Alison is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business and former Executive Director of Ethical Systems. She has spent the past two decades consulting with multinational companies on risk, anti-corruption, sustainability, human rights, culture and behavior, stakeholder engagement, ESG, and ethics and compliance. Current commitments include being a senior advisor at sustainability nonprofit BSR and CEO advisory firm Enlighten, a member of the Board at Venture ESG, a collaborator at Ethical Systems and a sustainability adviser at KKR and Pictet Group. Her first book, Higher Ground, has been featured on the Financial Times best summer reading list of 2024.
Alison is a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU Stern School of Business and Executive Director of Ethical Systems. She has spent the last two decades consulting with multinational companies on risk, anti-corruption, sustainability, human rights, culture and behavior, stakeholder engagement, ESG, and ethics and compliance–including being a senior advisor at sustainability non-profit BSR, a member of the Board at Venture ESG, and a sustainability advisor at Zai Lab, KKR, and Pictet Group.
The very concepts of capitalism and democracy are being contested, and multiple crises are challenging corporate consensus on addressing broader societal and environmental issues.
Alison chats to Hui Chen and Zachary Consiglia about what being a good, ethical business even means anymore.
Higher Ground is another clarion call for business leaders to enable their organizations to operate in a different way. It should be read by everyone who aspires ‘to do the right thing’ in their organization.
Harvard Business Review | 2022
Greenbiz | Apr 2022
BBC Earth | Nov 2023
NYU Stern | May 2023
NYU Center for Global Affairs
Center on Global Energy Policy
Women in Energy
Quartz | Oct 2023
Quartz | Feb 2020
Quartz | 2023
Quartz | Jun 2018
MIT Sloan Mgmt Review | Jul 2022
The Wall Street Journal | June 2021
Quartz | Oct 2023
Quartz | Jun 2018
Quartz | Feb 2020
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In this session, New York University ethics professor Alison Taylor argues that amid stakeholder demands and transparency pressures, we need a new, more dynamic approach to doing the right thing. Taylor illustrates this complex, risky environment and provides a blueprint for how leaders should 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?
Taylor will show leaders how business can navigate this messy paradigm shift, build trust, and achieve long-term strategic advantage in a turbulent world.
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