The research project “SustainableCommodities” studies the European Deforestation-free law (EUDR) intended and unintended effect on Agricultural Commodities (AC) Supply Chains (SC) social, economic and environmental sustainability, providing insight into related business opportunities and risks, and ultimately suggesting improvements and reinterpretations to the existing regulatory framework. To meet the growing AC demand more resources are required to increase production, such as land, labor force, technologies, logistics, transportation, storage, and production infrastructure. However, the AC production is also responsible for significant negative impacts on the environment and on the people and communities involved especially in developing countries,. In governing AC SC dynamics, the EU has taken a decisive step with the EUDR establishing that "any operator or trader who places these commodities on the EU market, or exports from it, must be able to prove that the products do not originate from recently deforested land." The aim of the project is to: i) Understand if the EUDR, is setting the stage for the de-commoditization of AC, its effect on social, economic, and environmental sustainability of SC’s. ii) Establish what characteristics should a certification have to ensure environmental, economic, and social sustainability of the SCs and identify what technologies are functional for this purpose. iii) Clarify the EUDR effect on global AC flows and predict any possible availability risk and product demand risk. Understand the effect of the global flow change on sustainability in the SC. iv) Evaluate whether and how a substantial rethinking of the AC SC in terms of production, transportation, and transformation strategies is required and if the interplay between regulators, multinational firms, and farmers needs to be redefined by different, regulatory strategies and rewarding mechanisms.

"The principal aim of this project has been to develop a broad, cross-institutional and interdisciplinary teaching program on “Sustainable Business Models”. The contents and materials developed through the project are primarily intended to be used as a basis for online courses in Sustainable Business at the partner institutions and in the CEMS network. They can also be used as building blocks for regular courses that may allow for a “flipped classroom” approach that frees up time for more interactive forms of learning in the classroom.Sustainability is one of the major challenges facing contemporary societies and it has very significant implications for business. Global surveys of CEOs show that sustainability is being placed on the top of the agenda of companies across all industries. In part, this is due to the challenges faced by stronger expectations by customers and other stakeholders, as well as the threat of regulation of social and environmental performance. Increasingly, however, there is an awareness that there are profitable opportunities associated with being more sustainable or by offering products and services that enable others to lead more sustainable lives. In this sense, there is a growing understanding of the possibility that firms can become sustainable while at the same time being responsible. The knowledge of business models that allow for such sustainable functioning are however still scarce in contemporary business education. This project has addressed this shortcoming by developing a comprehensive educational program consisting of video lectures and other teaching material from the frontiers of research on sustainable business.The project had the following objectives:1. To develop a course program consisting of six modules on topics related to the design, innovation and implementation of sustainable business models. 2. As a main outcome, the project will deliver 30 teaching videos and additional materials freely accessible online.Initially, four business schools took part in the consortium. The lead organization was NHH Norwegian School of Economics and the three other participating organizations were ESADE Business School, Copenhagen Business School and Corvinus University Budapest. After an initial round of contract negotiations, however, Corvinus University Budapest chose to withdraw from the project (cf. Amendment to Grant Agreement, Nov. 6th 2017). The remaining organizations agreed that NHH Norwegian School of Economics would take on the workload intended to be conducted by Corvinus University Budapest. As a consequence, researchers from NHH Norwegian School of Economics developed and produced four of the six modules in the program (modules 1-3 and 6), while ESADE Business School (module 4) and Copenhagen Business School (module 5) developed and produced one module each.The main outcomes of the project, as planned, are the seven intellectual outputs (IO). IO1-6 are the six video modules comprising a total of 32 videos, while IO7 is the online, open access platform at www.SUSTBUS.com, through which all videos can be accessed. The modules are as follows:- IO1: The problem of sustainability- IO2: Business Models for Sustainability- IO3: Circular and Collaborative Business Models- IO4: Social Innovation- IO5: Strategizing and Organizing for Sustainability- IO6: Business in a Sustainable Future- IO7: Online portal at www.SUSTBUS.comIn addition, there have been several learning and teaching activities, as well as multiplier events, carried out as part of the project. The following learning and teaching activities were carried out in order to test the material throughout the development and production phases:- ""Sustainable Business Models"" - Responsible Global Leadership Seminar at NHH, Jan/Feb 2018- ""Sustainable Business Models"" - bachelor program seminar at ESADE, Jan 2019- ""Sustainable Business Models"" - Responsible Global Leadership Seminar at NHH, Jan/Feb 2019 The following multiplier events have been carried out to disseminate results from the project:- ""Sustainable Business Models"" - seminar for NHH Alumni, Oslo, April 2019- ""Sustainable Business Models"" - closing seminar at CBS, April 2019- Sharing of Practices, Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships, NHH, 2019In addition, a ""Sustainable Business Models"" seminar was held at Global Responsibility Week 2018 at CBS. Also, a panel debate was hosted during the Global Responsibility Week at NHH in 2018, involving local entrepreneurs heading sustainability iniatives. In terms of impact, the material has already been used widely in teaching at the three partners schools, both at bachelor and master level. In addition, as shown above, it has been used in the CEMS programs, in which there are students from all partner schools in the CEMS network. This application of the program will continue, thus ensuring long-term impact on the teaching of sustainability in and beyond these curricula."

Contemporary organizations face three interrelated, but analytically distinguishable, challenges. First, they should be alert to mistakes that could be catastrophic. Second, they need to allocate attention, especially to correct past mistakes and to make accurate predictions about future developments. Third, they should be innovative, able to stand out from existing categories while being recognized as outstanding. This project investigates these cognitive challenges with the aim of developing a comprehensive sociological approach to study the social properties of cognition. Research on error detection, attention allocation, and recognizant innovation will be conducted in three distinct settings strategically chosen so the scale and complexity of the performance challenges increases across the cases. The research question that cuts across the socio-cognitive challenges asks whether and how diversity contributes to performance. 1) We first test whether social context, understood at the most basic level as the composition of a small collectivity, affects the cognitive activity of pricing. To do so, I use experimental market methods to test whether ethnic and gender diversity deflate price bubbles by disrupting herding behaviour. 2) The second study tests how the social structure of attention affects valuation. The activities involve error correction and accuracy of prediction in estimates by securities analysts; the method is two-mode network analysis; and the timing, intensity, and diversity of attention networks are the effects to be tested. 3) Whereas my first two tests examine relations among competitors, my third examines relations within and across collaborative teams. In studying the network properties of creativity, the challenge is recognizant innovation, the activity involves recording sessions in the field of music, the method is cultural network analysis, and the effects to be tested are the combined effects of stylistic diversity and social structure.