FT Business Education Research Insights

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• AI tools enhance judgment of relevance of research to society

  Tech-based analysis for the FT shows how business schools’ work is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals

  
• Patents signal positive impact of business school insights on innovation

  Researchers express satisfaction that their work has been cited by companies in patent applications

  
• Funding mix raises questions over impact of business school research

  The low level of external grants compared with endowments potentially reduces accountability and real-world outcomes

  
• Balancing theory and application in business school research

  Experts ask whether the academic role is really serving the best interests of business and society

  
• Bridging the gap between business school research and policymaking

  A database of millions of policy documents offers an insight into how academic work is influencing government action

  
• Why business school sustainability research needs a reality check

  An FT report highlights outstanding work — and how academia falls short on ESG issues

  
• The (carbon) price of progress on climate change

  Carbon pricing need not be as detrimental as markets fear, three researchers argue

  
• Academics and executives join forces on sustainability research

  A novel approach breaks down barriers between business schools and commerce

  
• Can big fish lead the way on ocean sustainability?

  A professor on how academics are working with ‘keystone actors’ to change fishing

  
• ESG investment returns face a slowdown

  The factors driving the outperformance of green stocks are changing, prize-winning professors argue

  
• Rating the ESG rating agencies

  The raters are growing in influence — but research by three academics questions the way they work

  
• How to make business school sustainability research matter

  A ‘unicorn’ sustainability executive and author calls for a rethink to make studies relevant

  
• Why management research needs a radical rethink

  Business school teaching and academic studies do not reflect new climate change realities

  
• How distorted insurance pricing obscures customers’ climate risks

  US state rules on premiums deprive households of vital local information, academics argue

  
• The hunt for technologies to disrupt carbon

  With some progress on electric vehicles and energy, two academics consider what could drive change elsewhere

  
• How business doctorates can deliver real-world change

  A watch executive’s sustainability research highlights how DBAs have practical impact

  
• Business school sustainability research: What is read most?

  Research papers on ESG themes — positive and sceptical — dominate recent downloads from the Social Science Research Network website

  
• Why it’s time to prepare for the worst on climate change

  Business and society must invest in adaptation now despite uncertainty about the impact

  
• Should investors stay and fight for green change — or divest?

  Remaining engaged can often have a greater impact, this academic study argues

  
• Growing green awareness gives eco-innovation a competitive edge

  Shifting attitudes make investment in cleaner technologies more viable, academics argue

  
• Researchers’ recipe for cutting restaurant food waste

  Business school academics studied how to tackle lost nutrition and climate impact

  
• Business school research round-up: sustainability

  Summaries and edited extracts from recent studies on ESG themes