CREATING VALUE FROM DISRUPTION
Author: Isabel Salazar, ISA fellow 2019/20. What is disruption? I was trying to define my article’s title when this word came to my mind. Nowadays it is a word that you hear often in the business world: business disruption, disruptive innovation or creative disruption just to name a few, but what disruption really means?
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20. April 2020
HOW TO AVOID BOREDOM WHILE SOCIAL DISTANCING?
In a time of self-isolation, one can easily fall into a boring repetitive routine. The chance of becoming anxious may be high giving the alarming news, the numbers that keep increasing every single day and the scary hashtags on social media. For someone who’s used to being active in online campaigns to raise awareness, it
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15. April 2020
Meet the Team
Who are the people behind the scenes at the ISA? In answer to this question we would like to briefly introduce ourselves here: Hartmut Eckert (Director) For me, sustainability is a passion. I am a qualified wholesale and export trader with a degree in Communication Science who has worked for many years in the vocational
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28. May 2019
These are our scholarship holders 2019/20
The ISA is intercultural and interdisciplinary – this claim is totally justified through our first cohorts. The 12 scholarship holders come from 10 different countries in 3 continents. These countries are categorized on the DAC list (Development Assistance Committee of the OECD) as developing countries, for example Ghana, Nigeria, India, South Korea and Mexico. The
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28. May 2019
The first cooperation partners are confirmed
Right from the beginning we already have two strong cooperation partners at our side: the University of Applied Sciences (HAW) Hamburg and the Leuphana University Lüneburg. Here an introduction to the planned projects: Headed by Prof. Dr. (mult) Dr. h.c. (mult.) Walter Leal, the international team of the Research and Transfer Center “Sustainability and Climate
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28. May 2019