BRITE ’24 SPEAKERS: ALISON TAYLOR

ALISON TAYLOR

Clinical professor, NYU Stern School of Business
Executive Director, Ethical Systems

Alison Taylor is a clinical professor at NYU Stern School of Business and the Executive Director at Ethical Systems, a research collaboration of prominent business school professors working on ethical culture founded by prominent social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. She has spent decades advising large multinationals on risk, corruption, sustainability, and organizational culture. She grew up in London and studied at Balliol College Oxford, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University.

She is the author of Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World (2024) which tackles the contradictory issues of what the public expects of corporations head-on. Her interviews with two hundred executives, activists, and academics around the world illustrate just how complicated issues of sustainability and corporate responsibility have become.