Research trio received Research Dissemination Award 2023
This 2023 Award for Excellent Knowledge Dissemination goes to the core team at the Centre for Sustainable Business: Sveinung Jørgensen, Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen and Siv R. Skard.
Professor Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen
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BIOGRAPHY
Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen is Professor and Co-Head of the Centre for Sustainable Business. He holds a PhD degree from NHH Norwegian School of Economics. He does research in two main areas: (1) The design and innovation of sustainable business models, and (2) natural field experiments on economic decision making, with a particular emphasis on pro-social and pro-environmental behaviors. His research has been published in journals such as Management Science and Journal of Business Ethics and by publishers such as Palgrave, Edward Elgar and Wiley.
Pedersen is an active public speaker and strategic advisor for business organizations and other institutions. He sits on several boards, including the board of the Norwegian Wine Monopoly, and is co-founder of a circular-economic start-up. He was a member of the committee that developed the Norwegian Transparency Act and has been project leader for several externally funded research projects in close collaboration with Norwegian business organizations.
Selected publications
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DOES SUSTAINABILITY NEED A LITTLE MORE POPULISM?
Those promoting sustainability need to create better narratives to generate support.
‘Enormous potential for free NHH courses’
NHH recently released the online course ‘Business Models for Sustainability’ in what is known as a MOOC. It is free and available to anyone who is interested. ‘The potential is enormous,’ Sveinung Jørgensen says.
Pedersen promoted full professor
`It is a reminder of how lucky I am to be allowed to dedicate my days to working on important and exciting issues´, Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen says.
Together for sustainable value creation
For the first time in its history, NHH Executive is awarding a scholarship to a candidate wishing to enrol in its new master's programme in sustainability. The scholarship covers the full tuition fee for one module.
How consumers perceive sustainable products
They tend to see green heavy-duty cleaners as ineffective, but love green gentle products such as body lotions, write Sveinung Jørgensen, Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen and Siv Skard in LSE Business Review.
New research project on experimentation for plastic reduction
How can retail companies contribute to reduce plastic consumption? NHH researchers will find answers.
How to get sustainability into your core business
‘My best tip is to start thinking in new ways,’ said Fredrik Kondrup, founder and CEO of Indo Naturals. He attended this year’s CEMS Global Responsibility Week.
Sustainable business models to the masses
It is expected that businesses today work to reach sustainability goals, but how can they do this in practice? The CEMS strategic partnership project "Sustainable Business Models" has produced open access teaching modules which address this challenge.
Yara on human rights
Svein Tore Holsether, CEO of Yara, is keynote speaker at Thorolf Rafto Challenge. As the world´s leading fertilizer company he will talk about the human rights dilemmas Yara faces.
Fight against corruption in shipping
Key players in Norwegian shipping attended a seminar at NHH this week. Representatives from Grieg Star, Odfjell, DOF and Wilh.Wilhelmsen met experts in crime and governance.
Investing with both our heads and our hearts
Do we listen to our heads or our hearts when investing? In an extensive field experiment involving 140,000 bank customers, two NHH researchers have investigated what motivates customers to invest in green funds.