BY JESSICA GUO The second of three Company Snapshots, these research-based pieces by guest author Jessica Guo look at aspects of successful companies that can be examined for strategy and information of benefit to both active businesses and the academics that study them. See our first company snapshot examining culture and values at Costco. Company Snapshots: “Don’t Buy Our Products” – Ethics at…

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Ethical Systems’ Breaking the FeverPodcast Series on Climate Change – Episode 6 In episode 6, Dr Jill Atkins, Chair in Financial Management, Sheffield University Management School, outlined a global agenda for finance, business, and biodiversity. The pandemic is finally bringing business and investor attention to biodiversity issues, which are comparable in scale and impact to…

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Ethical Systems’ Breaking the FeverPodcast Series on Climate Change – Episode 1 Opening the series was Chicago-based strategist Michele Wucker, author of the international bestseller THE GRAY RHINO: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore. Her recent Washington Post article, “No, the coronavirus pandemic wasn’t an ‘unforeseen problem’“ challenges the idea…

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Ethical Systems’ Breaking the Fever Podcast Series on Climate Change – Introduction In this launch episode, Human Risk podcast presenter Christian Hunt interviews the curators of the Breaking The Fever series Alison Taylor of Ethical Systems and Jérōme Tagger of Preventable Surprises.

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Ethical Systems’ Breaking the FeverPodcast Series on Climate Change – Episode 26 In this episode, the third (and final) in our miniseries on climate finance, we speak with Colleen Orr and Graham Steele about how regulators in the United States can wield financial tools and soft power to set public- and private-sector organizations on a…

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In this episode, the second in our miniseries on climate finance, we speak with Peter Bosshard and Elana Sulakshana about the insurance sector’s role in maintaining status-quo climate policies, and what insurers can do to halt the development of more fossil-fuel infrastructure. We discuss: What might happen if insurers didn’t provide insurance for new gas…

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