Why Your Company Should Focus on Being a Good Place to Be From
We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation. This past April, 2.7 percent of Americans quit their jobs, the highest rate on record. And according to a study by Microsoft, over 40 percent of the global workforce...
ESG and the Risk of Moral Licensing
We are entering an era of unprecedented Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) imperatives, which will hopefully be beneficial to millions of people in many ways. But those involved in ESG efforts (and others who “do good”)...
From Academia to Wall Street: Discussing DEI at Business Schools
In this Heterodox Academy panel, Debi Ghate, vice president of strategy and programs at Philanthropy Roundtable, moderates a conversation with Alison Taylor, Ravi S. Kudesia, and John Hasnas. Challenging conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion...
How a Soviet Miner Helped Create Today’s Intense Corporate Workplace Culture
One summer night in August, 1935, a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov managed to extract 102 metric tons of coal in a single shift. This was nothing short of extraordinary (according to Soviet planning,...
How to Understand Political Polarization in the Workplace
In this conversation from the NeuroLeadership Institute, host David Rock speaks with Jon Haidt and Alison Taylor about the social and technological origins of our politically polarized era, and how it now affects the dynamics...
Robert Bilott, Author of “Exposure,” Reflects on His Fight Against Corporate Arrogance
In October 1998, a Parkersburg, West Virginia, cattle farmer named Earl Tennant noticed that his livestock was dying from a strange illness. Half of his cows and their calves had mysteriously died, and the rest...
How Biden Can Take His National Action Plan for Business Seriously
Last month, as President Biden’s European trip took center stage, his administration made a welcome but little-noticed commitment that the U.S. government will update what’s known as the National Action Plan (NAP) on responsible business...
Why You Should Spotlight Exemplary Ethical Behavior at Work
Organizations, to their detriment, often overlook opportunities to spotlight exemplary behavior—ethical behavior in particular. Increasingly remote workforces, with limited non-essential communication, likely worsen the situation. And the situation as it stands isn’t that great. Most...
Arguments for and Against Capitalism in the Black Intellectual Tradition
There is a popular view arguing that racial repression and other American institutions are so enmeshed with each other that it is impossible to separate them. Our politics, our economy—everything—is complicit in perpetuating the subjugation...
Disputes Over DEI Depend on How You Define Fairness
Decades after the 1960s civil rights movement, racial inequality persists. In an effort to reduce it, an explosion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in business, government, and higher education now lights up the skies...