Luk Van Wassenhove

Jul 18, 2024 | knowledge.insead.edu | Atalay Atasu |Luk Van Wassenhove

International sporting events are hardly associated with sustainability – not when organising a massive event successfully is in itself a tall order on many fronts. For the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics, we’re talking about hosting and housing 15,000 athletes and potentially 13 million spectators across 35 venues in France for a month. Against the odds, can Paris 2024 be a new model for sustainability for future games?

Jun 26, 2024 | knowledge.insead.edu | Luk Van Wassenhove

In today’s business environment, where the insatiable desire to grow profits overshadows environmental and social interests, it is easy to overlook how the actions of economic actors can shape corporate – and environmental – outcomes.    In the accounting profession, practitioners exercise scepticism and critical thinking to get their jobs done on a daily basis.

Jul 25, 2023 | knowledge.insead.edu | Insead Knowledge |Luk Van Wassenhove

In the past, humanitarian organisations have benefited from adapting best practices from the commercial sector, but businesses can also gain insights from how humanitarian organisations operate in extreme conditions. How do they overcome uncertainty, time pressure, challenging physical conditions and the lack of resources and information?