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"Have a Great and Impactful Week!" is the weekly newsletter from CATÓLICA-LISBON's Center for Responsible Business & Leadership

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"Have a Great and Impactful Week!" is sent out every Sunday at 5PM, bringing new insights on the world of corporate responsibility, sustainability and responsible leadership. It is often signed by the Center's Executive Director, Nuno Moreira da Cruz

Please find all the previous issues of "Have a Great and Impactful Week!" below. 

Former issues of
"Have a Great and Impactful Week!"

07/11/2021 - Mental Health as a Priority for Younger Generations: Evidence from a Deloitte study

31/10/2021 - The Gender Equity Challenge: Dealing with it at Microsoft

24/10/2021 - Energy With Purpose: How bp is diversifying and decarbonizing as the world transitions to a lower carbon future

17/10/2021 - Mental Health: Why Should it be a Topic in my Company Agenda?

10/10/2021 - Electric Vehicles: 100 horses and only 3 cars…

03/10/2021 - We have one (physical and digital) planet

26/09/2021 - SDG Week at CATÓLICA-LISBON: An amazing journey!

19/09/2021 - SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Week at Católica - Our Students Rising Up to the Challenges

12/09/2021 - Jeff Bezos could save everyone on the planet!

05/09/2021 - The (in) ability to listen as a source of inefficiency in companies …made worst in the context of operating as a Responsible Business

29/08/2021 - Center for Consumer Well-being and Retail Innovation and the relevance of Sustainable Consumption

22/08/2021 - Portuguese Water Management Pact

15/08/2021 - This is our Edition #100. What a Journey!

08/08/2021 - Cigarettes: Once Upon a Time… They were part of Human Life

01/08/2021 - Our Center: What a second year! 

25/07/2021 - COP26: Last chance?

18/07/2021 - Pestana Group: We are only guests of this Planet

11/07/2021 - The New Working Standards: Insights from a Recently Graduated Student

04/07/2021 - Purpose: the Implementation Process, Or… the difference between a PowerPoint exercise and the creation of a Competitive Advantage

27/06/2021 - Water Consumption as a Challenge: A view from the corporate world

20/06/2021 - What to expect from Millennials and Gen Z - Deloitte Report: “A call for Accountability and Action”

13/06/2021 - Leadership skills: Soft is the new hard

06/06/2021 - Oil Industry under unprecedented pressure!

30/05/2021 - Leadership with Purpose? Certainly much more than just being a “nice guy”…

23/05/2021 - The distinction between financial and non-financial (ESG) metrics will be over soon - for the benefit of the People and the Planet

16/05/2021 - An Open Letter to CEOs: What Can you Expect from Us?

09/05/2021 - Esporão: Living the Purpose

02/05/2021 - Taking water for granted? Better not!

25/04/2021 - The day I discovered that companies can help combat Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking and why it is in their self-interest to do so!

18/04/2021 - To Be a Responsible Leader think “and”, not “or”

11/04/2021 - The Challenge of Putting the Customer at the Centre of Purpose: is Digital a new Opportunity?

04/04/2021 - The Magic of Business and Easter 

28/03/2021 - Are Companies and CEOs able NOT to speak out? It doesn't seem so…

21/03/2021 - The replacement of Danone’s Group CEO: Is it about Purpose vs Profit? Or Purpose AND Profit?

14/03/2021 - On the Science of Profit and Social Responsibility

07/03/2021 - Fashion and sustainability? It’s possible with innovative business and consumption models!

28/02/2021 - Keep one step ahead! Upcoming business and human rights laws

21/02/2021 - Linking C-Suite pay to Sustainability Performance: Which ESGs metrics to set?

14/02/2021 - Digital Business Transformation?: Yet again, all about purposeful leadership!

07/02/2021 - A Pandemic of… Social Entrepreneurship

31/01/2021 - World Economic Forum – Davos 2021

25/01/2021 - The Ethical Pandemics, Or… How mercy meets business

17/01/2021 - “Working from office every day? Nope!”

10/01/2021 - 2021: Year of Dangers, Year of Hope

03/01/2021 - “In the long run we are all dead” - Well, some Companies will…

27/12/2020 - Santa’s Go Green: A Christmas’ Tale

20/12/2020 - Philip Morris and the Tobacco Industry - Kill your business, before you die with it

13/12/2020 - Research Note: Purpose-Driven Consumption Building - The Dialogue Between Companies And Consumers

06/12/2020 - The Fashion Industry path towards Sustainability: We are Watching You!

29/11/2020 - DANONE - Stakeholder vs shareholder primacy: a concrete example

22/11/2020 - We are now a member of the UN Global Compact!

15/11/2020 - Leadership with Purpose: What does it take

08/11/2020 - Sustainable Development Goals event in Lisbon Partnership with House of Beautiful Business and Lisboa Green Capital

01/11/2020 - Shifting the capital towards… ESG

25/10/2020 - Impact Accounting: How come a “bad” $1m result equals a “good” $1m result? 

18/10/2020 - Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism

01/10/2020 - Sustainable Development agenda: the path to succeed

27/09/2020 - Manage with Purpose for Impact - B tools are here to help

13/09/2020 - Rio Tinto: An Unusual Decision

06/09/2020 - Purpose-driven Business An innovative and inspiring Online Executive Program to start in October

30/08/2020 - In These Turbulent, Divided Times, Lead With Beauty ...but not in a superficial, "beautifying" way

23/08/2020 - Is António Costa Silva's Strategic Vision for 2020-2030 Aligned with the SDGs?

16/18/2020 - How to Navigate the Pandemic: A Social Psychological Toolkit

09/08/2020 - It's our world as well! Oil & Gas reimagining sustainable energy…

02/08/2020 - Infectious Diseases as an Economic & Global Health Threat: The importance of Responsible Leadership to bring it to an end

26/07/2020 - 1-year Anniversary of CRB: An Overview of Our Activities

19/07/2020 - “Entreprise à Mission” – the case of Danone “A mission that is part of our DNA”

12/07/2020 - Greed is not good: The case of Wirecard

05/07/2020 - Key learnings from our Online Water Summit:
Water scarcity is undeniable, businesses have a clear role to play, partnerships are crucial and the time for action is now

28/06/2020 - How to Navigate the Pandemic: The Human Cognition Toolkit

21/06/2020 - True leadership and adaptive change: Organizational responses to "Black Lives Matter" crisis

14/06/2020 - “Next Generation EU”: A Unique Opportunity to create a Stronger Europe and a more Sustainable World

07/06/2020 - Is COVID-19 an opportunity to rethink our business ethics?

31/05/2020 - How to Grow without destroying the Planet and not leaving anybody behind: The Doughnuts Economics

24/05/2020 - Tap Into The Power Of Autonomy To Engage Your Employees: An opportunity even during a crisis

17/05/2020 - Leadership in times of Crisis: The best and the worst in the same week

10/05/2020 - Will the COVID-19 crisis prevent corporate engagement with a more sustainable future?

03/05/2020 Water as a Value Driver for Sustainable Growth: Water Summit on 25 and 26 June 2020

26/04/2020 Research Note and Crisis

19/04/2020 The five trade-offs of the crisis

12/04/2020CSR – Much Ado about Nothing? - Part II: Let's talk about "Responsibility" 

05/04/2020CSR – Much Ado about Nothing? - Part I: Shareholders First

29/03/2020 Virtual Conferencing in times of crisis

22/03/2020 Pandemic and Sustainability - Challenge and Hope

15/03/2020Impact Investment: A New Wave Approaching

08/03/2020 - Gender Equality: Why is this happening?

01/03/2020 - CATÓLICA-LISBON has signed a partnership with Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus for the establishment of the first Yunus Social Business Center (YSBC) in Portugal

23/02/2020 - Water as a value driver for sustainable growth: Water Summit on April 3rd at CATÓLICA-LISBON

16/02/2020 - BP announced new Purpose and Ambitions: "We want to be wanted, not just needed"

09/02/2020 - Walmart: "Investing" in salaries

02/02/2020 - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A new decade to transform threats into opportunities

26/01/2020 - Key messages from Davos 2020 - World Economic Forum

19/01/2020 2019 Larry Fink Letter: "We are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance"

12/01/2020 - The role of Business Schools in the Age of Purpose

05/01/2020 - Green Finance – Wind blowing in the right direction

29/12/2019 - Sustainable Leadership: what does it take? 

22/12/2019 - How much value does corporate volunteering generate? 

15/12/2019 - Patagonia - a leading sustainable company

08/12/2019 - Climate Change Conference: Path of Hope or Path of Surrender?

01/12/2019 - Philanthropy and Responsible Business

25/11/2019 - Which measures to trust?

17/11/2019 - Greenwashing

10/11/2019 - GDP: Measure of last century?

03/11/2019 - The link Sustainability strategy to bottom line

27/10/2019 - B-Corporations: a step ahead

20/10/2019 - Purpose and Authenticity – two sides of the same coin

13/10/2019 - Purpose – Why?

06/10/2019 - Social Responsibility, Companies and Saramago

29/09/2019 - Responsible Business: five social trends

22/09/2019 - Invitation to Reflection for Executives

15/09/2019 - The Center for Responsible Business & Leadership


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The Center for Responsible Business & Leadership has the main purpose of contributing for Sustainability and Responsible Leadership to become part of the “way we do things in our planet”.

Responsible Business (in its holistic approach that includes not only Environment but Social and Governance key issues) is becoming an essential part of corporate strategies and the Center aspires to develop knowledge amongst students and executives to face these new challenges. 

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