Trust, Play, and Platforms: Sharing Lessons for Safer Digital Spaces
When Energy Crisis Meets Extreme Heat in Garment Supply Chains
Good Intentions, No Easy Solution: Why Income Diversification Needs a Gender Reckoning
What the RightsCon Cancellation Means for Digital Rights
Who Will Speak for Workers in the Age of AI?
Big Tech’s Data Center Assumptions Are Unraveling—At Home and Abroad
Vanguard Settles on ESG — BlackRock and State Street Fight On
Formalizing Artisanal Small-Scale Mining Can Address Forced Labor Risks
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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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.
Digital Aftershocks: Online Mobilization and Violence in the United States
Our new report draws on open-source intelligence to trace how extremist actors coordinate across online platforms to justify violence and recruit supporters, offering a framework for policy and platform response.
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