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Clinical Professor NYU Stern School of Business, lots of other hats, even more opinions. Author of Higher Ground, Harvard Business Review Press, February 2024.

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Higher Ground got one of those posters!
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The state of things
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@HollinsMargaret @BylineTimes For 40 years, British politics has been dominated by a xenophobic terror of ‘economic migrants’. Meanwhile, ultra-wealthy kleptocrats coming to Britain to buy its football teams, entire swathes of its major cities, its newspapers, and its politicians has largely gone unremarked”
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And, my book draft is in!
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This is the cover of my book! Out in February!
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In the @WSJ today, I argue that today's ethics programs need to go far beyond legal risk, and consider compliance, culture and corporate responsibility in a more holistic and strategic way. I welcome your comments!
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It's my last day at @BSRnews and I'm overwhelmed with gratitude to all my colleagues and friends for the incredible opportunities I've had. My next adventure starts very soon, I'll be the new Executive Director of @EthicalSystems . Much to do and I could not be more excited!
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Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First
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I've read about 100 columns in the last 24 hours on why businesses shouldn't be silent on abortion. Every journalist out there seems to assume that "taking a stand" is the thing to do. Here, for @barronsonline , I argue that this is completely backwards:
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Oh totally, a city in the desert with air conditioned beaches, giant malls, unbearable temperatures much of the year, man made islands and no tax on gas. Sounds super resilient.
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I’m writing a book for Harvard Business Review press, on an era where we no longer believe that as long as a business doesn’t break the law, decisions to maximize profit are ethically neutral. Join our @EthicalSystems mailing list for updates!
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A reminder
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What gets measured gets managed - right? Well no, actually. What gets measured gets manipulated. More from me in ⁦ @qz ⁩ on the trouble with transparency🪞🪞🪞
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“It turns out that reporting is not a proxy for progress. Measurement is often nonstandard, incomplete, imprecise, and misleading. And headlines touting new milestones in disclosure and socially responsible investment are often just fanciful “greenwishing”
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My book is a real, physical thing!!!
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I spent 12 years as an investigator, so the idea of relying on self reported data is still absurd to me, yet it dominates ESG! via @FT
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It’s a polarized time. Can you keep politics out of the office? @JonHaidt and I discuss:
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Watch @JonHaidt and @FollowAlisonT discuss how stakeholder capitalism, employee activism, and the growing transparency of company political values, make the prospect of a depoliticized corporate culture dubious. via @NYUStern
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Yeah
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How much do overpaid CEOs really matter for culture? We took a look 👇
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Would there be a benefit to a smaller gap between CEO and employee compensation, in terms of employee perceptions of company culture, motivation, commitment, or other important factors? We take a look in this new post —>
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On ⁦⁦ @qz ⁩ today I argue that the current approach to corporate responsibility is no longer fit for purpose, given public anger over abuses of trust and power by business.
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Companies have committed to “balance” the interests of all their stakeholders. What does this *actually* mean? When everyone is yelling at you, how do you decide who to listen to? Today in the @WSJ , I try to answer this question!
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I ❤️ librarians
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Soon just Ivanka, Jared and a few generals will remain. So basically it's Angola #bannonout
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One of the big downsides of the ESG movement is that — at least for now — we've prioritized disclosure over actually doing something. I discuss this, and much more, with the brilliant @mby on his latest Purpose podcast:
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I have no business winning awards for anything, but this is a great list of 50 top women in sustainability globally, and I’m very proud to be in such company!
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Acceptable email response times are a funny thing. How long before your response is considered slow? Private sector: half a day, or in some contexts, ten minutes NGO: a week Academia; four months 🙄
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2020 travel
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The page proofs of my book arrived!
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THIS
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Excellent from @pdacosta Ingrained racism is the reason Americans can’t have nice things
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London sunset
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The revolution will feature smartphones in handcarts, via @Bruno_J_Navarro
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99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route! #googlemapshacks
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“The level of cognitive dissonance is becoming absurd. Consultancies have embraced the fads for DEI and ESG with the same enthusiasm that they once embraced downsizing and leveraged buyouts. But their billable hours tell a different story.”
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“We will start to see a gulf opening up between companies that embrace stakeholder capitalism and ESG rhetoric, and those… maximising short term shareholder value”: Crystal gazing with ⁦ @pgupta79 ⁩ - what a fun conversation!
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Should companies pull out of #Russia ? What about #China ? Should they speak up on abortion rights, or gun control? The @FT reviews the situation, with thoughts from me and many brilliant friends
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Coronavirus is going to show whether all today’s responsible business rhetoric means anything when the going gets tough. Watch the gap between what businesses should do, and what they actually do. From @Edgecliffe in the @FT , with thoughts from me!
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If you thought no one would be dumb enough to run a manel anymore, you would be wrong.
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Are we being real now? This is straight depressing
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Everyone should read @HC_Richardson ''s threads on politics
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Let's talk about today's fears of "voter fraud," why the modern GOP pushes them, and how they have warped our politics since 1986, shall we? In 1986, Reagan's sixth year, the GOP had to defend vulnerable Senators elected w/him in 1980. (The House was already Democratic).1/
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Good morning to the victor
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Brazil is at boiling point
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NEW 🚨 Massive number of people protest in Brazil demanding President Bolsonaro's impeachment
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Higher Ground is on the move!
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Hilariously I am quoted in here as the “note of sobriety” after apparently almost universal ecstasy at the Patagonia news?! 🤷‍♀️
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No one can agree on what “purpose” is, but generating bland generic mission statements seems to be a thriving industry ⁦ @FT
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Fascinating! For all the predictions about remote work damaging ethical conduct, the opposite seems to be true. With less social pressure, whistleblowing has skyrocketed: via @business
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In which I argue that #sustainability practitioners might be well served to focus a bit less on the business case for #ESG , and a bit more on how humans actually change their minds:
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The biggest problem in the world today, which is saying something
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EXCLUSIVE: @openDemocracy has been leaked documents from the Bolsonaro regime showing their strategy to destroy the Amazon Rainforest:
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In early 2012, I read a dystopian novel about a pandemic in NYC, where the clueless protagonist repeatedly fails to escape to the Catskills. I married the author 16 months later and am now living through his novel, but from the Catskills. More here!
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The thinking of anticorruption activists has shifted significantly in recent years, as #LuandaLeaks shows. Kleptocrats gonna kleptocrat - let's focus on the accountants, lawyers and consultants that make all the looting possible. More here:
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What do the #LuandaLeaks tell us about the current state of anticorruption efforts? I dissect the key takeaways today on @FCPA
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Oh, look at that! Maybe if I describe myself as a "polymath" people will be more keen to give me money and less keen for me to moderate their panel/give their nephew free career advice/review their pitch for free? Maybe not.
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I have just finished grading professional manifestos from 45 undergrad seniors, and its all crypto analysts, doing crazy things with blockchain, an influencer with 440k TikTok followers! We are in for quite the culture shift, even in more conventional jobs, just wait.
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When you order an English breakfast tea in New York, and then watch as the barista pours cold milk in first, tops it up with hot water, and finally dunks the bag 😱😱😱 London bound, thank god!
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London bound, for first time since February 2020!
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You don’t manage reputational risk by managing reputational risk!
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This is what the midterms will be like, and I’m so fed up already
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Delighted to announce that after months of hard work, the new @EthicalSystems website is live!! Check it out!
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In our @EthicalSystems new year post, @JonHaidt and I reflect on a turbulent year in ethical culture:
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2020 disrupted and transformed many things, including organizational culture. There is much to do in 2021, and our directors @FollowAlisonT and @JonHaidt would love to continue the conversation on fostering ethical culture as we look ahead in the new year.
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Hey @ManelWatchUS curious if there is a term for the exhaustion that comes from repeatedly being asked to be the token woman/moderator on what would otherwise be a manel?
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Our obsession with “transparency” has gone too far. We need to rediscover the importance of human dignity and autonomy.
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Do Look Up
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@BasedLibrarian Have you heard of the internet?
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“Do not disregard the advice of a specialist just because you do not understand” (1918 flu prevention tip)
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It’s been a long week
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“ It’s hard to think of another recent instance in which one human being has defied the collective expectations for his behavior and provided such an inspiring moment of service to the people, clarifying the terms of the conflict through his example”
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
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“It’s not diversity in surface-level demographic characteristics of team members that enhances collective intelligence. It’s deep-level diversity, where team members differ in their viewpoints and information.”
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I am absolutely not an influential person on any form of social media. But this Linked In post has had well over a million views in 72 hours. 2 conclusions: 1) Zelensky resonates, more than any other political leader in living memory 2) men adore Elon Musk
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We just updated our @EthicalSystems research page on corruption, and it’s a zinger!
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Merry Christmas! 🎁
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As infection concerns boost remote working, “everybody in New York thinks they’ll sit at home and get takeout, but nobody who delivers takeout or Amazon parcels gets paid sick leave,” points out Alison Taylor, executive director of NYU Stern's Ethical Systems centre.
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Coronavirus is going to show whether all today’s responsible business rhetoric means anything when the going gets tough. Watch the gap between what businesses should do, and what they actually do. From @Edgecliffe in the @FT , with thoughts from me!
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When business better reflects public opinion than government, we are truly in interesting times: 145 business leaders implore Senate to act on gun violence, saying doing nothing is ‘simply unacceptable’
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Fascinating read via @RichardBistrong . Time pressure short circuits ethical reasoning, as this study shows:
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JPMorgan was warned by its compliance team over the “great risk” of corruption just days before it transferred funds to a former Nigerian oil minister convicted of money laundering via @markets
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