The Lab-Center for Competitiveness has emerged from the affiliation that Grenoble Ecole de Management has developed since 2009, with the Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness, at Harvard Business School, led by Professor Michael E. Porter.

Professor David Grayson, Director of the is working on the design and is promoting an open-source pooling of ideas.

Peter Hardi and Gergely Radácsi reached the final stage of their joint research project concentrating on the construction of a framework to connect CSR to complex society issues. In the frame of the reseach, the Center participates in a national network aiming at the promotion of workplace prevention programmes in the field of substance abuse and mental health promotion. The findings will be published in peer reviewed international journals.

The Bellagio STAMP project (Sustainable Assessment and Measurement Principles) funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and IISD, aims at developing a general set of guidelines for measuring sustainable development, an international team with the co-leadership of Prof. Hardi worked out a set of sustainability assessment and measurement principles. OECD has also joined this initiative through launching its project measuring social progress. The new sets of principles are already published on the OECD and some other major websites. Presently Prof Hardi with his co-authors are writing a journal article on the Principles, to be published in 2010.

The Center has already completed the research that aimed at developing a KPI system for top management level at the company, and also presented the findings of the reflexive stakeholder mapping research. In the second phase of the cooperation, we will prepare an analysis of the CSR activities of the major Hungarian competitors of E.on.

FP7 IMPACT is a project concentrating on measuring social impact and sustainability of CSR activities. Its main objective is to develop CSR measurement methods, defining what incentives to use and how to achieve that public policy framework promote CSR. The Center is involved in three of the seven research work packages, among which we will conduct case studies of several businesses in selected sectors and will also participate in the Delphi analysis, a poll among experts. The first meeting of the representatives of the business schools involved will take place in Nottingham, UK, in March 2010 where the Center will be represented by Peter Hardi. Gergely Radácsi will be also contributing to the social side of the research.