Alison Taylor
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New York, NY, United States
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Covid-19 and business integrity: A stunned and needy world is watching
When the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Transparency and Anti-Corruption gathered in Dubai last November, a pandemic was the last thing on our minds. We had been tasked by the World Economic Forum to think creatively and broadly about the future of integrity across institutions ... → Read More
Five takeaways from the Luanda Leaks
In 2013, National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked a large volume of highly classified information to investigative journalists, inspiring a new generation of whistleblowers. Since then, we’ve all been given access to the Panama and Paradise Papers. Last week brought the latest r ... → Read More
Leaked Boeing emails show slippery slope of a bad compliance culture
Today’s hyper-transparent environment has given the public stunning opportunities to review internal communications from executives at leading companies and to pass real-time judgments on the strengths and vulnerabilities of their cultures. In some cases, as with Away, Google, and Facebook, empl ... → Read More
Is Stakeholder Engagement the Key to Successful Community Standards?
Ongoing debates about leadership, governance, and regulation of social media are highly relevant to any stakeholder engagement discussion for platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. → Read More
Exploring employee activism: Why this stakeholder group can no longer be ignored
Don’t underestimate the power of your workforce as a vocal advocate for transparency and change, with a huge impact on strategy and reputation. → Read More
Exploring Employee Activism: Why This Stakeholder Group Can No Longer Be Ignored
For companies used to thinking about stakeholder engagement as an external-facing exercise, the strength and speed of staff unrest has been a surprise. Companies in all sectors need to start regarding employees as their most significant interest group. → Read More
Why 2019 is the year of stakeholder trust
Without it, innovation and technical disruption can go only so far. → Read More
Why 2019 Is the Year of Stakeholder Trust
In 2019, the question of how to build and retain stakeholder trust—among investors, regulators, customers, suppliers, civil society organizations, and the general public—is the most pressing challenge facing business. → Read More
Here's how to fix our ‘schizophrenic’ anticorruption efforts
Last year, I was proud to participate as an adviser in a project commissioned by the U.K. governme... → Read More
What Larry Fink’s 2019 Letter Means for the Future of Business
Here are our four main takeaways from this year's letter from BlackRock's Larry Fink to CEOs. → Read More
Are Companies and Stakeholders Focusing on the Same Sustainability Priorities?
We looked at online news and social media conversations around the business practices of 4,000 global companies across sectors to determine alignment between company and stakeholder priorities. → Read More
Alison Taylor: Today's compliance is more than due diligence and red flags
Every year for the past decade, BSR has surveyed sustainability leaders at our global member compa... → Read More
Is This the Beginning of the End for Impunity?
Impunity is a daily issue in the lives of many who work in governance, risk, and compliance, but the structures supporting impunity in both public institutions and private organizations seem to be growing less reliable. → Read More
Alison Taylor: Do compliance officers have a role in corporate activism?
Almost a year ago, James Cohen and I wrote about six megatrends that we believed would fundamental... → Read More
Sustainability Management for a Rapidly Changing World: Q&A with Erb Institute’s Terry Nelidov
Terry Nelidov, managing director of the Erb Institute, shared his insights on how millennials in leadership roles will impact sustainability management, the importance of metrics and leadership support for sustainability, and the convergence of environmental and social issues. → Read More
Alison Taylor: Compliance could be perfect if it didn't involve people
For the last several years, academic attention has converged on questions of behavioral ethics, an... → Read More
The case for merging sustainability, risk and compliance
Why companies like AstraZeneca are moving sustainability from a "nice-to-have" into an existential consideration. → Read More
Culture, Behavior, and Corporate Integrity 2.0
Today's social and political dynamics have further sharpened the need for companies to rethink corporate purpose, values, and ethics beyond compliance. → Read More
Sustainability, change leadership and collaboration: From the why to the how
Looking to understand the growing pains on the path to corporate change . → Read More
The era of stand-alone sustainability is over
It's not about integration, but changing the very way that companies design strategy and create value. → Read More