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Read more at: Corporate activism when the stakes are high
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Corporate activism when the stakes are high

26 April 2023 - How traditional organisations can navigate the space of corporate activism, by Aileen Noonan, Dina Khalifa and Jennifer Howard-Grenville. Published originally in the California Management Review.


Read more at: A day in the life of an IDBE student
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A day in the life of an IDBE student

25 April 2023 - Neiad Adams-Austin is a Traffic Engineer with the London Borough of Waltham Forest and a student on the Master of Studies in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE). Neiad has shared his experience of the programme and has detailed what an average day looks like for him during one of the residential workshops in Cambridge, UK.


Read more at: A day in the life of an IDBE student
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A day in the life of an IDBE student

5 April 2023 - Sonia Green-Browne is a Principal Engineer with Graphite Engineering Ltd and a student on the Master of Studies in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE). Sonia has shared her experience of the programme and has detailed what an average day looks like for her during one of the residential workshops in Cambridge, UK.


Read more at: Board Leadership - Why the diversity of your board matters so much
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Board Leadership - Why the diversity of your board matters so much

16 March 2023 - Diversity is critical for board leadership. This is a central plank of our point of view. But what sort of diversity? In this fourth in a series of blogs examining questions of board leadership and governance, Prof Richard Calland tries to get under the bonnet of a difficult and delicate subject.


Read more at: At CISL, we’re committed to building a greener future for everyone
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At CISL, we’re committed to building a greener future for everyone

16 March 2023 - Concerns about the environment have become one of the defining issues of our times, writes Eliot Whittington, Chief System Change Officer at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.


Read more at: Driving systemic change within the finance sector: an educator’s perspective
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Driving systemic change within the finance sector: an educator’s perspective

23 February 2023 - Drawing on his experience delivering executive education programmes to leaders in the finance sector, CISL Programme Director Thomas Vergunst considers perceptions of the need for systemic transformation - the extent of the change required, mechanisms for progress and the role of business in delivering transformative change.


Read more at: Solvency in the age of emergency: how should new EU policy and the industry incorporate risk?
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Solvency in the age of emergency: how should new EU policy and the industry incorporate risk?

21 February 2023 – Both decisionmakers and insurers must together find a way of addressing the climate and ecological risks that complicate adaptation and mitigation strategies. The revision of EU Solvency rules could be a key opportunity to integrate sustainability in risk management of insurers, argue Ursula Woodburn and Nina Seega.


Read more at: Is the polycrisis a call for urgent action on Social Injustice?
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Is the polycrisis a call for urgent action on Social Injustice?

26 January 2023 - In this blog, Priya Rajasekar and Elspeth Donovan, convenors of the 8-week open online course on Business and Social Justice, argue that the ‘polycrisis’ which has emerged as a buzzword at the recently concluded World Economic Forum at Davos could be addressed effectively through collaborative business leadership and action on social justice. The authors call for a critical and collaborative engagement with the systemic and institutional legacies of social injustice that have permeated business thinking and action as a way to lead the transformation out of this crisis.


Read more at: Following COP15 how can businesses overcome financial barriers to investing in nature-based solutions?
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Following COP15 how can businesses overcome financial barriers to investing in nature-based solutions?

24 January 2023 – Edmund Dickens and Elizabeth Clark from CISL's Business and Nature team unpick perceived financial barriers to investing in nature, and some methods to overturn these and unlock the opportunities of nature-based solutions.


Read more at: Collaborative leadership? It’s what a sustainable future in the built environment sector requires.
Collaborative leadership? It’s what a sustainable future in the built environment sector requires.

Collaborative leadership? It’s what a sustainable future in the built environment sector requires.

25 January 2023 - Dr Tim Forman, Senior Research Associate and Deputy Director of the Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment ( IDBE ) postgraduate courses, described how 'shared leadership' was central to the refurbishment of Entopia, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership's (CISL) new home. A type of collaboration that is vital to navigating the new reality of the built environment sector. This empowering and collaborative approach to sustainability also underpins CISL’s part-time accredited and non-accredited education programmes for built environment professionals.


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