Perspectives by E4S

Garen Markarian is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Lausanne. While he believes in the importance of sustainability, Professor Markarian is much more critical of the ESG framework. He argues for a bold stance: the end of ESG, as he sees it causing more harm than good. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterpriseforsociety/message

Gaia Melloni is an Assistant Professor of Sustainability Accounting at the University of Lausanne. In this episode, we'll discuss greenwashing within ESG reports, and common techniques companies use to influence our perceptions. Professor Melloni will then break down what needs to be done to make ESG more than just a communication tool, and what the future holds for sustainability accounting. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterpriseforsociety/message

Glòria Serra-Coch is an Architect and PhD Candidate at EPFL. In this episode, she will explain the key factors in getting people to buy solar panels and other key technologies. Because developing renewable technologies is great. Deploying them at scale is even better. But getting people to embrace them is vital. Most importantly: we'll discuss what needs to be done to drive mass adoption of these great innovations. In the middle of the episode, we'll be joined by Julia Bory, Co-Lead of Innovation at E4S. Julia is presently engaged in Servetia, a project that plays a role in driving mass adoption of renewable technologies in Switzerland (https://servetia-initiative.ch/). She will promptly provide us with an introduction to how it works in practice. To suggest topics and guests for future episode, to support the podcast or to share your feedback, ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterpriseforsociety/message

Sébastien Houde is an Associate Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Lausanne. In this episode, we’ll address solutions to 3 main bottlenecks to the energy transition. First, we struggle to attract the amount of capital required for long-term investments in infrastructure. Second, the availability of some crucial materials to build this infrastructure is already under serious threat. And third, companies have trouble recruiting the huge workforce needed to install solar panels and other technologies. Professor Houde will walk us through the concept of carbon pricing, how it could be implemented, and we'll discuss the social aspect of the energy transition in a context of inflation. At the end of the episode, we'll look at the future of the energy sector, which could well go in completely unexpected directions. To suggest topics and guests for future episode, to support the podcast or to share your feedback, ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterpriseforsociety/message

Mario Paolone is a Professor and Director of the Energy Center at EPFL. In today’s episode, we’ll ask him what's standing on the way to decarbonized energy systems, and what solutions should we prioritize. If we're serious about decoupling economic activity from carbon emissions, then energy conversion, as the main source of CO2 emissions globally, is the most important sector to look into. To suggest topics and guests for future episode, to support the podcast or to share your feedback, ⁠⁠click here⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterpriseforsociety/message

Julia Binder is a Professor of Sustainable Innovation & Business Transformation at IMD. She specializes in the intersection between sustainability and innovation, and was featured on the 2022 Thinkers50 Radar list of management thinkers to keep an eye on. In this episode, we ask her about the current backlash in the US against ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) scores. Professor Binder points out that this political debate is mainly due to a widespread misconception of what ESG really is. She explains what ESG is in practice, the crucial difference between single and double materiality, and discusses future prospects in the world of corporate sustainability. To suggest topics and guests for future episode, to support the podcast or to share your feedback, ⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterpriseforsociety/message

Sarah Koller is a Researcher and Project Coordinator at the Competence Centre in Sustainability at the University of Lausanne. She studies the psychological aspects of our dependence on the current economic growth paradigm, and explores alternative paradigms. In this episode, she explains why, before we look at economic policy, we must first address people's relationship to the most fundamental existential questions, like the fear of death, and provides a new paradigm to deal with them. To suggest topics and guests for future episode, to support the podcast or to share your feedback, ⁠click here⁠. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterpriseforsociety/message

Frédéric Dalsace is a Professor of Marketing & Strategy at IMD. In this episode, Prof. Dalsace details 5 ways in which firms should transform to prepare for a post-growth economy in developed economies. He explains how marketing, although it has largely contributed to the acceleration of the climate crisis, can be the key to a sustainable economy, provided companies use it wisely. To suggest topics and guests for future episode, to support the podcast or to share your feedback, click here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterpriseforsociety/message

Jean-Pierre Danthine is a former Vice-President of the Swiss National Bank and Honorary Professor at EPFL. In our inaugural episode, Prof. Danthine explains the concept of economic growth, why it is so embedded to our economy, and presents his macroeconomic vision for a thriving economy within planetary boundaries. To suggest topics and guests for future episode, to support the podcast or to share your feedback, click here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/enterpriseforsociety/message