Cafedirect was the first Fairtrade-certified business in the coffee industry, investing profits back into farmers while still being a successful B-corp and surviving the 1989 global collapse in coffee prices.

Cafedirect CEO John Steel joins Juliane Reinecke, Professor of International Management & Sustainability, as they discuss how the company has faced challenges from the financial crisis to creeping corporatisation, their work with farmers and communities around the world and how the coffee industry is facing current and ongoing crises like Covid-19 and climate change.

Learn more about Cafedirect: https://www.cafedirect.co.uk/

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Ultra-blue chip names are great on your CV, but they aren’t the only route to career success and satisfaction says Douglas Board, author of the book ‘Elites’. He joins Professor Crawford Spence and Careers Consultant Kate Woods on our Connections podcast to share insight gained from decades working with business leaders as a headhunter and executive coach.

He has advice for people at every career stage, from interviewing at a top firm to keeping your sense of self when you have reached the top.

King's Business School: www.kcl.ac.uk/business

Networking and putting your ideas out there can often be anxiety-inducing, but it can change your circumstances as well as the work you do in the wider community. Dr Gillian Brooks, King’s Business School, Peggy Jean-Louis, King's Business School's Senior Global Partnerships Manager, and Alero Akuya, Vice President, Global Brands, for The LEGO Group, speak about their own personal journeys with personal branding and purpose marketing, and how bringing your own authentic self can lead to success.

Learn more about King’s Business School: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/business

How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect gender equality? By the end of this month, both the UK government’s job protection scheme and the £20 uplift to Universal Credit that were key to protecting jobs and income during the pandemic will be over.

Our latest Connections podcast explores the evidence on whether women’s employment status, incomes and budgets were hit harder than men’s, and what the long-term consequences of this impact might be. How did work and income equality fare in other countries during the crisis and why does protecting those on the lowest incomes tend to result in the most equal outcomes?

King's Business School Professor of Employment Damian Grimshaw hosts Rose Cook, Senior Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership and Lindsay Judge, Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, to discuss their research in this area.

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Learn more about King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/giwl

Learn more about the Resolution Foundation: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/

Why do we sometimes feel like we have hit a dead end at work and why should it matter so much to our employers?

Dr Wei-Ning Yang, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour and careers consultant Kate Woods talk about the phenomenon of 'career plateau', the different forms it can take at different career stages and the steps individuals and managers can take to avoid it.

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After the financial crisis of 2007, the Dodd-Frank Act introduced a requirement that led lenders to tighten "payment to income" limits on new mortgages.

In this podcast episode, Professor David Aikman (Director, Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance) is joined by Alessandro Lin (Brown University and winner of the Centre's 2021 Young Economist Prize Competition) to discuss Alessandro's research on the macroeconomic implications of this policy and its implications for central banks' macroprudential frameworks.

Learn more about the Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/qatar-centre-global-banking-finance

NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, exploded into the mainstream in March 2021, with art, music and memes, like ‘Disaster Girl’, fetching high prices for digital goods that have no physical ownership.

Professor Alex Preda, is joined by Professor Sarah Green the Law Commission of England and Wales Commissioner for commercial and common law, and Ian Taylor Executive Director of Crypto UK, discuss the challenges of governing and regulating NFTs, the appeal of using NFTs by artists and whether the value of digital tokens like NFTs or cryptocurrencies is different than other sorts of assets.

This podcast was recorded in May 2021.

Learn more the FinWorks Futures Centre: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/business/research/centres/fintech-futures/finwork-futures-research-centre

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The last decade has seen the rise of cryptocurrencies, decentralised digital assets that are ‘mined’ and, supporters say, more secure than traditional currencies. But increasingly, regulation designed to curb illegal use of the currencies and concerns about the impact of cryptomining on the environment have taken centre stage.

Professor Alex Preda, is joined by Professor Sarah Green the Law Commission of England and Wales Commissioner for commercial and common law, and Ian Taylor Executive Director of Crypto UK, to discuss the basics of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, the murkier history of Bitcoin as a payment tool and whether Dogecoin should seriously be considered a real cryptocurrency.

This podcast was recorded in May 2021.

Learn more the FinWorks Futures Centre: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/business/research/centres/fintech-futures/finwork-futures-research-centre

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Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Building Culture and Diversity

Asking the tough questions might be uncomfortable, but it can lead to better outcomes in solving the gender pay gap.

Dr Ylva Baeckstrom, of our Economic Equality Impact Group, Marisa Hall, of the Thinking Ahead Institute, and Catriona Watt, of Fox & Partners, continue their discussion on breaking down barriers for women and ethnic minorities in financial services firms and how systems of support can bridge the gap between different levels of employees.

This podcast was recorded in April 2021.

Learn more about King’s Business School: www.kcl.ac.uk/business

Learn more about the Economic Equality Impact Group: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/economic-equality-impact-group

Why is there still a wider gender pay gap between the sexes in the financial services industry, half a century after the Equal Pay Act?

Dr Ylva Baeckstrom, of our Economic Equality Impact Group, Marisa Hall, of the Thinking Ahead Institute, and Catriona Watt, of Fox & Partners, discuss the factors that differentiate pay between men and women, the limited data from new Gender Pay Gap regulations, and the impacts that the coronavirus pandemic has had on women in different industries.

This podcast was recorded in April 2021.

Learn more about King’s Business School: www.kcl.ac.uk/business

Learn more about the Economic Equality Impact Group: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/economic-equality-impact-group