Written by: Garima Singh Bhadauria, Aniket Navghare, Neha Ingale, Bhavesh Pandey One of the articles that our professor of Financial Management ask us to summarize was: ‘The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Value: The Role of Customer Awareness’ it was published online in ‘Articles in Advance’ on January 8, 2013, by Henri Servaes and
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Written by: Luis Maceda The traditional financial system fails in terms of accessibility and their services were placed out of reach of the poor. The rich have always received high access to financial services compared to the poor. Microfinance was born in the 70’s as a mechanism of poverty alleviation and financial inclusion. The
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Johan Rockstrom talks about the Earth´s resources and humanity. Let see this amazing video. “…. Elinor Ostrom, Nobel laureate of economics, clearly shows empirically across the world that we can govern the commons if we invest in trust, local, action-based partnerships and cross-scale institutional innovations, where local actors, together can deal with the global commons
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Interesting point of view from Robert Muggah, about the risks that are facing big cities. “… Cities are where the future happens first. They’re open, creative, dynamic, democratic, cosmopolitan, sexy. They’re the perfect antidote to reactionary nationalism.” “…Cities have a dark side, they take just up the 3% of the world´s surface area, but they account
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Interesting point of view from Kai-Fu Lee (computer scientist) about how Artificial Intelligence is transforming the World, but there’s one thing it cannot do: love. “… It is here to liberate us from routine jobs, and it is here to remind us what it is that makes us human.”
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Companies today face various challenges in such a competitive business environment. Performance in the supply chain is considered to be one of the most critical issues in various industries. It has a vital impact on efficient supply chain management. Over recent decades, there are several frameworks and systems have been developed to meet this need
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Interesting point of view from Andrew Dent about waste and thrift. “… We consider materials when they go into products and also when they get used, and, at the end of their life: When can they be used again? It’s the idea of completely changing the way we think about waste, so waste is no longer a dirty word…”
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Today firms face the challenging need to rapidly adapt to the changing business environment; Nonetheless, it seems the key differentiation not only relays on the ability to evolve, transform and adapt products and services to market trends, but to foster and balance the economic growth to synergistically coexist and transcend both profitably and sustainably. Additionally,
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Interesting point of view from Olivia Tyler about sustainability and supply chain. ” …. What if we could combine machine learning, as an application from AI and blockchain, not just to identify traces, but to validate and ensure the right thing from raw material to finished product was done correctly all the way through the
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Interesting point of view from Kate Raworth about how to create regenerative and distributive economies that work within the planet´s ecological limits: “The humanity´s 21st-century challenge is clear: to meet the needs of all people within the means of this extraordinary, unique, living planet so that we and the rest of nature can thrive. Progress on
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