SBS/CEGBI Summer Conference 2024 Tackling Grand Challenges: Informing progress and shaping change in business and society

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‘Tackling Grand Challenges: Informing progress and shaping change in business and society’

The Centre for Evolution of Global Business and Institutions (CEGBI) as part of the School for Business and Society (SBS), University of York, invites you to participate in the 2024 Summer Conference.

The conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for research and teaching across the school and beyond, to promote dialogue, discuss work in progress with an interdisciplinary audience, and to support research and teaching collaboration on topics associated with tackling ‘Grand Challenges’ in business and society. Panels, papers and discussion cover ‘grand challenges’ in business: strategies for innovation and resilience; societal impacts of 'grand challenges’: from local to global perspectives; policy and technology solutions for ‘grand challenges’; information and knowledge management in addressing ‘grand challenges’; corporate social responsibility and ethical leadership; sustainable social and business models and practices; collaborative initiatives for societal change; interdisciplinary approaches to tackling ‘grand challenges’.

Programme available here

Keynote Speaker: Anna Coote, Principal Fellow, New Economics Foundation

All members of staff in the School for Business and Society (SBS) are invited to participate, as well as all PhD students, and associate members, both internal and external to the university. Contributions are also welcome from researchers and teaching staff from other departments at the University of York with broad interests related to the interdisciplinary theme of the conference.

The conference will take place in the Church Lane Building and is free to attend. Refreshments and lunch will be provided.