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Dr Matt Burke receives Financial Times award for the impact of his academic research

Dr Matt Burke, alongside colleagues, is working to integrate climate science into real world financial indicators. This is essential for communicating the risk that climate change poses to the economy.
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Strengthening worker voice in Bangladesh's garment industry

A new book chapter, written by Dr Sharmin Shabnam Rahman, alongside Jette Steen Knudsen and Jeremy Moon, shares insights from their latest research on Bangladesh's Ready-Made Garment sector.
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New report critiques supply-side urban development

The new report, written by Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver and Jonathan Silver, critically examines the supply-side, property-led urban development model, using Manchester as a case study.
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Dr Mirna Jabbour publishes new book about implementing Enterprise Risk Management

Dr Mirna Jabbour’s first book, Enterprise Risk Management: Technical, Cognitive, and Social Perspectives, has been published by Routledge.
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It’s high time for business to meet higher ethical standards

Professor Jill Atkins talks to Fortune about ethical standards in business and how a corporation’s social responsibility is critical to its success.

| Fortune
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Corporation tax: why Janet Yellen’s call for a global minimum rate is a bad move

Dr Sharif Khalid discusses Janet Yellen’s call for a global minimum rate.

| The Conversation
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Audit reforms must tackle threat of ‘hollow’ companies

Professor Adam Leaver's work on 'hollow firms' is featured in the Financial Times.

| The Financial Times
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GameStop: I’m one of the WallStreetBets ‘degenerates’ – here’s why retail trading craze is just getting started

Mohammad Rajjaque discusses WallStreetBets and how it has recently inspired a new generation of young investors.

| The Conversation
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Putting the green in greenback

Professor Jill Atkinson talks to Reuters about her extinction accounting work.

| Reuters