by President Biden clinging on to power and former President Trump’s abuse of it, risks damaging American democracy. The US presidential election debate has delivered its verdict, produced new insights and raised new questions. The question we focus on here is why the richest country on earth has presented […]
Accounting for Sustainabilityz
Luk Van WassenhoveJuly 1, 2024
Can accountants and auditors become agents for real social change and make businesses more sustainable? In today’s business environment, where the insatiable desire to grow profits overshadows environmental and social interests, it is easy to overlook how the actions of economic actors can shape corporate – and environmental – outcomes. In the accounting […]
Is There a Fault in Fault-Finding?
Andreas Janz, Horacio FalcãoJuly 1, 2024
Constant focus on mistakes or flaws creates a hostile and stressful environment, which can be demotivating, affect personal well-being and stifle professional growth. Failing to identify faults seems to be a prevalent issue nowadays, considering recent reports of quality control problems at Boeing and numerous recalls by car manufacturers, to name a few. Yet, excessive […]