Our faculty has a large number of centers of expertise – centers, institutes and laboratories. In this section, we announce the creation of new centers and present a selection of the achievements of our centers and institutes.
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Can AI measure companies’ ESG performance?
As climate transparency requirements intensify, ESG teams within companies are struggling to keep pace. In Switzerland and beyond, the production of reliable indicators still relies heavily on manual processes or surveys—approaches that are often costly and difficult to scale. This tension between growing regulatory demands and limited resources calls for a rethinking of measurement methods.…
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Predicting the unpredictable: striving for better economic forecasting
We live in unpredictable times, whether this relates to the global economy and business, the climate or geopolitics. Anticipating the risks is important to humanity’s future resilience. This involves making sense of increasingly complex information aided with new tools. In this series we look at the work of researchers as they strive to make better…
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Environmental impact: the hidden side of Swiss finance
Switzerland has relatively modest CO₂ emissions within its borders. But if we follow the trail of money it invests abroad, the picture becomes bleaker. Every day, Swiss banks, insurance companies and investors finance companies operating around the world. These companies mine, produce energy, manufacture goods and transport commodities. Their activities generate CO₂ emissions, consume water…