The Sustainable Business Podcast
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Welcome to the Sustainable Business Podcast. In this podcast, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, professor of sustainable business at the University of Mannheim, interviews experts on how we can make the sustainability transformation effective. The podcast is made for sustainability professionals, but also students, and anyone interested in sustainability management.
The Sustainable Business Podcast
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In this episode of The Sustainable Business Podcast R. Edward Freeman, a distinguished professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, joins Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons as her guest. As a leading expert on stakeholder theory and stakeholder management, Ed’s expertise has been pivotal in shaping these concepts. Over the course of his career, he has gained a wide range of experiences and has worked in a variety of areas. His journey includes examining stakeholder theory during his PhD in Philosophy, working as a consultant, teaching at Darden University, writing influ ..read more
The Sustainable Business Podcast
1y ago
Uwe Bergmann, Director ESG Business Integration at Henkel, joins Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons as a guest in this episode of The Sustainable Business Podcast to discuss past and current challenges in sustainability management. Based on his experience of more than twenty years at Henkel, he was lucky enough to build on the expertise of important sustainability pioneers, working towards standardization and certification approaches, formulating sustainability visions, and implementing them in strategy and practice. For him, achieving the vision of 9+ billion people living well within the l ..read more
The Sustainable Business Podcast
1y ago
Prof. Dr. Andrew King, Questrom Professor in Management at Boston University, is Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons’ guest in this week’s episode of The Sustainable Business Podcast. He elaborates why, despite potential positive effects on the management level, the concept of ESG does, per definition, not imply positive effects of a firm on the planet. He shines light on the conditions that pose challenges to impact measurement and valuation: economic, environmental, and social dimensions are all embedded in their own systems, and complex dynamics make complicate the search for a single metr ..read more
The Sustainable Business Podcast
1y ago
How can innovators and corporations help to foster social innovation? How can we create long-term solutions for pressing social issues like the refugee crisis?
In this episode of Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons’ Sustainable Business Podcast, Zarah Bruhn, founder of the social startup Social Bee, shares experiences from her career in a venture capital company, from her journey as a founder, as well as from her new role as Commissioner for Social Innovation of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Having started as a social entrepreneur looking for suitable funding op ..read more
The Sustainable Business Podcast
1y ago
The current transformation of the legal landscape in Germany and the EU highlights a promising trend towards more corporate social responsibility. Nevertheless, many companies lack the knowledge of a suitable starting point. How can they design their activities and strategies to become more sustainable and avoid harm, e.g., through human trafficking and modern slavery?
In this episode of @Laura Marie Edinger-Schons’ Sustainable Business podcast, @Anahita Thoms explains where companies should start when choosing their strategic CSR priorities and why improving financial performance, supply chai ..read more
The Sustainable Business Podcast
1y ago
How can a FMCG business create a sustainability impact? How can the business measure it? And how can it communicate this impact to consumers so that they can grasp their potential role and start to engage? Sebastian Stricker, the founder and CEO of Share, was Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons‘ guest and discussed these questions with her. Reflecting on his career, he shares insights on how he began to understand the extent of global food insecurity while working for the United Nations World Food Program. He describes what it took to start „Share the Meal“, his first startup, and how he hope ..read more
The Sustainable Business Podcast
1y ago
How can organizations achieve unity in diversity? How can new forms of organizing create large-scale change? What are the roles of scholars, and how do they engage with complexity? And how can digital transformations have an impact on work, organizing, and leadership? In this episode, Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons talked with Dr. Ali AslanGümüşay, Head of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Society Research Group at Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, who focuses on all these questions in his research. Ali shares insights on his idea of an engaged scholar and what challenges engag ..read more
The Sustainable Business Podcast
1y ago
Reducing the pace of fashion: how can a business model for a sustainable fashion retailer look like? What are the biggest challenges along the way towards slow fashion? And why should you stick with that favorite pair of jeans as long as you can?
In this episode of the Sustainable Business Podcast, Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons hosts Isabelle Kempf, founder of Mannheim’s sustainable fashion store “Umgekrempelt”. Isabelle discusses how she was inspired by her grandmother secretly repairing the holes of her favorite jeans, and how very personal customer and stakeholder relationships conti ..read more
The Sustainable Business Podcast
1y ago
Dawn Slevin has worked on the development of the EU taxonomy, co-chaired the do no significant harm technical screening criteria across four objectives, and contributed to an EFRAG paper on good company reporting on risks and opportunities and its linkage to sustainable business models. In this episode, Dawn shares insights into her work at the EU and discusses good practices and chances of sustainability reporting with Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons. Dawn explains the idea behind the EU taxonomy and its implications for sustainability reporting. Additionally, she addresses good practice ..read more
The Sustainable Business Podcast
1y ago
ristina Jeromin is Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons’ guest in this episode of “The Sustainable Business Podcast”. Since 2018, Kristina Jeromin is Managing Director of the Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany, acted as Vice Chair of Sustainable Finance Advisory Board of the German Federal Government from 2019 to 2021 and continues to be a member. During her prior work at Deutsche Börse Group in sustainability communication and as Head of Group Sustainability, she experienced the transition from sustainability approaches rather focused on charity to an increasing ESG materiality foc ..read more