Book description
An indispensable guide to help companies navigate the new era of ethical challenges and risks in a volatile global landscape.
Today's headlines teem with employee unrest over racial injustice, communities infuriated by corporate environmental impacts, staff anxiety over surveillance, public outrage over corruption in business, and discoveries of child labor in supply chains. We've traveled far and fast from the old world of business ethics, where black-and-white concerns about bribery and fraud could be addressed via rules and processes. Simply maximizing shareholder value while not breaking the law is no longer a tenable approach, but we've never been so confused about what it means to do the right thing—and why it's so important.
In this eye-opening, essential book, NYU Stern ethics professor Alison Taylor argues that amid stakeholder demands and transparency pressures, we can no longer treat ethics as merely a legal and reputational defense mechanism. Leaders at Davos and the Business Roundtable have called for a new corporate responsibility paradigm, but organizations struggle to implement these ideas in an atmosphere of heightened expectations and intense suspicion. Offering vivid stories and examples from years working in anti-corruption and advising companies on ethics, Taylor brings this complex, risky environment alive to provide a blueprint for how leaders can rethink and reshape their practices. How can CEOs cut through the noise to set robust environmental and social priorities? When should they speak out on contentious social and political issues—and how? What does it really take to build a healthy organizational culture? How are we to approach corporate values when society itself is so divided?
Higher Ground shows leaders how business can navigate this messy paradigm shift, build trust, and achieve long-term strategic advantage in a turbulent world.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword, by Jonathan Haidt
- Introduction: Rethinking Ethical Business (Just Don’t Say “Ethics”)
- Part I: A Turbulent, Transparent World
- Part II: Business Doing the Right Thing
- Part III: Leading and Shaping the Future
- Conclusion: Purpose Starts with Impact
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Higher Ground
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2024
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781647823443
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