Realigning Business and Society

Growing inequality, the rise of populism, and the most recent spate of corporate scandals have contributed to renewed questioning of the sustainability of a corporate form that is structured to maximize shareholder value. This is an opportune time to explore the potential market strength of alternative corporate structures that can combat inequality and promote respect for human rights.

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Rights CoLab contributions

Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights – Part 4: At the Center
By Shauna Curphey • December 13, 2022

Centering Worker Rights: Insights from the Fair Food Program
By Antonella Angelini, Shauna Curphey • November 9, 2022

Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights – Part 3: Inclusion
By Shauna Curphey • November 2, 2022

Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights – Part 2: The Data
By Shauna Curphey • October 19, 2022

The Overlooked Advantages of the Independent Monitoring and Complaint Investigation System in the Worker-driven Social Responsibility Model in US Agriculture
By Shauna Curphey, Antonella Angelini • October 12, 2022

Where is the Discussion of Corporate Capture in the Working Group’s Thematic Report on Corporate Capture?
By Katherine McDonnell • September 30, 2022

Rights Holder Voices at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
By Shauna Curphey • September 27, 2022

Just Ground Joins Rights CoLab to Advance Rights Holder-Led Access to Remedy in Business and Human Rights
By Just Ground • September 15, 2022

What the US Government Can Do to Promote Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence
By Joanne Bauer • September 1, 2022

Contribution to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights’ Consultation on “Corporate Influence in the Political and Regulatory Sphere”
By Just Ground • May 29, 2022

Bringing Teeth to Mandatory Business and Human Rights Rules: A Conversation with Rachel Chambers and Anil Yilmaz Vastardis
By Joanne Bauer • August 12, 2021

Strengthening New Investor Just Transition Tool Would Be a Gamechanger
By Joanne Bauer, Marti Flacks, Paul Rissman • March 11, 2021

Evidence of Corporate Risk from Harms to Workers in their Value Chains
By Rights CoLab • January 7, 2021

Our Data Science Approach for Improved SASB Standards
By Paul Rissman, Joanne Bauer • September 4, 2020

How Can Investors Improve Social License? Listen to Human Rights Defenders
By Joanne Bauer • July 22, 2020

Social Audits Fall Short on Gender Equality
By Joanne Bauer and Jenise Ogle • July 8, 2020

Seeing Business and Human Rights as a Web of Corporate Accountability
By Joanne Bauer • March 5, 2020

In America’s Boardrooms, the Shareholder Morphs from Protector to Threat
By Paul Rissman • December 18, 2019

Holding Big Tech to Account
By Deborah Doane • June 10, 2019

New Strategies Help Investors Hold Corporations Accountable on Human Rights
By Gabe Rissman • May 16, 2019

Corporate Structure and Human Rights – a report from the Croatan Forum
By Joanne Bauer • January 17, 2019

Can Benefit Corporations Fix What’s Wrong with Business and Human Rights?
By Joanne Bauer, Elizabeth Umlas • January 5, 2019

Promoting Sustainable Business Practices to Protect Human Rights in Africa
By Charles Kojo Vandyck • May 16, 2018

Has Their Time Come? A Tale of Two Corporate Responsibility Movements
By Joanne Bauer, Elizabeth Umlas • February 2, 2018

Making Corporations Responsible: The Parallel Tracks of the B Corp Movement and the Business and Human Rights Movement
By Joanne Bauer, Elizabeth Umlas • September 4, 2017

Roundtable on Business Structures that Prioritize Human Rights: Discussion Summary
By Joanne Bauer • June 1, 2016