Video recording of the joint Academy of International Business Sustainability Shared Interest Group and WAIB – Women in the Academy of International Business Webinar: Intersections of Sustainability and Diversity Webinar, which was held on 16 February 2022, is now available at the Academy of International Business (AIB) website. To view it follow this link, you will need to log in as it is in the membership area.
The webinar was jointly organized and moderated by the AIB Sustainability SIG Officer Sarah Ku (Georgia State University) and the WAIB Board Member Ha-Nguyen T,T. (University of Vaasa).
We would like to express our gratitude to the presenters: Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D. (Brown University), Jennifer Oetzel (American University), and Maryam Anike Yusuf (The Busara Centre) who provided their insights from academic and practitioners’ perspective.
They discussed the most promising overlap between sustainability and diversity, provided examples of projects about this intersection, in-house and cross-border diversity, developing sustainable strategy, overcoming behavioral barriers, contextualizing the approaches of implementing sustainability and diversity, MNE responsibility towards employees and customers, sustainability values which attract top talent among Millennials and Gen Z.