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Sustainability challenges are urgent. Can solutions come quickly? The answer depends on the reach and radicalness of the innovation.
Tima Bansal
Professor of Sustainability and Strategy
Ivey Business School
DPhil in Management Studies, University of Oxford
Tima leads Innovation North, which is reimagining business innovation to create better businesses and a more resilient, prosperous and sustainable society. Tima also founded the Network for Business Sustainability and Ivey’s Centre for Building Sustainable Value. Tima is currently the Chair of the Board of the United Nation’s Principles for Responsible Education and is the Chair of the Impact Committee for venture capitalist, Shift4Good.
Tima holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Academy of Management.
Articles by Tima Bansal
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Sustainability challenges are urgent. Can solutions come quickly? The answer depends on the reach and radicalness of the innovation.
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Business sustainability is not CSR, the triple bottom line, or shared value. It’s bigger, more systemic, and more long term.
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Writing an online column lets me impact management practice, develop new research ideas, and sharpen my writing for academic publications. I’m not “selling out.”
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For social justice and for human survival, the Indigenous worldview needs to become our guide for decisions. Businesses can play a role in this transition.
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Business school students want to change their curriculum and the broader world. Let’s talk about how they can do it.
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For researchers to offer practical advice for managers, we need to change the way we research. We suggest a new approach.
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Current approaches to business — and business sustainability — are not working. Companies need a business model focused not only on profits, but also on waste.
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Businesses often seek to scale up, but COVID-19 has given us the opportunity to think about scaling down and deep.
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Some debate whether “stakeholder capitalism” is really growing. But data show corporate boards increasingly reward executives for CSR.
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The ‘new normal’ will make business more productive, but society more unequal. It’s time for a social reset.