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Two academics and a Director from Warwick Business School are sleeping outside in the middle of December to raise money to help combat the impact of addiction and homelessness.

Explore the biggest challenges in today's business world as the Core Insights podcast brings the best of academic research and industry together in each episode.

Ola Wlodek has been named one of the UK’s most influential women in the biomedical sector for her pioneering work in trying to find a cure for motor neurone disease.

An undergraduate has turned his clothes-designing hobby into a business thanks to a scholarship from Warwick Business School.

Change management is a big issue for leaders. Fahmi Jabri (pictured) has found the Kübler-Ross Change Curve a useful tool in guiding his team through the sudden changes brought about by the pandemic.

Best-selling title named Strategy Book of the Year by Strategy + Business magazine as accolades grow.

Shweta Singh reveals how AI is changing the nature of shopping online and in reality.

David Allen looks at the specific challenges hybrid working creates for companies in their quest for the identification and development of talent.

Regulators and consumers want companies to properly measure and reduce their carbon footprint, but how many are including their supply chain? Surprisingly few. Frederik Dalhmann reveals how it should be done.

Haley Beer details the many methods to measure a company's impact on society and why it is increasingly important that firms do

There have been plenty of announcements by governments at COP26 but the world needs business to move towards net zero as well. Frederik Dahlmann details the five steps firms need to take now.

Warwick Business School has been named number one for sustainability in the UK for the fourth year in a row by the Better World MBA Ranking.

To reach net zero the UK and much of the developed world has to stop heating their homes and building with gas. But how do you persuade people to spend thousands on alternatives like heat pumps? David Elmes finds out.

Former Bank of England MPC member Paul Fisher details what central banks can do to help in the battle against the extreme effects of climate change.

To reach net zero by 2050 will mean all of us changing our behaviour, but how do you persuade people at scale to change their habits of a lifetime?

The private sector is slowly wilting under the pressure to change its way and think more about saving the planet than shareholder maximisation. Frederik Dahlmann reveals how a new ecosystem can help drive change.

One of the roles of COP26 is to educate the general public on what they need to do to stop climate change. However, Nick Powdthavee's study has found more will be needed to change people's actions

Former WBS undergraduate Victoria Azubuike is celebrating after winning a National Diversity Award for her ground-breaking US Programme.

Is the world heading for a new energy order following the pandemic? Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, paints four future scenarios that could come to fruition.

Emma Macdonald and Hugh Wilson have developed a game to help people understand the interrelatedness of the issues around saving the planet and how a whole system change is needed.

Governments are spending billions, if not trillions, in their attempts to recover, avoid recession and restore growth. This presents an opportunity to re-engineer economies to 'build back better', making economic recovery 'green' and sustainable.

WBS Professor Kim Hoque joins forces with charities and unions to outline steps for Government and businesses to address disadvantages faced by disabled workers.

Two Warwick Business School academics will be hosting the Exploring Sustainable Futures Game at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26.

WBS Professor of Global Energy Michael Bradshaw will be one of 17 delegates from the University of Warwick attending the global climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow in November.

Many organisations believe once they have a strategy everything will fall into place. But Sotirios Paroutis reveals why executing it is an even harder battle.

The pandemic has exposed staff shortages and issues for healthcare systems around the world. Graeme Currie takes a close look at the issues in the UK with policies that have global resonance.

Leaders have had to deal with one of the biggest challenges in history - the global pandemic. Dimitrios Spyridonidis details how this has changed leadership and what leaders need to do in this new post-pandemic world.

Daniel Read uses George Eliot's renowned novel Middlemarch to deliver six very important lessons for anybody about to enter a negotiation.

Angel Investor Randeep Wilkhu's passion to start-ups with a social purpose has seen him join music megastar Will.i.am's I.AM+ company, which is developing the next generation of digital assistants.

Nick Powdthavee, Professor of Behavioural Science and author of The Happiness Equation, reveals what winning the lottery does to people after a French couple won a record £184 million.

It is all very well after several away days to devise a strategy, but will it actually get implemented by the staff on the ground? Pietro Micheli outlines three steps to ensure it does mean a shift in direction for an organisation.

A expert on foreign direct investment, Nigel Driffield has worked tirelessly to bring overseas firms and jobs to the West Midlands thanks to his pioneering research.

Warwick Business School’s Executive MBA has been ranked fourth in the UK and 26^th in the world by the Financial Times.

Data science students at a summer programme have used AI to predict a region’s offline population based on various data sources including satellite images and Facebook user numbers.

Billions of dollars are invested every year by instituitions like the World Bank to help entrepreneurs grow, but Mona Mensmann's research reveals a new type of training could prove far more effective - especially for women.

AI is infiltrating every industry and part of a business, but it comes with potential biases and ethical issues. Isabel Fischer lists the five reads you need to know if your AI is ethical.

WBS Black in Business member Kehinde Ogunnimo believes more companies need to put in place proper structures and processes to promote black talent rather than just speaking about it.

Jane Egerton-Idehen has risen from the slums of Lagos and overcome barriers to be one of Facebook's few senior black women and is now trying to show others how to follow her path.

Mani Yanika is building a property booking platform with sustainability at its heart and to cater for the post-pandemic world where more of us will be working at home on our own.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared that the UK is moving to a "high-skill, high-wage" economy, but Nigel Driffield explains how this won't happen without increases in productivity.

The UK Government has spoken of 'levelling up' disparities as part of its economic recovery plan following the pandemic. Nick Powdthavee believes they start with the entrepreneurial gender gap.

Evergrande is the most indebted company in the world and it could go under. Qing Wang examines the repercussions if the property goes under.

Students looking to do a PhD in business, management and finance can now apply for a place on a fully-funded five-year programme at Warwick Business School.

A WBS academic has been nominated for the Distinguished Achievement Awards 2021 dubbed the “Oscars of management thinking”.

AI is becoming all pervasive and causing many policymakers to worry about its negative impact on jobs. But Jochem Hummel and his colleagues argue it can also have a profound impact on some of the world's biggest challenges.

Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular way for start-ups to get going, but will venture capitalists, who have the serious money, still be interested in them? Christos Kolympiris sets out three steps to make sure they are.

KPMG recently announce it wants nearly a third of its senior staff to be from a working class background by 2030. Marianna Fotaki, Professor of Business Ethics, explains why all companies should do more to reduce inequalities.

The gas price crisis has lifted the lid on the UK's stark energy resources and the threat of the lights going out this winter. Michael Bradshaw details the web of complexities that has put the country in such a precarious position.