Fare il bene per lavoro: Per crescere serve coinvolgere tutti, questa è la lezione per le aziende del futuro
Non si possono fare solo compromessi: servono iniziative in grado di produrre cambiamento. Perché, come spiega Sarah Kaplan in “L’impresa a 360°” (Egea) la responsabilità sociale non è solo un ornamento bensì un obiettivo finale
Italian launch of L’impresa à 360º!
Egea Editore launches the Italian translation with a new preface by Gianmario Verona, Rector of Bocconi University. Le imprese oggi sono chiamate a rispondere alle richieste, crescenti e pressanti, di stakeholder diversi: i consumatori vogliono prodotti socialmente responsabili, i dipendenti chiedono lavori che diano loro un senso, gli investitori vagliano i criteri ambientali, sociali […]
The 360º Corporation featured in Corriere della Sera
Full page feature previewing the launch of L’Impresa à 360º. “Sostenibilità: Cambiare costa la responsabilità tra paradossi e compromessi.” See the feature here.
Tu mejor estrategia está en tu relato. Así es como puedes encontrar el éxito en tu pasado
Sarah Kaplan’s research on storytelling in strategy making is cited in Entrepreneur magazine (in Spanish).
What it means for businesses to ‘build back better’ after COVID-19
The health and economic crisis has prompted pro-employee changes at some companies. Sarah Kaplan argues in Fast Company that they should keep them and do even more.
Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Medicine: Lessons from Management
Sonia Kang and Sarah Kaplan write in Rotman Management Magazine about behavioral interventions to increase diversity and inclusion.
The upside of trade-offs
“strategy+business” features The 360˚ Corporation: about how leaders can turn stakeholder scrutiny to their advantage
The Most Important Tool to Tackle Gender Inequality
Myths about gender equality persist because the public and policymakers aren’t getting enough evidence, says Sarah Kaplan.
Fireside Chat: What does COVID-19 mean for Gender and the Economy?
Sarah Kaplan joined Next Gen Men’s Jake Stika, for a discussion on how this pandemic is gendered, impacting the economy, and the future of work.
“Not business as usual”
Sarah Kaplan’s work at GATE is featured in the Rotman Investors’ Report 2019
Claims on the Corporation: Directions for Stakeholder Research in the Field of Management—Beyond the Business Case for Social Responsibility
New piece for Academy of Management Discoveries.
Breaking down Ottawa’s new measures to help small businesses with COVID-19
Sarah Kaplan comments for The Logic that “If companies have to lay people off, this will delay the ability of firms to get back on their feet.”
Pandemic should force corporate boards to think beyond the bottom line
Peter Dey and Sarah Kaplan write that maybe this crisis is, when it comes to corporate governance, a blessing in disguise.
Steal these ideas: 34 things Canada’s innovators think the government should do to help the economy through the COVID-19 crisis
Sarah Kaplan advises The Logic that a top priority in the COVID crisis is wage subsidies to employers and for self-employed people.
It’s 2020 and the world is on fire — it’s time for business to propose radical climate change solutions
Sarah Kaplan writes for the Toronto Star that companies need to act more urgently to pursue social justice. Australia’s apocalyptic bush fires make the dystopian future of “Mad Max” look tame. The World Economic Forum recently reported that it will take another 100 years to achieve gender equality at the current pace of progress. Garbage […]
The latest business essential? Social Purpose
Sarah Kaplan is quoted in the Director Journal about what it means for companies to pursue “purpose.” Companies will face their own learning curves through the transition. For example, some may need to develop funding models that take into account a growing number of stakeholders, says Sarah Kaplan, a professor of strategic management and distinguished […]
Rotman Podcast: Faculty Insights with Prof. Sarah Kaplan
Listen to learn about meritocracy, gender biases and the urgency for change. The Rotman Podcast celebrated International Women’s Day with Prof. Sarah Kaplan, professor of Strategic Management and Director of Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) at Rotman. In this episode, Sarah addresses long-standing gender biases, her views on meritocracy and the need to […]
Less than half of Canada’s VCs track gender makeup of their portfolios
Sarah Kaplan is quoted in The Logic about the barriers that women entrepreneurs face.
Mansplaining: explicar lo que las mujeres hacen y cómo eso daña la carrera de científicas
Sarah Kaplan is quoted in La Tercera on how “mansplaining” can damage the careers of researchers.
CBC International Women’s Day Celebration
Sarah Kaplan’s keynote for this IWD2020 event was: “Making real progress on gender equality” About the event: This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #EachForEqual, and two CBC Employee Resource Groups, Women in Tech and Visible Women, have come together to organize, celebrate and advocate for and spread awareness about creating equality in the workspace […]
The myth of meritocracy
Sarah Kaplan offers an unvarnished discussion of gender equality in a UofT in the Neighborhood event.
Gender Inequality Goes Far Beyond Our Brains
Our cognitive biases play a role in ongoing inequality, but it’s also woven into our systems in ways we’re still disentangling. In this video from Research2Reality, Sarah Kaplan talks about why it is important to innovate to achieve gender equality. From the Research2Reality webpage: “Sarah Kaplan was raised in the ’70s and ’80s, at the height […]
End Growth, Save the Planet?
Sarah Kaplan appears on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin to talk about the environmental risks of economic expansion. From TVO: “What are the consequences of endless economic expansion? To discuss the potential risks, we welcome Chris Ragan, director of McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy; Celine Bak, president of Analytica Advisors; Atif […]
The 360º Corporation is a finalist in Association of American Publishers PROSE book awards for scholarly excellence!
The annual PROSE Awards recognize books of extraordinary merit that make a significant contribution to a field of study each year
Why the ‘business case’ for diversity isn’t working
Sarah Kaplan writes for Fast Company that the business case leads only to incremental, not transformational change
Minister Karina Gould wants proxy votes for politicians on parental leave
Sarah Kaplan speaks to the CBC on parental leave and the need for job redesign.
A push to let politicians on parental leave vote by proxy
Sarah Kaplan visits CBC’s The Current to talk about parental leave for politicians (start at 41:00).
¿Pueden las empresas como Airbnb cambiar tal como prometen hacerlo?
“Hay un aspecto de mucho interés propio en lo que están haciendo” dice Sarah Kaplan en BBC Mundo.
Has Airbnb grown a conscience?
Sarah Kaplan talks to the BBC about “stakeholder capitalism” and the need for metrics.
Starbucks aims to become resource-positive company with expanded plant-based options, reusable packaging
Sarah Kaplan tells the Toronto Star, It’s more serious if Starbucks commits to changing the economics of that proposition “in a really substantial way for consumers”
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World’s biggest money manager sees profit potential in climate change action
Sarah Kaplan speaks on the CBC Front Burner podcast about corporate social responsibility.
Creating A Purpose-Driven Corporation
In Forbes: The 360º Corporation is “a more realistic road map for creating the corporation of the future.”
The immortal – and false – myth of the workplace Queen Bee
Isabel Fernandez-Mateo and Sarah Kaplan debunk the myth of the “Queen Bee” in The Conversation.
Sarah Kaplan on a new report by the World Economic Forum on the gender gap on CBC’s Fresh Air
According to the World Economic Forum, we may not see gender equality in our lifetimes. When then? A shocking estimate from the report says it will be in the next century. We’ll talk about the findings with Sarah Kaplan, Director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy in Ontario
Work–Life Balance as a Household Negotiation: A New Perspective from Rural India
By Rachael Goodman and Sarah Kaplan Bringing more women into the formal workforce is an important component of corporate strategies, development efforts, and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, these policies often do not consider the household work that women already do to support the survival of their families, making work-for-wages impossible or creating […]
Are Canadian investors embracing the end of shareholder primacy?
In the Globe and Mail: “As Kaplan highlights, Canadian companies are using [the 1994 Dey report] as an excuse to slow walk the advancement of their sustainability initiatives compared to their U.S. counterparts…”
Sarah Kaplan Google Scholar citations
Check out citations to all of my research on Google Scholar.
Video discussions about publishing qualitative research with Huising and Bechky
Publishing qualitative research. Videos of me, Beth Bechky, and Ruthanne Huising from 2nd Montreal-Ontario Qualitative Methods Workshop, May 11-12, 2015 HEC Montréal.
Podcast: Sarah Kaplan talks about Joan Woodward’s contribution to contingency theory
This podcast is a recording of a PDW at AOM 2019 on contingency theory.
Da Adriano Olivetti ai nuovi studi sulla cittadinanza d’impresa: la sostenibilità è un business a 360°
The 360º Corporation is featured in a Corriere della Sera article on sustainability (Italian).
The limits of quantitative analysis
Kaplan’s work is cited in the Manila Bulletin: “conflicting goals often serve as an opportunity for business executives to be more creative in devising strategies to minimize the conflicts.”
Financial Times reviews The 360º Corporation!
Addressing these paradoxes is at the heart of Kaplan’s book, a guide that aims to topple economist Milton Friedman’s dictum that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits”.
4 mistakes companies make in corporate social responsibility
This video clip from the Toronto book launch of The 360º Corporation highlights the solutions for companies seeking to become more socially responsible. Not knowing how business models create trade-offs Organizations are not having enough conversations about their stakeholder trade-offs. For example, do delivery companies recognize the increased pollution and poor labour conditions that come […]
Institute for Gender And The Economy (GATE)
Sarah Kaplan is Director of GATE. Our motto: using rigorous research to change the conversation on gender equality. More here.
Michael Cherny is changing the face of corporate Canada: When Deloitte’s chief of staff came out as trans, he became a beacon of diversity on buttoned-down Bay Street
Kaplan says to Pivot Magazine that companies are not yet doing all of the work needed to include people of all genders.
SiriusXM interview on The 360° Corporation: Using Trade-Offs as a Source of Innovation
In this interview, Kaplan says, “The first mistake that companies make is not knowing what their trade-offs are.”
Sarah Kaplan presents to Ivey Business School about The 360° Corporation
Kaplan’s talk focused on the role businesses have played in creating global problems and the necessity and opportunity they now have to help fix them.
Book review: The 360° Corporation by Sarah Kaplan
The Financial Times reviews The 360º Corporation: All business involves trade-offs — the key is how to innovate and thrive around them
Women going freelance face bigger gender pay gap
Sarah Kaplan tells the Financial Times that “Because [gig] jobs lack many legal, social and financial protections, they are not benefiting women”.
Canada needs more childcare support to help close the gender wage gap
Sarah Kaplan talks to BNN Bloomberg about solutions to the gender wage gap.
Balancing the interests of all stakeholders in your corporation
In her recent essay on shareholder primacy (The Globe and Mail), Sarah Kaplan asks a timely question: “Where does Canada stand?” It warrants some thought.
Porchlight Books highlights The 360º Corporation as an “Editor’s Choice”!
Sarah Kaplan explains why social responsibility, rather than being an add-on or ancillary consideration, must be baked into the business model.
A Better Way to Be Better
Interviewed by Liisbeth, Kaplan argues that the business case for social responsibility justifies the status quo. It leads to complacency as opposed to outrage.
Would You Use a Women-Centric Financial Service?
Sarah Kaplan tells Greedy Rates “Our current system of savings, retirement, and investments, and the way banks treat women who are investors – it’s not a gender-neutral system.”
How good deeds can boost your company’s stock price
Sarah Kaplan is quoted in The Globe and Mail saying that expecting corporate CSR to justify itself financially is asking the wrong question. “That will only take you so far.”
Podcast: Sarah Kaplan interviewed on “Run it Like a Girl”
In this podcast episode, Sarah Kaplan talk about new perspectives on achieving gender equality.
The limits of the pursuit of profit
The Financial Times consults Sarah Kaplan on how companies in search of greater purpose can innovate around trade-offs.
Book launch event in Toronto!
Full house on Sept. 26 for a launch event and reception for The 360º Corporation. “We have a lot of crises – gender equality crises, climate crises – that we are all facing. And we need to have a better way to have a conversation about these issues inside organizations. That’s what this book is […]
TVO’s The Agenda: The end of shareholder primacy
Sarah Kaplan participates in a panel discussion on The Agenda about the US Business Roundtable announcement repudiating the primacy of the shareholder and what it means for Canada. Last month, some of America’s top business people released a statement saying, among other things: “CEOs work to generate profits and return value to shareholders, but the […]
TVO’s The Agenda: A holistic view of corporations
Sarah Kaplan appears on The Agenda to discuss The 360º Corporation and the transformational possibilities of engaging with all stakeholders. Corporations are critical players in Canada’s economy – they create the wealth, jobs, goods, and services we all need. And increasingly that’s prompted people to see them as more than commercial enterprises, but as key […]
The Business Roundtable has repudiated shareholder primacy; where does Canada stand?
Sarah Kaplan writes for The Globe and Mail that corporate Canada may be slipping behind on social responsibility. This is a reprint of the Globe and Mail editorial on September 16, 2019. The full version is viewable here. Recently, the Business Roundtable – a lobbying group made up of the chief executives of more than […]
Press release on The 360º Corporation
New Book Provides a Roadmap For Companies to Address Demands from Multiple Stakeholders.
The 360° Corporation will give leaders the confidence to start and follow through with a transformative change
Rotman School features “The 360º Corporation”: stakeholder trade-offs as creating the potential for transformation.
How corporations are stepping up to tackle crises when governments won’t
Sarah Kaplan writes for The Conversation that corporations can be part of the system of checks and balances for social good.
Capitalism under pressure: Why CEOs rethink corporate purpose
The Christian Science Monitor consults Sarah Kaplan on how CEOs who recently embraced a “stakeholder” business model are following a wider movement.
Women with PhDs earn as much as their male counterparts, but gap remains in other areas
Sarah Kaplan says in The Star, having children can result in “job segregation,” a much bigger culprit for pay inequity than unequal paycheques for equivalent work.
Are companies right to abandon the shareholder-first mantra?
Sarah Kaplan is invited by the Financial Times to explain why the Business Roundtable announcement is a good first step for change. Are companies right to abandon the shareholder-first mantra? Yes — Balancing interests will spur companies to be more innovative The Business Roundtable, an association of leading US chief executives, last week announced plans […]
Strategies for a revolution in careers for women
Kaplan warns in the Financial Times that implicit bias training may be “well-intentioned but can be counter-productive if not backed by deeper changes.”
Review in SSIR: How Corporations Can Balance Demands From Shareholders and Consumers
Stanford Social Innovation Review notes: The 360° Corporation is [a] comprehensive guide for managers, CEOs, and corporate leaders to learn how to negotiate the interests of shareholders and other stakeholders—from workers and consumers to government regulators and civic groups—that corporations must serve today. Reconciling these different conflicting interests, Kaplan maintains, is the “crucial task for […]
Designing an innovation process for organizations
Sarah Kaplan is interviewed by Forbes: you need that space to come up with the right questions before you apply all of your energies to answering them.
Mansplaining: New solutions to a tiresome old problem
In The Conversation (and Fast Company), Kaplan looks to organizational solutions to a dynamic that silences women’s views and blocks their advancement. “Note, as Solnit does, that “mansplaining is not a universal flaw of the male gender, just the intersection between overconfidence and cluelessness where some portion of that gender gets stuck.” But the mansplaining […]
Taking stakeholders, rather than Milton Friedman, seriously: Beyond “shared value” approaches for corporate social responsibility
My Stanford Press blog post on The 360º Corporation. “For decades, we have mythologized Milton Friedman’s 1970 dictate that corporations have a primary responsibility to deliver financial returns to their shareholders. But, the winds are shifting. Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman is calling for “heroic chief executive officers” to achieve sustainable development goals such as […]
The gender pay gap: How Canada can lead at the G7
In this Globe and Mail op ed, Sarah Kaplan and pay equity commissioner Emanuela Heyninck show how Canada can play a global role in pay equity.
When Care Work and Paid Work Collide
While people in the Western world often assume that extended families in developing countries are oppressive to women who marry into them, family support can actually enable women to take on paying jobs outside the home.
Why the ‘business case’ for hiring more women isn’t working
Sarah Kaplan and Nancy Wilson write for the Globe and Mail that the “business case” won’t motivate transformation.
Beyond Policy: How Gendered Interactions on the Ground Shape Development
Viewing social and economic development as a series of interpersonal interactions can help us understand why development outcomes sometimes diverge from policy goals, and how gendered interactions shape social and economic development.
A brief process for more enlightened brainstorming
Sarah Kaplan writes for Quartz: Everybody wants to generate breakthrough ideas. Few people know how to do it.
Reconsidering Gender Diversity in Economic Development
Building truly inclusive economies requires that leaders broaden their understanding of gender and the many different ways gender identity can affect inclusion.
Holding Up the Sky: Achieving Women’s Empowerment Requires Working with Women and Men
Involving men in women’s economic development projects can lead to higher impact for women and changes in gender norms.
The Mantra of Meritocracy
Our ongoing obsession with the myth of meritocracy is now spreading to education systems in developing economies with pernicious effects.
What’s Right with Kansas
Sarah Kaplan reviews No Place Like Home: Lessons from Activism in LGBT Kansas by C. J. Janovy which offers up progressive lessons from a red state.
Learning Doesn’t Mean a Livelihood
Though girls may be actively encouraged to get educated, family responsibilities and cultural expectations can hold them back from the working world.
Overtime & Underpaid
Laudable efforts to harness the economic potential of women are being hampered: There are only so many hours in the day, and women are already busy tending to their homes and communities. For NGOs, it’s time their programs and efforts become more accessible to group they propose to serve.
Listen to Local Women
While many NGOs strive to provide women with economic empowerment, women themselves find more value in gaining social networks and building confidence.
The 360 Corporation is on the BizEd July-August Bookshelf!
“Today’s corporations must consider the stakeholders that surround them from all sides, writes the University of Toronto’s Sarah Kaplan—and to serve them, companies will need to follow one of four modes of operation. In Mode 1, corporations realize that every business model involves tradeoffs; for instance, just-in-time delivery creates efficiencies but might increase pollution and […]
Zen And The Art Of Small Town Revitalization
Forbes discusses the value of creating a 360 Corporation for rural economic development.
Business school: Blockchain; AI’s role in job search; harrasment
Kaplan tells the Financial Times, “What if we thought of diversity as an innovation problem — making this challenge as exciting as other innovation challenges?”
Companies using technology to close the gender gap, but experts warn of pitfalls
Kaplan tells BNN Bloomberg that AI “bots might actually be amplifying bias” in HR processes.
Explaining the effect of ‘mansplaining’ in the work place
Kaplan tells CBC radio that mansplaining is a big problem in workplaces. She shares some solutions that companies and organizations could adopt if they want women feel valued.
Podcast “The Coup” on “Marketing Masculinity”
Sarah Kaplan discusses how corporate brands and their PR machines continue to transform the way we see, think about, and perform masculinity.
Moving Beyond The Business Case For Queer And Trans Inclusion
Sarah Kaplan’s work on moving beyond the business case for inclusion is discussed in IN magazine. “In Kaplan’s symposium keynote, she referenced her article in Rotman Management Magazine titled “Because it’s 2017: Gender Equality as an Innovation Challenge,” which reminds everyone of what systems are currently at play. She writes in the article: “We are […]
Briefing: Early Childhood Education and Care
Sarah Kaplan and colleagues outline a creative new plan for increasing childcare availability.
Inequality as an innovation challenge: preview of The 360º Corporation
Speaking at Rotman Management Magazine’s “Short Talks: Art of Change” event in May 2019, Sarah Kaplan discusses her latest book, The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation, and how businesses can approach inequality as an innovation challenge.
Rebooting the gender equality conversation
At the Government of Canada’s Women and the Workplace Symposium, Sarah Kaplan busts five myths regarding women in the workplace and outlines actions organizations and governments can take to achieve progress towards gender equality. The Symposium which brought together leaders and champions of workplace diversity from across Canada to share tools and best practices employers […]
Apple’s Trillion-Dollar World
Sarah Kaplan comments for Bloomberg BusinessWeek on the swing of public sentiment against Big Tech over the past year which is sure to intensify this scrutiny.
Inclusion key to creating safe LGBTQ work space
Sarah Kaplan writes with colleague Geoff Leonardelli for The Star that diversity is not the same as inclusion when it comes to making workplaces safe for the LGBTQ+ community.
Gender pricing means women paying more than men
Sarah Kaplan speaks with The Star about the “pink tax” or gender-based pricing: it means women end up paying thousands of dollars more for goods and services than men — from deodorant to cologne to haircuts to dry cleaning
Sarah Kaplan appears before Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce
Bill C-25 includes a “comply or explain” provision to improve diversity on corporate boards. On December 6, 2017, Sarah Kaplan was invited to be a witness to the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce.
Lady Doritos are a marketing test, not a mistake, say Canadian food experts
Sarah Kaplan comments for the Financial Post on what companies are doing to market to women who make up 50% of the population and 80% of the buying power.