MSC researcher Ana Alacovska wins Sapere Aude grant!

Photo: Independent Research Fund Denmark

Associate Professor Ana Alacovska has received a ‘Sapere Aude’ grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark.

One of 35 researchers to receive a Sapere Aude grant (of a total of 346 applicants), Ana Alacovska has received 6 million DKK to pursue her research project Operative fictions: how popular culture genres get-in-action in social life.

The project will explore the operative influence of popular culture genres on social life, examining how fiction accesses and merges with cognitive, symbolic and material aspects of professional working life in selected organisational domains. The project consists of three sub-projects which will study the role of:

• crime fiction in police investigations
• science fiction in the work of robotics and engineering
• climate fiction in the organisation of radical climate change

Besides Ana Alacovska, the project research team will consist of two Postdocs.

The prestigious Sapere Aude research grants aim to provide ‘excellent younger researchers, i.e. researchers who have carried out top class research in their field, with the opportunity to develop and strengthen their research ideas’, thus targeting ‘top researchers who intend to gather a group of researchers and/or research students, to carry out a research project at a high, international level’ (read more on DFF’s website).

Read about the 2019 Sapere Aude grants in the DFF press release (in Danish). For more information about the project 'Operative Fictions: how popular culture genres get-in-action in social life', please contact Ana Alacovska, aa.msc@cbs.dk.

Mikkel Larsen new Adjunct Professor at MSC

MSC welcomed its new Adjunct Professor in sustainable finance, Mikkel Larsen, on 23 October, when he gave his inaugural lecture in Dalgas Have.

In his lecture, ‘Measuring what matters’, Mikkel Larsen discussed the challenges of establishing credible measuring systems capable of capturing and communicating the impact of Sustainability initiatives, with a particular focus on the role (and potential) of the financial sector.

About Mikkel Larsen

Mikkel Larsen is the Chief Sustainability Officer of DBS – the largest bank in South

Mikkel Larsen between Head of Department Dorte Salskov-Iversen and Dean of Research Søren Hvidkjær.

East Asia. As such,he is responsible for the strategic initiatives relating to sustainability in the bank. He holds a Master of Science in Auditing and Accounting from CBS (1999) and is a State Authorised Public Accountant (2001). He has an Executive MBA from London Business School (2010), supplemented with executive education at Harvard.

The trajectory of Mikkel Larsen's distinguished career in London, Hong Kong and since 2012 in Singapore is noteworthy for the way he has gradually become an internationally recognised expert in green finance of high standing, both in the financial sector, with financial regulators and in the global organisations and networks that address sustainable transitions.

From the vantage point of his current position in DBS, Mikkel Larsen is uniquely poised to inspire and support CBS’s efforts to further develop its edge in research and teaching related to Corporate Sustainability and Responsible Business & Management. He is the author and co-author of a large number of reports and articles on different aspects of green finance and integrated reporting (including a recent report on forest restoration & the role of finance). Moreover, Mikkel Larsen is also a frequent speaker and panelist at Singapore’s foremost universities, NUS, Nanyang and SMU on topics ranging from the purpose of companies to creating sustainable outcomes at scale.

Further information about the new Adjunct Professorship: Dorte Salskov-Iversen, dsi.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.