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Alison Taylor

@followalisont.bsky.social
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I teach @NYUStern, lots of other hats, even more opinions. Author of Higher Ground, published by Harvard Business Review Press, 2024.

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ClimateVoice @climatevoice.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We were honored to have our very own Deborah McNamara recently interviewed by Alison Taylor on how activism is evolving and moving forward, despite trends of corporate greenhushing and silence. @debmcnamara.bsky.social @followalisont.bsky.social
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ClimateVoice: A Conversation with Deb McNamara on how activism is evolving
Climate Voice shows us how and why all employees can take action on climate change
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Chris Houston @chrishouston.ca · 17/01/2026
"Corporations on ICE in Minneapolis: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good" - a good read on how corporations are responding to authoritarianism by @followalisont.bsky.social findhigherground.substack.com/p/corporatio...
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Corporations on ICE in Minneapolis: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good
What do events this week in Minneapolis tell us about the state of play in corporate ethics and advocacy?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/07/2025
well, you do if there's a fucking wolf
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I wrote a new thing with a hero of mine! www.fastcompany.com/91345159/how...
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Honestly why are you as a billionaire using the $20 mass affluent Whole Foods olive oil at all? You should have a grove of 300 year old heritage olive trees in Tuscany pressed exclusively by your twink slaves’ feet at that point.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“We all saw what happened to Target.”
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Everybody has already said but this really is a remarkable ruling. Reagan appointee basically begging the Trump admin to step back from the ledge.
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Delighted to be quoted here today
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Seen in Pittsburgh
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/04/2025
Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering theonion.com/trump-c...
Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Take that, nerd! We don't want to fund your woke Marxist research on "relieving stress and anxiety in adolescents." Children are the future and the future should feel bad.
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After 25 years, NIH funding ends for child educator at Duquesne University
‘It’s bigger than the science.’
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Unusually nuanced and thoughtful on the current state of corporate climate action, with many thoughts from me www.thetimes.com/article/eac1...
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The rise of greenhushing: embrace ESG, but don’t talk about it
Amid the Donald Trump-fuelled backlash against ESG, corporations don’t like to shout about net zero. But on the quiet, they are taking it very seriously
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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Last was "Higher Ground" by @followalisont.bsky.social (👋), who merges academic research w/real world expertise to create an extremely useful and timely book that everyone in management and corporate governance needs to read. Highly recommend Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (5/5)
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Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World ^ 10558
Buy books, tools, case studies, and articles on leadership, strategy, innovation, and other business and management topics
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Felix Salmon @felixsalmon.com · 06/03/2025
“Bezos has now created a situation in which essentially everything published on the opinion pages of the Post will be seen as broadly representative of his personal views. I can’t imagine why any proprietor would want to leave that impression. Did Bezos really think this through?”
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
What a front cover...
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/02/2025
Also wrote about Jeff Bezos' nonsense with the WaPo's Opinion section, and just how fundamentally stupid it is. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/j...
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Jeff Bezos Frees WaPo Opinion Pages Of The Personal Liberty Of Expressing Their Opinion
Look, when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post a decade ago, people worried that a billionaire owner might interfere with the paper’s editorial independence. For years, those fears seemed o…
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Rich Stazinski @rstazinski.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
👉 "In the 2010s, there was a sense that #SiliconValley was different, it had a rarefied culture. Now you’re just like any other union-busting top-down conglomerate." @followalisont.bsky.social @nyusterncbhr.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6bad...
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Tech titans stand with Donald Trump to kill off activism in Silicon Valley
Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Some days I'm still proud to be British
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🦋 Shadow Dancer 🇨🇦 🌊💙🏳️‍🌈🎶🌈 @shadowdancer73.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Love this from Denmark
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
“In the 2010s, there was a sense that Silicon Valley was different, it had a rarefied culture,” said Alison Taylor, a clinical associate professor at NYU. “Now you’re just like any other union-busting top-down conglomerate.” www.ft.com/content/6bad...
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Tech titans stand with Donald Trump to kill off activism in Silicon Valley
Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"What we are seeing under way is not so much the death of diversity, but the decisive collapse of the myth that your career can mirror your values, or that your job might love you back". www.thebanker.com/content/1800...
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How Wall Street wound up the last bastion of support for diversity
Personal sacrifices and work ethic are far more fundamental drivers of banking culture than diversity goals
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Ryan D. Williamson @ryandane.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If only we had a word for a shape with three sides.
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Thorby Corvin @thorbycorvin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Corporate values often seem like a PR stunt — X supports the troops, Y wants to end racism — based on where companies calculate the "right" answer is at any given moment. What's "right" often means "whatever will generate the most cash for shareholders" www.aol.com/americas-big...
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America's biggest companies are waging a stealth campaign to dismantle DEI
Companies like Disney, General Motors, and Pepsico are quietly backing away from diversity initiatives and language.
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
To celebrate my @porchlight.bsky.social business book award, they’ve published a new extract from Higher Ground! www.porchlightbooks.com/blog/news-op...
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Higher Ground | An Excerpt from the 2024 Porchlight Leadership and Strategy Book of the Year
Porchlight's 2024 Leadership and Strategy Book of the Year is Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World by Alison Taylor, published by Harvard Business Review Press.
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
To celebrate my @porchlight.bsky.social business book award, they’ve published a new extract from Higher Ground! www.porchlightbooks.com/blog/news-op...
porchlightbooks.com
Higher Ground | An Excerpt from the 2024 Porchlight Leadership and Strategy Book of the Year
Porchlight's 2024 Leadership and Strategy Book of the Year is Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World by Alison Taylor, published by Harvard Business Review Press.
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
An entirely plausible vision of the future www.ft.com/content/4e3f...
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The real threat to American prosperity
Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on trade wars, tech industry hubris — and how loss of faith in US institutions could spiral
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/02/2025
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Meritocracy in action 🤔 techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/a...
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a16z hires acquitted former Marine Daniel Penny as an investor  | TechCrunch
Powerhouse venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired Daniel Penny as an investor, its web page confirms.  Penny is the former Marine who was tried
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Over under on Trump implementing tariffs and blaming the resulting inflation on Biden and / DEI?
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 31/01/2025
@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“What he’s saying is you’ve had a giant failure, you’ve also had a diversity program, therefore the diversity program’s the cause of the failure,” said Alison Taylor. “And we all know that that is not true.” God this is pissing me off. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/from-air...
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From Air Crash to Inflation, DEI Is Trump’s Latest Bogeyman
President Donald Trump and his senior staff have relied on a common MAGA rebuke for the reasons behind the fires in LA, inflation in the US, and now the deadly plane crash in Washington: diversity, eq...
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“What he’s saying is you’ve had a giant failure, you’ve also had a diversity program, therefore the diversity program’s the cause of the failure,” said Alison Taylor. “And we all know that that is not true.” God this is pissing me off. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/from-air...
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From Air Crash to Inflation, DEI Is Trump’s Latest Bogeyman
President Donald Trump and his senior staff have relied on a common MAGA rebuke for the reasons behind the fires in LA, inflation in the US, and now the deadly plane crash in Washington: diversity, eq...
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
My book won an award last night! www.porchlightbooks.com/awards/busin...
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Imagine having this much money and being this sad and pathetic
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Are you in New York on 4 February? Join us! Please register here: lnkd.in/ejHF72Vy
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Alison Taylor @followalisont.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The Davos vibe shift is literally just about vibes The woke phase was always marketing led and shallow as a puddle @bethkowitt.bsky.social explains www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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The Davos ‘Vibe Shift’ Is No Surprise
It was once fashionable for CEOs to use the Swiss confab to talk about the importance of issues like climate change and DEI. No longer.
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