Projects
Selected Reference Projects
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Corporate responsibility and sustainability management
The Center for Corporate Responsibility (CCR) deals with issues relating to corporate responsibility and sustainability management. To this end, we develop practice-relevant approaches and tools, support companies in the conception and implementation process, and train specialists. The objective is to create an ...
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Green Transformative Leadership
Addressing environmental grand challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss requires businesses to take transformative action that goes beyond business-as-usual and have the requisite organizational leaders who can spearhead the transition towards a more environmentally sustainable world. However, ...
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Investor Impact
Recent advancements in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations have increasingly influenced company shareholder meetings, where votes on these issues have become a critical mechanism for impact-oriented investors to exert positive influence through their voting choices. Consequently, a systematic ...
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Pelt8 Scale Up
Pelt8 offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for firms to automatically create sustainability reports. The platform enables firms to collect and manage all their sustainability-related data in one place accessible to suppliers, customers, and affiliated firms. In this study, Pelt8 and the ZHAW School of ...
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Revolutionizing Education60+: Digital Lifelong Learning
The global phenomenon of population aging and the rapid pace of digital transformation are defining our era. In 2020, 25% of Swiss citizens were aged 60 or older, reflecting a trend observed worldwide as the population over 65 continues to grow. However, amidst this digital revolution, older adults often encounter a ...
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Green!Tea: Renewable Energy for the Vietnamese tea sector
Vietnam is one of Southeast Asia’s economic powerhouses. It aspires to high-quality agricultural production with a view to lucrative export markets, while transitioning towards more renewable forms of energy production to meet COP26 commitments. Solar power and biomass from productive forests are meant to support ...
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International Business Innovation
Joint student teams from MSc International Business at ZHAW School of Management and Law and the legendary ME-310 course at Stanford University collaborate in an unique format to develop extensive new domain knowledge and numerous functional and business model prototypes. They engineer and strategize solutions that ...