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What Legacy do We Want to Leave for the Next Generations?

Nova SBE Economics for Policy Knowledge Center's project aims to spark a debate on the impact of today’s decisions on future generations’ well-being.‍ It is part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Sustainability Programme, which promotes research on economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Digital & Technology

The Impact of the Regulatory Environment on Digital Automation in Professional Services

Nova SBE Economics for Policy Knowledge Center's project explores the current state of play in digital automation and the potential for further automation in engineering, architectural, legal, and accounting services across the EU.

Environment

Buying and selling carbon credits from nature, a good deal to support biodiversity conservation and restoration efforts?

The use of carbon credits from nature to finance conservation and restoration efforts are growing. This approach holds incredible potential, on paper, but has major challenges to overcome — our MSc. Student Pierre-Guillaume Amiel explores this further in this article. Maze-Impact is a venture by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Nova SBE's corporate partner.

impACT stories #1: The Other Side of Impact with Meg Pagani

ImpACT Stories is Nova Social Consulting's new initiative to spark our ecosystem and our community's impact journeys, finding our #roletoplay at Nova School of Business and Economics and beyond.

NOVAFRICA evaluates PROFUTURO in Angola

Pedro Vicente spoke to Geração Digital (RTP Africa) about the impact study of ProFuturo, a program for introducing technology in a school environment, carried out by Nova SBE NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center in about 40 Catholic schools in the city of Luanda, Angola. The work showed that where ProFuturo introduced technology, there were improvements in children's performance, teachers were more motivated, and there was more interaction in the classroom.

Digital & Technology

From health aid to stock management, which makes artificial intelligence

Health and retail are two of the sectors that stand out for applying the so-called artificial intelligence in Portugal, in contrast to banking, which is more "afraid" because it is a more regulated sector. It can help more accurate diagnoses, and, in the future, it will change the way we move.‍

Take advantage of all the talent

Carla Sequeira, CIP Secretary General, wrote about the ‘Promote’ project in Jornal Económico. This project is developed by CIP with a training partnership from Nova SBE, aiming at conscious companies that want to have greater diversity in their leadership positions and female leaders with this ambition.

Does leadership learn? Study shows that 52% of managers consider “being born with a leader profile”

The Leadership Observatory Report 2020, developed by Nova SBE and in partnership with Haddad Foundation, has been referred to in a recent Executive Digest article.

Impact on sustainability: a shared mission

With the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which address social and environmental challenges, but also economic dimensions that ensure income, the United Nations paved the way for a new metric for the progress of humanity. Our Dean explores the role of universities in creating a more sustainable future.

Fleeing migrants. "These people are desperate"

Cátia Batista, scientific director of the Nova SBE NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center, calls for policies to welcome and integrate migrants.

Economics

Does more confinement mean more or less savings?

More radical containment strategies may harm the economy in the short term but have more desirable economic and social consequences in the medium and long term. The exposed article results from the partnership between Jornal Económico and Nova Economics Club, the group of students of Economics of the Nova School of Business and Economics.

More redistribution? Yes, please.

OECD data show that in Portugal, it can take up to five generations for descendants of a low-income family to reach the national average income. Mariana Esteves, Researcher at Nova SBE, explores the topic of redistribution in Portugal.

Finance

The impact of the European funds on impact

Portugal 2020 was (and still is) the Partnership Agreement between Portugal and the European Commission regarding the amount of European Structural and Investment Funds for 2014-2020. Portugal has received around 25 billion euros in total, of which were invested 150 million euros in social innovation through the Estrutura de Missão Portugal Inovação Social (Portugal Social Innovation Mission Structure).

Portugal, Social Balance 2020 Report

This year’s edition of the Portugal, Balanço Social [Portugal, Social Balance] includes a special chapter dedicated to the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on those with the greatest economic fragility and poverty situations. It also brings together several datasets to assess the pandemic crisis on health, education, the labor market, savings, consumption, and indebtedness.

Health

Medical Worker Migration and Origin-Country Human Capital: Evidence from U.S. Visa Policy

RESEARCH SEMINAR | Under the the theme Economic Development in Africa, the NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center welcomes Caroline Theoharides, from Amherst College to present her work on medical worker migration and brain drain.

Entrepreneurship

Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?

RESEARCH SEMINAR | Under the the theme Economic Development in Africa, the NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center welcomes Cynthia Kinnan, from Tufts University to present her work on microfinance and entrepreneurship to unlock poverty.

A Firm of One’s Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice

RESEARCH SEMINAR | Under the the theme Economic Development in Africa, the NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center welcomes Pamela Jakiela from Williams College to present her work on credit constraints, targeting young women in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods.

Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone

RESEARCH SEMINAR | Under the the theme Economic Development in Africa, the NOVAFRICA Knowledge Center welcomes Anne Karing from Princeton University to present her work on Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization in Sierra Leone.

Digital & Technology

Data Science vs. Humans: who do we trust in the decision-making process?

There is no doubt that data science applications are becoming a part of organizations’ lives and, consequently, the lives of us all. As technology itself evolves and becomes more effective in detecting patterns and preferences, should we let it tell us which direction to follow? Will data science algorithms make human intuition obsolete?

Nova SBE Research Report 2020

Nova SBE published its 2020 Research Report, which showcases a selection of the projects and accomplishments of our research community. For the first time, it demonstrates how each research activity contributes to the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Gold mining in Burkina Faso: Who wins?

While the state benefits more from industrial than artisanal mining, only artisanal mines increase the consumption of local populations. Read through this research insight, co-authored by Victoire Girard, FCT Researcher at Nova SBE, and Rémi Bazilier, Professor of Economics, Patheon-Sorbonne University.

Conversas com Impacto Podcast - with Luís Veiga Martins

Luís Veiga Martins participated in a recently launched Podcast - Conversas com Impacto [Conversations with Impact] to talk about Nova SBE's comprehensive and sustainable vision of business and economics, with a strong commitment to walk the talk, through the implementation of impact projects at various levels.