246I_Boyd Cohen, Academic Director of Sustainability at EGADE Business School of Tec de Monterrey

What is The Future for Cities?

"We're not going to get where we need to as a spieces unless we embrace and enable abundance!"

Are you interested in abundance capitalism? What do you think about flourishing versus sustainability? How can we create prosperity and abundance?

Interview with Boyd Cohen, the Academic Director of Sustainability at EGADE Business School of Tec de Monterrey. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, abundance and prosperity, choosing battles, and many more.

Boyd Cohen is the Academic Director of Sustainability at EGADE Business School of Tec de Monterrey. He is also an International Fellow at Hult International Business School's Futures Impact Lab where he is focused on researching and inspiring the next generation of climate champions. After finishing a three-year stint at Accenture, Boyd obtained his Ph.D. in strategy and entrepreneurship from the University of Colorado (2001). He has published 3 books (Climate Capitalism, 2011; The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur, 2016; Post-capitalist Entrepreneurship, 2017), dozens of peer reviewed articles including the highest cited articles on sustainable entrepreneurship and on shared mobility and has contributed guest posts to Fast Company, CoinDesk and GITEX Impact in recent years. He remains President of the Board of Iomob and is finishing his 4th book, Abundance Capitalism.

Find out more about Boyd through these links:

• Boyd Cohen on LinkedIn
• @boydcohen as Boyd Cohen on X
• Boyd Cohen at the EGADE Business School
• Boyd Cohen on Wikipedia
• Boyd Cohen on Google Scholar
• Climate Capitalism on Amazon - book by L. Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohen
• The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur on Amazon - book by Boyd Cohen, Pablo Muñoz, and Richard Florida
• Post-capitalist Entrepreneurship on Amazon - book by Boyd Cohen

Connected episodes you might be interested in:

• No.227R - Regenerative development and transitions thinking
• No.244 - Interview with Joe Glesta about urban resilience and the death of sustainaiblity
• No.245R - Abundance Capitalism

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