Too Hot to Ignore: Extreme Heat in Garment Supply Chains
Why Retrofitting Research Impact Does Not Work
Is it Possible to Grow Without Sacrificing Sustainability?
Risky Business: More Guidance Needed for Companies in Conflict Zones
Trust, Play, and Platforms: Sharing Lessons for Safer Digital Spaces
When Energy Crisis Meets Extreme Heat in Garment Supply Chains
Private Equity and Healthcare: Balancing Profit with Wellness
Digital Aftershocks: Online Mobilization and Violence in the United States
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Our Center at NYU Stern challenges and empowers companies and future business leaders to make practical progress on human rights.
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We explore ways to reduce harms associated with social media, artificial intelligence, online gaming, and 3D immersive platforms.
We encourage the financial sector to diversify its own ranks, while also reforming ESG practices to better assess corporate social performance and protect vulnerable stakeholders, especially workers in global supply chains.
We examine the impact of multinational companies on workers' rights in supply chains, outsourced manufacturing, and projects that rely on vulnerable migrant workers.
Through our research and teaching, development of teaching resources, and events for business scholars, we help prepare the next generation of leaders to address human rights responsibly.
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Too Hot to Ignore: Extreme Heat in Garment Supply Chains
Extreme heat is already disrupting garment factories across South and Southeast Asia, and in a new report drawing on field research across India, we find that most global brands have failed to act, pointing to a need for shared responsibility that treats climate adaptation as a core business obligation.
Trust, Play, and Platforms: Sharing Lessons for Safer Digital Spaces
Drawing on expert reflections from a September 2025 symposium, this paper examines how Trust & Safety governance in online gaming compares to social media and what the games industry’s unique experience with community-driven moderation can teach policymakers and advocates working across all digital spaces.
Private Equity and Healthcare: Balancing Profit with Wellness
Private equity’s $1 trillion push into healthcare has come at a cost, with evidence linking these deals to higher complications, reduced staffing, and increased mortality rates, pointing to a need for reform that prioritizes patient care over profit.
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