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Involvement in social enterprise gives students untold benefits
Keep-On-Keep-Up, Clintouch, Give Me Tap, 4Lunch, The Ash Company, Invisible Manchester and Bundlee. These are just some of the social enterprise businesses that the University ...
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Companies should consider consumer perceptions when launching greener products
Companies need to think about both positive and negative consumer perceptions when launching greener products, says Jonatan Pinkse. The fact that global sales of electric ...
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The risk of disturbances to global supply chains
Whether it’s the huge impact of the pandemic, or the recent blocking of the Suez Canal, the risk of disturbances to global supply chains has ...
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Rebuilding the foundations – decent work after Covid-19
The foundational economy needs to be central to Covid-19 recovery plans, say Mat Johnson and Eva Herman. For a brief window during the height of ...
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The UK’s ‘greenish’ recovery: good intentions but lacking clarity and ambition
A year into the pandemic, Guillermo Pereira, Jonatan Pinkse and Frank Geels ask what the UK has achieved in terms of its much heralded green ...
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How to deal with ‘mediocre’ managers
Damaris Albarran offers her tips on how to manage working relationships with ‘mediocre’ managers. Following the publication last month of the Good Finance Framework, a ...
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How do hi-tech start-ups grow?
The fact that so many high-tech start-ups end up being acquired by large multinational corporations has bothered me for a long time. What precisely is ...