Global Voice 20

This 20th very special issue counts 112 pages, with a guest Editorial by John North, Director of the GRLI (Global Responsible Leadership Initiative), 19 articles from 37 faculty and practitioner contributors in two sections: Business, Society, Planet and Management & Leadership. GV20 also sees the return of our successful double-page feature cartoon with a wry comment on a business and society issue, and an end-of-year CoBS history timeline. This issue gathers perhaps the largest and most varied number of contributors ever featured in Global Voice magazine. In addition to the CoBS member schools covering 4 continents, we’re delighted to highlight two very special guest institutions – Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada, and University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa. We also welcome CSR-spokespersons Prof. Andrew Crane of CBOS University of Bath and Dirk Matten, Schulich School of Business, Director of Strategy and author Emilie Prattico of BCG BrightHouse and a spotlight on the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative by Director John North. And last but not least, we reach across to the other side of the planet and Australia, with the kind permission of Monash Business School, University of Monash to feature one of their thought leadership insights in this magazine. Covering current hot topics and lasting major issues – the climate crisis, women at work, leadership in the 21st century, the future of CSR, inclusivity and disability employment, social impact, philanthropy, conscious business, and mentorship among others – Global Voice magazine offers you the unique international and multicultural expertise of the Council on Business & Society faculty and guests. On behalf of the CoBS member schools – ESSEC Business School, FGV-EAESP, School of Management Fudan University, IE Business School, Keio Business School, Trinity Business School, College Dublin, and Warwick Business School – we warmly wish you, our readers, a very happy, safe and peaceful festive period and hope you enjoy this Christmas and New Year Global Voice magazine.

Welcome to Global Voice magazine #21 – Out of the Tin Can This spring issue of the Council on Business & Society’s quarterly magazine contains 96 pages of research and opinion-based articles featured in two sections – Business, Society and Leadership & Management. We’re delighted to include a special double-page dedicated to two new CoBS Deans – Dean Lee Newman and Dean Yu Sakasume – having respectively taken up their functions at leading member institutions IE Business School, Spain, and Keio Business School, Japan. This issue’s Editorial also features a spotlight on the unique value case studies bring to the learning experience, co-authored by Richard McCracken, Director of The Case Centre, the world’s leading independent home of the case method, and Prof. Adrian Zicari of the Council on Business & Society. A wry and playful glance at business buzz words – and maybe even the state of our hectic modern society – is included in our double-page cartoon penned by Tom Gamble of the CoBS and illustrated by Matthieu Anziani of ESSEC Business School. And, as usual, hats off to the superb Global Voice graphic design by CoBS Head of Design Mélissa Guillou. Faculty, practitioner and student articles provide the bread and butter of this issue, with topics covering big data and customer value, how to manage remote working, designing mentorship programmes, TechForGood, greening up supply chains with circular economy strategy, non-financial social and environmental disclosure, and a spotlight on smart cities in Japan among others. And lastly, you may ask why this issue carries the subtitle Out of the Tin Can? The temptation is to say that it’s up to you to interpret it – for there are many interpretations possible! Some of these might point to the David Bowie classic, Space Oddity, and the fact that, at last, many of us in our societies are once again able to step out of the confinement imposed by the pandemic to breath freely again. Another interpretation, hand in hand with the snappy front cover image, might refer to Andy Warhol’s iconic pop art, consumerism or simply the tastiness of the contents the tin cans hold – a little like the insights in this magazine, if I dare say! And lastly, the shades of green to the cans give the message that our ‘consuming society’ might well contain a new – and more responsible, sustainable – taste to it. In any case, we hope you download this Global Voice #21 issue, open it up and consume its insights with immoderation! Enjoy your reading!

This Global Voice special 10 Years Anniversary issue #18 is: 186 pages 28 articles – faculty research-based and student winners and finalists from the 2021 CoBS CSR article competition 8 Faculty ‘Top Reads’ articles (receiving most views and reads) from the last 5 years From 34 contributors An Editorial co-authored by Prof. Adrian Zicari, Executive Director of the Council on Business & Society and Prof. Mette Morsing, Head of UN PRME A centre-spread timeline showing key moments and achievements in the Council’s 10 years of existence And a special 10 Years’ Anniversary position statement from the Deans of the Council’s schools.

The G20, or Group of Twenty, is an international forum consisting of 19 countries and the European Union. It was established in 1999 to promote international financial stability and sustainable economic growth. The G20 represents about 80% of the world's GDP, and its members include the United States, China, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, and many other major economies. Global finance and business strategies are topics of great importance in today's interconnected world. The global financial system plays a crucial role in facilitating trade, investment, and economic growth, while businesses operate in an increasingly competitive and rapidly changing environment. Strategies for success in this environment must take into account factors such as technological advancements, changing consumer preferences, and geopolitical risks. This book will explore these topics and provide valuable insights for policymakers, business leaders, and investors. It covers a wide range of topics, including macroeconomic trends, financial regulations, international trade, and corporate strategy. The book "G20: Global Finance & Business Strategies," is likely to focus on the role of the G20 in promoting global economic stability and the strategies that businesses can adopt to succeed in this environment.

The world is entering a new technological age in which great changes are expected in all areas of human interest, life, and activity. These changes have been brought on by past and present man-made events, which have had both positive and negative consequences. Learn how AI, service robots, and voice control will affect tourism.

Multivocality frames vocality as a way to investigate the voice in music, as a concept encompassing all the implications with which voice is inscribed-the negotiation of sound and Self, individual and culture, medium and meaning, ontology and embodiment. Like identity, vocality is fluid and constructed continually; even the most iconic of singers do not simply exercise a static voice throughout a lifetime. As 21st century singers habitually perform across styles, genres, cultural contexts, histories, and identities, the author suggests that they are not only performing in multiple vocalities, but more critically, they are performing multivocality-creating and recreating identity through the process of singing with many voices. Multivocality constitutes an effort toward a fuller understanding of how the singing voice figures in the negotiation of identity. Author Katherine Meizel recovers the idea of multivocality from its previously abstract treatment, and re-embodies it in the lived experiences of singers who work on and across the fluid borders of identity. Highlighting singers in vocal motion, Multivocality focuses on their transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, between religious contexts, between found voices and lost ones.