Management consultancies like McKinsey and BCG are nearly always at the top of the first job wish list of young US and European MBA gradua-tes. Over a third become management consultants (Cox, 1997).In the course of the last thirty years, the relationship between manage-ment consulting and management education1 has become more complex, and the dividing line between the two has become less stabl…
A recent report by the World Meteorological Organization updated to January 2022 showed that around 11% of the world’s population has no access to sufficiently safe sources of water. In addition, drought in some regions of Africa, Central Asia and the American continent is hastening the expansion of the desert belts and is causing serious difficulties in a growing…
It is becoming increasingly important to find solutions for more resilient food production methods closer to urban environments with less vulnerability to supply-chain shocks (Benke and Tomkins, 2017; O’Sullivan et al., 2020; Pulighe and Lupia, 2020). Indoor vertical farming (IVF1) systems have emerged worldwide as a result of the need for more resilient food provisioning.…