Closing workshop of the VELUX Endowed Chair in Corporate Sustainability

The VELUX Endowed Chair in Corporate Sustainability held its last activity on 17 January 2020 when members of the Chair gathered for an internal closing workshop entitled ’What did we do and where are we going?’.

Following the last public event, From Global Goals to Local Impact: Implementing Corporate Sustainability, held in June 2019 in collaboration with the Governing Responsible Business research

environment, this marks the end of the VELUX Endowed Chair. However, the work continues within the CBS Sustainability centre. The former VELUX Professor of Corporate Sustainability, Jeremy Moon, is now Director of CBS Sustainability.

Read more about:

• CBS Sustainability
• The 2020 closing workshop ’What did we do and where are we going?’
• The 2019 public event, From Global Goals to Local Impact: Implementing Corporate Sustainability.
• MSC VELUX Endowed Chair and CBS World Class Research Environment - coming to the end of a five-year period of collaboration.

For further information, please contact Jeremy Moon, jm.msc@cbs.dk.

MSC researchers host workshop in Beijing on leadership development

In 2019, Eric Guthey and Esben Karmark from MSC received an extraordinary activities grant from the Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research to organize a workshop entitled “Where Will New Leadership Ideas and Practices Come From?” as part of their research project on leadership development in China.

In the process of organizing the event, they partnered with the Beijing II Hub of the Global Shapers Community, a network of young people under the age of 30 working together to address local, regional and global challenges. Initiated and sponsored by the World Economic Forum, the Global Shapers Community includes more than 7,000 members across 369 city-based hubs in 171 countries.

Eric and Esben ended up hosting their workshop as part of the Beijing Global Shapers’ Social Impact Week, from December 8-14.

With additional sponsorship from Lego China, they worked with the Shapers on the leadership challenges they face as a social change network,  they contributed to several other panels and activities during the week, and they participated in a conference at WEF’s Beijing offices with Global Shaper Communities from across China.

Esben Karmark also gave the closing address at the Shapers’ Impact Beijing Un-Conference, hosted at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (photo above).

For more information, see the Social Impact Week Vlog, created by Fan Hongyi (Troy) from the Global Shapers Community, or contact Eric Guthey, eg.msc@cbs.dk.

MOOC on Sustainable Fashion

Based on their long-standing research on sustainable fashion, MSC researchers Professor Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen and Postdoc Kirsti Reitan Andersen have launched a new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) together with Sustainable Fashion Consultant Ana Lucia Diaz Schiavon.

The title of the course is Sustainable Fashion and it focuses on sustainable business models for the fashion industry.

Targeting students and practitioners alike, the course centers on a practical introduction to sustainable business model theory and a wide variety of inspirational examples from the industry. The course contains expert interviews, animations and case examples from Denmark as well as abroad.

The Sustainable Fashion Course, which has been developed by CBS and SokFok Studio, is offered by Coursera, an internationally recognized platform for online courses. All videos are also available on Honest Fashion.

For more information, please contact Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen, ergp.msc@cbs.dk .

The Department of Management, Society and Communication

The department came into existence on 1 January 2017 as a result of the merger of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management and the Department of International Business Communication. Read about MSC's research profile here.

MSC moved into its new premises in Dalgas Have in August 2017. As one of CBS' largest department, it occupies most of the second floor of the building.