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14th Annual Research Conference
June 5 – 8, 2022
Hosted by Bocconi University
13th Annual ARCS Research Conference
June 21 – 24, 2021
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13th Annual Ivey/ARCS PhD Sustainability Academy
November 12 – 15, 2020
London, Ontario, Canada • Hosted by the Ivey Business School at Western University
And the wind cries “materiality”
Andrew King
“Political language”, George Orwell wrote, is designed “to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.[i]” But I do not need to tell you that, because you probably work in “corporate sustainability” and thus know from direct experience what Orwell is talking about. The meaning of “corporate sustainability” has always been pretty windy, and yet…
Why Activist Hedge Funds Target Socially Responsible Firms, and How Executives and Investors Can Counteract Them
Rodolphe Durand 
Mark DesJardine
Danone’s CEO had to leave his position under the pressure of increasingly powerful and influential activist hedge funds. With their controversial tactics aimed at maximizing shareholder profit, they undermine sustainability practices, which they consider wasteful. Indeed, not only do they tend to suppress the corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of the companies they target, they…