“To quota or not to quota” to accelerate women’s participation in boards and, in general, in leadership positions? To some, that’s the way to walk faster on the sometimes rocky path to achieving gender parity. Like in all human-centred matters, when it comes to diversity matters nothing is black or …
There’s this very old myth related to work life. Once you step inside the office (both physically or virtually during these COVID-19 times), you should leave your feelings at the door. It’s a place for productivity, impartiality and efficiency, and feelings are seemingly contrary to these objectives. Reality isn’t really …
Sustainable Finance and ESG have taken a hold of the market and are moving from niche to mainstream by now. Asset Managers (AMs) are changing the once recurrent question of why integrate non-financial factors—notably Environmental, Social & Governance—to ‘how’ it is actually done. For all financial market players, going into depth …
A social listening analysis of the Food & Beverage sector The last few years have seen a focus on the role business plays in society. This has been exacerbated by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. There is a sort of awakening, people seem to be …
Think of corporate responsibility. Then, situations linked to people, nature, pollution, climate change and philanthropy come to your mind. Now, think of technology, and smartphones, drones, virtual reality and, almost unavoidably, artificial intelligence are recalled. We tend to dissociate them because, in principle, they belong to different dimensions, the real …
Carl Sagan, American astronomer, cosmologist and astrophysicist wisely said The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the …
Intrapreneurship is a loaded word. It might sound very 21st-century, but its five syllables are older than that, and so is its meaning. The term “Intrapreneur” dates back to 1978, when Gifford Pinchot and Elizabeth Pinchot coined it in the book “Intra-Corporate Entrepreneurship” while attending Tarrytown School for Entrepreneurs in …
