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Innovating Farming with Mobile Phones - Interview...

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2012/09/08

oikos UNDP Academy participants recently paid a visit to iHub, the innovative ICT hot spot located outside the city center in Nairobi, to discuss Kenya's booming ICT sector. After a Panel Discussion on ICT and Development Student Reporter Lindsay Shafer sat together with panelist Linda Kwamboka, co-founder of M-Farm, an innovative mobile phone application that aims to encourage farming by transitioning it from a subsistence-based model to agribusiness. Listen to the interview at the bottom of the

00:12:30

An Anthropologist's perspective on Fair Trade, CSR...

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2012/09/08

At the 2012 Development Academy Student Repoerter Lindsay Shafer had the chance to speak to Catherine Dolan, Fellow of Green Templeton College and University Lecturer at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, on her research past and present, and how it fits in with the Academy's theme. Being an anthropologist, Catherine provides a perspective in market research management scholars are often not familiar with. She emphasizes the unique role of the oikos academy to bring together multiple

00:10:24

Both Sides of the Coin: Markets and Sustainability -...

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2012/09/08

Student Reporter Lindsay Shafer sat down with Christopher Yenkey, Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy at the Unversity of Chicago Booth School of Business during the oikos UNDP Young Scholars Development Academy 2012 to discuss research and sustainability in emerging markets. Chris' research focuses on the construction of nascent financial markets in developing economies, specifically the establishment of the Kenyan stock exchange.A lot of previous fieldwork in emerging markets has

00:07:58

Taking Academics out of Theirs Comfort Zone: About...

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2012/09/08

Klaus Weber, Associate Professor of Management & Organizations at the Kellog School of Management at Northwestern University, sat down with Student Reporter Lindsay Shafer and discussed his views on oikos' unique program of giving Ph.D. students a platform to discuss their research with with peers and Academy faculty. While it is still important to go to larger conference and network with people in your field, doing what you do, it is also important to meet people who can give you a different view

00:10:52

Principles for Sustainability: Sufficiency,...

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2012/07/25

Thomas Princen is Associate Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan. He has a background in biology, political science and economics and his research focuses on issues of social and ecological sustainability with a primary focus on sufficiency. In this podcast Professor Princen shares his views on sustainable organisations and, specifically, whether an organisation can be sufficient, efficient and grow at the same time. We also discuss how the principles

00:09:22

Oxfam America and Swiss Re – From the Authors of the...

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2012/05/27

Jonathan Doh, Professor of Management at the Villanova School of Business, Director of the Center for Global Leadership, and Rammrath Chair in International Business, is talking about his case “Building and Scaling a Cross-Sector Partnership: Oxfam America and Swiss Re Empower Farmers in Ethiopia” which won the second prize in the 2012 oikos Global Case Writing Competition. Jonathan explains how and why this case was written, how it can be used in the classroom and which other methods can be used

00:05:27

Creating Shared Value- can it be measured? Chat with...

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2011/10/10

What is Shared Value? Is this value measurable, and how do you convince business to pursue Shared Value in addition to profit? Find out about the roles of family businesses, how businesses can combine growth with shared value, and why leadership by example is so important with Marc Pfitzer, Managing Director of the Geneva Office of FSG Social Impact Consultants and Harriet Jackson, President oikos International. Check out Creating Shared Value article in the Harvard Business Review January 2011

00:10:30

Business schools cancerous to society? - Chat with...

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2011/09/30

Kim Poldner, oikos PhD Fellow, participates at the Eeastern Academy of Management in Bangalore 2011 and chats with Professor James A.F. Stoner about h

00:11:45

Research in renewable energy management - interview...

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2011/09/28

Liudmila Nazarkina, oikos PhD Fellow at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Raja Singaram, doctoral candidate at the University of Twente in the Netherlands are in Filzbach, Switzerland at the oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy for researchers in the field of cleantech entrepreneurship, finance and policy. Their guest is Dr. Itai Sened, Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Prof. Sened is the Director of the Center for New Institutional Social

00:13:31

Teaching sustainability management with cases -...

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2011/09/28

Liudmila Nazarkina, editor of the oikos case quarterly and oikos PhD Fellow at St Gallen University explores how sustainability can be taught with cases. Her guest is Michael Russo, the Charles H. Lundquist Professor of Sustainable Management at the University of Oregon. Michael is an author of several cases on mission-driven companies, including an oikos winning case on Seventh Generation. Michael is also a noted researcher and an author of an award-winning book published in 2010 and titled

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