Although the public sector is seen as the main party responsible for taking action on climate change and sustainable development, private commercial banks are in a unique position to support or shift the funding focus on green investment. By employing a qualitative research approach based on six commercial banks, this paper aims to investigate the current practices of how commercial banks are contributing to advance green business initiatives. Accordingly, this research examines and identifies the facilitators and challenges in domestic and foreign commercial banks in Vietnam which support green business initiatives. In addition to addressing the recent calls for the investigation of the role of commercial banks in facilitating green finance, our study expands the emerging literature by demonstrating the current efforts of Vietnam's commercial banks in fostering green finance during the Covid‐19 pandemic.

Higher education institutions play a critical role in spreading the importance and significance of social entrepreneurship and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the younger generations. Besides developing curriculums, business talk events which are organized by universities can be a great source for raising awareness of the importance of UN SDGs and social entrepreneurship. By employing a qualitative research approach based on six universities, this study investigates how business talk events can be designed and organized for raising awareness of the importance of social entrepreneurship and UN SDGs. Accordingly, it identifies the implications of business talk events organized by universities and the following drivers and barriers regarding the introduction of these events. Our study expands to the emerging literature on both event management and social entrepreneurship and responds to the recent calls for the investigation of the events in the higher education context in facilitating sustainability.