On November 5th, we’ll be joined by Alison Taylor to discuss her book, Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World. Taylor argues that amid stakeholder demands and transparency pressures, we can no longer treat ethics as a legal and reputational defense mechanism. We need to think more critically about what it means to be an ethical business and how far executives and employees should go in responding to internal and external issues. Taylor makes a cogent case for making the best effort to do no harm should take priority over involving organizations in tangential popular causes.
Alison Taylor
Alison Taylor is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business and former Executive Director of Ethical Systems. Her research focuses on the organizational dimension of corporate responsibility and business ethics. Taylor has expertise in strategy, sustainability, political and social risk, culture and behavior, human rights, ethics and compliance, stakeholder engagement, anti corruption and professional responsibility. She has spent the past two decades consulting with multinational companies on sustainability, human rights, culture and behavior, stakeholder engagement, and political risk.
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