Anne-Laure Fayard, along with her co-authors Jess Majekodunmi, Martina Mendola, PhD and Rachel Kenny, PhD, in their recent Harvard Business Review article argue that "Innovation is more than generating an idea—it is a long, collaborative journey" and show the importance of collaboration intermediary in supporting innovation for social impact. Explore the full article here.

Miguel Pina e Cunha, Ace Simpson (Center for Compassion Studies, New York), Stewart Clegg, and Arménio Rego (Católica Porto Business School) had their paper in the Academy of Management Insights. Blocking Psychopaths, Narcissists, and Machiavellians from Leadership will be also promoted in the April Insights newsletter and featured open-access on the aom.org/Insights homepage, then shared on social media.

Patient Innovation has commemorated its 10th anniversary since the launch of the online platform!

A decade ago, Patient Innovation started as a simple research project that developed into the current international platform for patients, caregivers, and collaborators of any disease to share their innovations within the community we know now. To celebrate this milestone, Patient Innovation is organizing 10 different impactful activities over this next year, which will be announced throughout the next 12 months. To kick off this celebration it was launched the new 10th birthday brochure. Check it out here.

Nova SBE congratulates the PhD students who have concluded their doctoral thesis.

Yueling Zhou, PhD in Management

Thesis: “Three Essays on Internationalization strategies: International market selection and entry modes”

Supervisor: Emanuel Gomes

Mariia Murasheva, PhD in Economics and Finance

Thesis: “Essays in Environmental Economics”

Supervisor: Maria Antonieta Cunha e Sá

João Pedro Delgado, PhD in Management

Thesis: “Micro-foundations in M&A”

Supervisor: Emanuel Gomes

The Nova SBE Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center launched the book Management, Leadership, and Innovation in the Social Economy Sector, a project coordinated by Miguel Pina e Cunha and Rita Diniz, developed within the scope of the Social Equity Initiative, a partnership between the Foundation “la Caixa”, BPI and Nova SBE. The 15 chapters of this book were written by 29 authors, in a collaboration between academics, Nova SBE partners, and personalities from the social economy sector, who reflected on some of the current challenges of leadership, governance, and management.

Pedro Pita Barros participated in the fifth UK-Portugal Forum on Healthy Aging: economic and social opportunities. He spoke on the “Longevity dividend: realizing economic opportunities” panel.

The event was organized by the British Embassy with the support of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Medical School and SBE). He also participated in the "Health Policies in the 2024 Legislative Elections" an initiative that aimed to debate the main health policies of the different parties in the legislative elections.

Nova SBE Health Economics & Management held a seminar with Mateus Dias from Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics about “Bargaining, Pooling, and Premium Inflation in the Brazilian Small Group Health Insurance Market”.

Filipa Castanheira was a speaker at the Nova SBE Well-being Week 2024. She moderated the opening panel "How to Prevent and survive burnout".

Marco Berti participated in the Reading People – HR Mental Health Conference, this year under the theme “Handle with Care – The Power of Fragility to Lead the New World”. He presented the talk «Organizational Interdependence, to avoid toxic compassion and fragile resilience».

Liliana Diniz, PhD from Nova SBE with specialization in family businesses, participated in the ESG Talks in the panel "Governance in family businesses – What rules for succession, conflict management and professionalization?".

Luís Catela Nunes participated in a debate following the presentation of an EDULOG study in the Edutalk - The demographic and labor reality of public education teachers in Portugal"

Nova SBE celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, with a livestream with Melissa Prado and Claudia Custódio, Associate Professor of Finance at Imperial College London and Visiting Professor at Nova SBE,  on LinkedIn on the theme "Humor & Finance".

Ana Balcão Reis participated in the Round Table: “Reflection on the PISA results in Portugal” of the Seminar “Building the Future: PISA and the perspectives of research on school education and childhood education”. The event was organized by the Pedagogical Support and Educational Innovation Division of the Department of Education with the partner entity of the Educar Melhor Local Basic Education Network in Cascais, the Association of Early Childhood Education Professionals (APEI).

Eduardo Costa participated in an initiative by the Associação Portuguesa de Economia da Saúde (APES) to debate health policies in the context of the 2024 legislative elections. The event included the presentation of an analysis of electoral programs. He also participated in the conference organized by the Associação Nacional dos Centros de Diálise.

Pedro Freitas participated in the II Education Summit, organized by the Student Association of the Facultdade de Economia of Porto, in the panel "Higher Education: Who gets in the way?". "Tuition fees, scholarships and loans: what is the desirable mix?”, was the panel where Susana Peralta participated.

Graham Miller moderated the “Regenerating People, Places and Tourism” conference, organized by the Nova SBE Westmont Institute of Tourism & Hospitality in the Bolsa de Turismo de Lisboa. The event addressed “crucial issues” for the sector: the interaction between companies and local communities and the use of tourism to regenerate these same communities and their environments and spaces, as well as the role of Regenerative Tourism in issues related to climate change and the challenges of the mass movement of people.

Pedro Oliveira joined the AACSB Dean’s Conference, where the most pressing issues for business school leaders, namely how artificial intelligence is changing the dean's role and how digital transformation will impact school activities. He also hosted Karim Lakhani at Nova SBE for a session on "Competing in the Age of AI". Karim is a professor at Harvard Business School and the chair and co-founder of the Digital Data Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard: he is at the forefront of our collaborative efforts to establish Nova a sister institute of D^3 at Harvard. The event also featured an insightful panel discussion where Leid Zejnilovic participated to share with other participants his perspectives and expertise, enriching the conversation around the implications of AI in their respective fields.

Cátia Batista, in the scope of the Places of (Im)permanence Exhibition at Nova SBE, participated in a debate held at our library about migrations and gentrification. In this round table, we will discuss the trajectories of immigration and gentrification in the city of Lisbon, and their implications for the life, economy, identity, opportunities, and creativity of local communities, with a special focus on African migration.

Pedro Neves participated in “Conversations with Meaning” within the scope of the "People First on the CEO Agenda 2024" conference, where he spoke about Change Management.

Rodrigo Tavares participated in the Encontros Fora da Caixa, in Évora, dedicated to the theme “The challenges of companies in the ESG era” where he argued that sustainability “is no longer optional” for companies, even defending that ESG objectives are becoming such form priorities in the needs of companies that will soon become as common or routine as financial planning or the development of new products.