Drawing on research by HEC Paris Professors Sam Aflaki and Andrea Masini, together with Syed Abul Basher, this article examines how governments can create the right conditions for renewable energy innovation and adoption.

The world our students are graduating into in 2026 looks nothing like the one for which textbooks were written. Volatility, complexity, and rapid change aren't edge cases anymore; they’re the baseline. So the question CEMS faculty have been exploring is not whether we prepare students for unpredictability, but how we do it.

The most recent report “Value Sharing Mechanisms: From Optional to Indispensable?” produced by the Sustainability & Organizations Institute at CEMS founding member HEC Paris offers a timely contribution to debates on how firms can create prosperity more fairly and more durably.

In today’s world, disruption is not only technological, but also geopolitical, social and organisational, and this matters deeply for sustainability because it reshapes everything from supply chains and energy systems to regulation, talent and trust. In that context, simply anticipating shocks or adapting after the fact is not enough.

Alessandro Laspia (Politecnico di Torino), Davide Viglialoro (Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia), Giuliano Sansone (University College Dublin – Our CEMS partner), and Paolo Landoni (Politecnico di Torino) address a timely question for business schools and corporate partners alike: can ventures designed to deliver both financial returns and measurable societal value grows in the same way as conventional startups?