Allison Taylor is the author of Higher Ground and a Clinical Professor at NYU Stern School of Business. You can follow her here on LinkedIn.

Prateek Raj is the author of Atypical and an Associate Professor of Business and Health at UCL. You can follow him here on LinkedIn.

In this insightful conversation, Alison Taylor and Prateek Raj discuss their respective books, focusing on their fundamental disagreements with the status quo in corporate responsibility and ethics. They explore the issues of jargon, misleading consultancy advice, and the disconnection between ethics, sustainability, and PR conversations. Both stress the importance of empathy-driven, pragmatic multi-stakeholder approaches to business decisions. They criticize the oversimplification in current literature, argue for more holistic frameworks, and emphasize the need for integrating stakeholder perspectives, especially those from marginalized or atypical groups. The episode touches on the misalignment in ESG constructs, advocating for a more nuanced understanding of corporate impact as an open social system rather than a singular entity.

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