Call for nominations: ASF–George Molenkamp Thesis Award 2025
Call for nominations ASF–George Molenkamp Thesis Award 2025 for Master’s theses within UvA Economics and Business programmes.
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A Sustainable Future
Platform for a broader research agenda
A Sustainable Future (ASF) is a research platform integrating the Amsterdam School of Economics and the Amsterdam Business School research on key societal themes. The platform takes inspirations from the sustainability themes recommended by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and is endorsed by our university's Executive Board.
Highlights
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Hiring bias in recruitment
A recent study by Alejandro Hirmas and Jan Hausfeld (both with the Amsterdam School of Economics Microeconomics section) explores how intermediaries form beliefs about hiring managers’ preferences and whether these ...Alejandro Hirmas - Granted project (Round 2023) -
What kind of recycling system works best for consumers?
After moving from Italy to the Netherlands, Martina Cossu (ABS Marketing section) was struck by the significant differences in how recycling systems were categorised. This led her question how such changes could ...Martina Cossu - Granted project (Round 2022) -
Becoming a Purpose-Driven Firm
There are 3 Amsterdam Business School (ABS) researchers involved in the study on purpose-driven firms: Zahra Kashanizadeh, Henk Volberda and Pushpika Vishwanathan and a researcher from Leeds University Business ...Zahra Kashanizadeh - Granted project (Round 2022)
Upcoming events
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SEEMS Seminar with Matteo Valle (ASE, UvA) & Shelby Matevich (ABS, UvA)
27 Oct 2025“Environmental regulatory risk and asset prices” & "Entrepreneurship and transformative change: An evidence-based roadmap from the conservation sciences"Read more -
Seminars on Environmental Economics and Management of Sustainability
The number of researchers at UvA Economics & Business that work on Environmental Economics and Sustainability has increased significantly over the past years. To provide a natural meeting place for them, we have ...Read more about the SEEMS Seminars
About the ASF platform
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Goals
We aim at promoting the broadest contribution of business and economic scholarship to pressing societal needsRead more about our goals -
Grants applications and eligible expenses
A Sustainable Future (ASF) offers small research grants for faculty members of the Amsterdam School of Economics and the Amsterdam Business School.Read more -
Staff
A Sustainable Future is meant as a diffused initiative rather than a research centre, and will therefore be based on active participation and research relevance.Read more