In this podcast oikos Student Reporter Melissa Paschall is interviewing Eliada Nwosu Griffith, Senior Lecturer at the GSB Cape Town, South Africa. Eliada is elaborating on her research objectives and the transformative ambition of doing research – She examines the social embeddeness of both social and small commercial enterprises within the African…

Ignasi Marti Lanuza, Associate Professor at EMLYON is reflecting with oikos Student Reporter Melissa Paschall on his academic journey and process of developing an academic identity. In the podcast he is also elaborating on how to identify appropriate theories for analysing phenomena and theorizing. He is finally reflecting about his experience as a…

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 appl…

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 persp…

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 fina…

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…

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 sustai…

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…

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 Impac…

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

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Lea Fuenfschilling, doctoral student at EAWAG Aquatic Research Institute Zurich, and participant at the 1st oikos Young Scholars Organizations Academy on Culture and Sustainability interviews Jennifer Howard-Grenville. Jennifer recently became Associate Professor of Management at the University of Oregon and since her PhD at the Massachusetts Insti…

Bryan Gallagher, doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University and participant at the first oikos Young Scholars Organizations Academy in Appenzell, Switzerland interviews Davide Ravasi. Davide is an Associate Professor of Management at Bocconi University, associate editor of the Journal of Management Studies, and a member of the editorial board of…

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. I…

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 a…