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New research shows that the same CEO personality trait can cause a company to either operate in a more environmentally friendly way or be less committed to sustainability. Companies with female CEOs who are not narcissistic tend to perform best environmentally. This is due to societal differences in how women and men in top positions are viewed.Source: HSG NewsroomThe same personality trait in a CEO can cause a company to either operate in a more

An HSG study shows why progress towards gender equality in companies is often slow: according to the researchers, male managers are unable to fully commit to their role as advocates – and thus undermine efforts to achieve equality.Why is progress towards gender equality in leadership positions so slow, despite the numerous programmes run by many companies? HSG researchers Julia Nentwich and Chris Steyaert – both organisational psychologists – hav

A new scientific study, just published in the Review of Financial Studies, takes on one of the central debates in sustainable finance: does green investing weaken public support for climate policy, or do the two go hand in hand?There is a central question that divides critics and supporters of sustainable investing. Some believe that sustainable investment can have a positive effect on addressing climate change. Others argue that private climate

Why do some companies remain innovative in times of crisis, whilst others lose momentum under mounting pressure and fail? Answers to these questions are provided by research from the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St.Gallen.Rising uncertainty, rapid technological developments and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamentally transforming companies. Many organisations are responding by incre

Anyone searching through legal texts has to use a wide range of tools – even professionals lose a lot of time doing so. Now, the start-up Lexplorer, founded by HSG student Jules Rutishauser, has launched a legal AI that revolutionises this search process.The team behind Lexplorer: Jules and Yves Rutishauser with Noah Chavannes (from left).Jules Rutishauser was frustrated: as an HSG student and as an intern at law firms, consultancy firms and cour

Many companies are investing heavily in generative AI (GenAI), but few are seeing a measurable return on investment. HSG Researchers Kevin Schmitt and Ivo Blohm wanted to know why.“Creating value for your company using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), like LLMs and chatbots, does not come from giving everyone access to these tools hoping that something magical will happen,” said Schmitt and Blohm.  In their research project, the t

Award-winning topics this year range from marketing initiatives for sustainable consumption to AI-supported detection of malnutrition in hospitals and the circular economy of skills and competencies in the labour market.The University of St.Gallen (HSG) honours outstanding research annually with the HSG Impact Award. The award recognises HSG researchers whose projects make a notable contribution to society.In 2026 a total of three projects were r

While many companies are talking about AI, the guests representing the younger generation at the 55th St. Gallen Symposium ask a more fundamental question: what kind of work and organisation should AI actually create? Antoinette Weibel and Blagoy Blagoev from HSG provide some context.The new “Voices of the Leaders of Tomorrow” report, or VOLOT 2026 for short, a collaboration of the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions and the St. Gallen Sympo

48 hours of coding, testing, discarding ideas and rethinking: at START Hack 2026 in St.Gallen, students from various disciplines worked on tackling real-world business challenges. The winning team, "Runtime Terrors", won the competition with a solution for Belimo. By student reporter Adria Pop.For Murat Abdullin, Dalia Shaaban, Max Neuwinger (all three ETH), Danylo Koza (Zaporizhzhya National Technical University) and many others, what

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The fashion industry is discovering artificial intelligence (AI) as a new photo studio. Images of models can now be generated in seconds – more cost-effectively and flexibly than any photo shoot. But with these new possibilities comes a key question: when is the use of such images responsible? A study by the University of St.Gallen, using the example of the mail-order retailer OTTO, shows that the answer must be re-evaluated time and again.The im

The recently published “The Swiss Business in China Survey 2025” shows that confidence in China as a business location remains high, even though conditions are becoming more challenging. At the same time, competition is intensifying significantly and requires modified strategies.The study “The Swiss Business in China Survey 2025”, conducted by the China Competence Center at the University of St.Gallen (HSG), examines the situation and expectation

Crowded city centres, early discount campaigns and lively online trade characterised the Christmas season. After several weaker years, initial signs point to a slight recovery. An evaluation by the University of St.Gallen shows that real consumer spending rose by around one per cent, driven primarily by online retail sales around Black Friday.The 2025 Christmas season, from Black Friday through the pre-Christmas period to a few days after Christm

Banks are key players in the green transition, but funds often continue to flow into fossil fuel projects. The new HSG research project “climateB” will investigate how non-governmental pressure can turn the tide in the financial sector.

Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Research from the University of St.Gallen’s Monitoring Consumption Switzerland reveals that this year's Black Friday week gave Swiss retailers a boost.

A new report from global research and education pioneers at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP), the University of St.Gallen and The Impact, provides insight into how private wealth management firms can support wealth holders achieve real-world impact.

How do organizations actually handle a large-scale cyber incident when the "internet is on fire"? A new study from the Center for Security and Resilience at the Stockholm School of Economics provides an inside look at how a major Swedish public sector organization responded to the Log4Shell vulnerability - one of the most critical cybersecurity threats of the past decade.Drawing on semi-structured interviews and organizational documenta

How should we evaluate performance in the public sector when so many outcomes depend on factors beyond local control? A new study from the Center for Municipality Governance at the Stockholm School of Economics, published in The Accounting Review, one of the world's top three accounting journals, explores this question through the lens of the "controllability principle".The controllability principle holds that organizations and indi

Some ways of designing products make R&D teams more creative and efficient, while others can hold them back. A new study published by House of Innovation researcher Stefan Haefliger in Industrial and Corporate Change reveals that understanding two distinct aspects of product modularity is key to improving innovation. By treating standardization and reconfigurability as separate dimensions rather than a single concept, the study offers clearer