Sustainability
Check your privilege to keep your privilege in check
Smaranda Boroş, Professor of Cross-Cultural Management, at Vlerick Business School, Belgium, reflects on the current situation. I am an absolute loner. I admit that most of the time I am enjoying this reclusive period in my life. But as more and more time passes in solitary confinement, I understand better and better why prison is…
Read MoreCovid-19 Weekly Update from the Experts at Grenoble Ecole de Management Issue No.4
Grenoble Ecole de Management brings to you its fourth Covid-19 issue with opinions from its Experts on the evolutions they foresee in crisis communications, culture, innovations in health, consumer behavior and customer relationships, both during and post the pandemic. Communication: how can we avoid falling into Coronasurfing? When the key principles of crisis communication meet…
Read MoreCovid-19 Weekly Update from the Experts at Grenoble Ecole de Management Issue No.5
Grenoble Ecole de Management brings to you its fifth Covid-19 issue with opinions from its experts on the evolutions they foresee in confinement and productivity, history repeating itself and higher education strategy. Confinement: does our time have to be profitable? The MEDEF (the leading network of entrepreneurs in France) is calling out to work twice…
Read MoreImplications of COVID-19 for Public Health and the SDGs
The COVID-19 global health pandemic is rapidly changing the ways we live and work. In the age of sustainable development and at a time when the world is working towards achieving the SDGs, this disease is complicating SDG implementation efforts as well as posing a real risk to achieving targets on communicable disease, education, life…
Read MoreHappy Learning! Education for a Sustainable and Happy World
According to the World Happiness Report, there is a strong correlation between achieving sustainable development and self-reported measures of wellbeing. Moreover, generosity, trust, and a strong sense of community are equally important as income when it comes to happiness—how, then, do we teach the values, knowledge, and skills needed to achieve sustainable development and, therefore,…
Read MoreGrenoble Ecole de Management Covid-19 Experts Updates – Issue No.3
Covid-19 Weekly Update From Grenoble Ecole de Management’s Experts Issue No.3 #Togetherathome Grenoble Ecole de Management brings to you its third Covid-19 update, with opinions from its Experts, on the global evolutions they foresee in: labor loaning, universal basic income, cultural models, bank rescue plans and the luxury industry. Issue No.1 (higher education, technology, environment…).…
Read MoreCOVID-19, 5G and Educators
Over the past weeks, I have been reflecting on my next theme for this blog. The last one, months ago, suddenly became obsolete since it was written in the pre-COVID era, and the world is no longer the same! Like so many, I have been dedicating a great deal of time to taking in the…
Read MoreScientists: circular economy is not only about recycling
Lithuania, like other small open economies in Eastern Europe, is often characterized by linear production and consumption. Despite the European Union (EU) initiatives to prompt practical implementation of the principles of the circular economy, the problems of insufficient production from natural resources, relatively short product consumption term and small product reuse, limited waste recycling and…
Read MoreMenu For Year’s End Dinner: Hope
Yes, the year’s end looms over our heads weeks before it actually happens, with accumulating tasks on our to-do list. There is the urgent and the important; the postponed and what we don’t want to carry over to next year, and what would be so nice to finish. In midst of that frenzy it’s easy…
Read MorePathways to inclusive growth: financial inclusion at the bottom of the pyramid
The gap between the wealthy and poor around the world continues to grow. In order to reduce this gap, it is necessary to implement policies that will achieve inclusive growth through democratizing productivity. This means the extension of basic rights so that everyone can access and participate in vital networks of services and know-how which…
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