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Politics in Messaging Apps: Preliminary Results from a Multinational Survey
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Why Researchers Should ‘Translate’ Their Work for Business Practitioners
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The Supreme Court Protects Social Media Platforms’ Ability to Filter Out Harmful Content
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To Make the Tour de France a Principled Championship, Improve Factory Conditions for the People Who Build the Bikes
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Trump’s Debate Reference to ‘Black jobs’ Highlights Distortions but Also Persistent Disparities
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Knight Diversity of Asset Managers Research Series: Higher Education 2024
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Digital Risks to the 2024 Elections: Safeguarding Democracy in the Era of Disinformation
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Making ESG Real: A Return to Values-Driven Investing
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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.
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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.
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We examine the impact of multinational companies on workers' rights in supply chains, outsourced manufacturing, and projects that rely on vulnerable migrant workers.
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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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See allKnight Diversity of Asset Managers Research Series: Higher Education 2024
A new paper by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, Knight Foundation, and Global Economics Group examines how or if 50 of the wealthiest U.S. colleges and universities invest their endowment funds with diverse-owned asset management firms.
Digital Risks to the 2024 Elections: Safeguarding Democracy in the Era of Disinformation
A new report by Paul M. Barrett, Justin Hendrix and Cecely Richard-Carvajal highlights that this year’s primary tech-related threat to elections isn’t AI-generated content, but the spread of false, hateful, and violent content on social media platforms.
Making ESG Real: A Return to Values-Driven Investing
Our most recent report on ESG, written by Michael Goldhaber, explains the historical wrong turn taken by ESG investors and proposes ways to re-prioritize the protection of the environment and society.
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