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Corporate advocacy: shareholders, employees, and social values in practice

Published on August 31, 2026   26 min

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Interviewer: Today, I'm interviewing Prof. Alison Taylor, Clinical Associate Professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, on her article in Harvard Business Review on 6th of February 2024, titled: Corporate Advocacy in a Time of Social Outrage. The focus of this interview is that since business has become entangled with politics, how should companies navigate their social and political positions? Listeners are expected to have read the article before listening to this interview. Prof. Taylor, thank you for sparing the time. In your article, you propose, among other objectives, that, one, companies should build and maintain a cohesive organizational culture in a deeply polarized, broadly vocalized society. Two, leaders must develop norms and processes that enable them to respond to ethical concerns and political issues before they blow up. Three, the solution is to involve employees more effectively in determining corporate advocacy. What's the evidence that these objectives are achievable? Prof. Taylor. Prof. Taylor: What a wonderful first question. I don't think that any of these objectives are easy, and many of them may be counterintuitive. But I think the best evidence that we have that these are effective is looking at what companies have done so far

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