feature articles — Sarah Kaplan

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How to achieve the promise of corporate purpose

October 10, 2024

Sarah Kaplan writes for Forbes that increasingly, innovation is being recognized as central to the pursuit of purpose...

How Comply-or-Explain Disclosure Regulation Can Improve Corporate Governance and Gender Equality

Blogs and op-eds

October 9, 2024

Sarah Kaplan and co-authors write for the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog about how to make comply-or-explain...

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How many LGBTQ+ corporate directors does Canada have? We investigated

Blogs and op-eds

June 17, 2024

Sarah Kaplan and Jane Griffith discuss in the Globe and Mail their study showing the lack of LGBTQ+ board directors...

‘Flipping the Script’ to Harness Gender Diversity

Blogs and op-eds

March 26, 2024

Sarah Kaplan speaks with the team at Harvard Business School about using diversity to design better products, services...

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Accelerating progress towards gender equity in health and science

Blogs and op-eds

March 6, 2024

Sarah Kaplan and coauthors discuss how to address barriers to gender equity: access to resources, sponsorship and...

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How to achieve the promise of corporate purpose

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

January 21, 2024

Sarah Kaplan writes for Rotman Management Magazine that pursuing corporate purpose can’t just be in the words but...

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A call for 365 days of action against gender-based violence

Blogs and op-eds

January 18, 2024

Sarah Kaplan and Beverley Essue write for Healthy Debate that attention to addressing and preventing GBV should be 365...

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AI bias must move to accountability to address inequity

Blogs and op-eds

October 7, 2023

Sarah Kaplan writes with Carmina Ravanera in Policy Options that policies should require AI to assess equity impacts...

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Remote Work and Inequality: Lessons for Leaders

Blogs and op-eds

September 23, 2023

Carmina Ravanera, Kim de Laat and Sarah Kaplan write for Rotman Management Magazine on inequality and remote work....

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5 myths about Gender Analytics

Blogs and op-eds

February 13, 2023

Sarah Kaplan & Lechin Lu are interviewed about Gender Analytics as a tool for product, service and policy...

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Make remote work a plus instead of a penalty for gender equality

Blogs and op-eds

January 23, 2023

Sarah Kaplan writes with Kim deLaat and Carmina Ravanera on flexible work for Policy Options....

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When it comes to inequality, remote work is a double-edged sword — especially for women

Blogs and op-eds

November 28, 2022

Sarah Kaplan and coauthors discuss the future of work in the Toronto Star....

The Future of Work: Will Remote Work Help or Hinder the Pursuit of Equality?

Blogs and op-eds

November 20, 2022

Sarah Kaplan and coauthors publish new report on the future of work and flexible/remote work....

Taking care of the care workers

Blogs and op-eds

June 3, 2022

Sarah Kaplan writes in Policy Options with co-authors on how the work of caring for our children, older adults and...

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Care Work in the Recovery Economy: Towards a Caring Economy

Blogs and op-eds

May 11, 2022

Sarah Kaplan co-authors major new report on the caring economy and its central role in recovery from COVID-19....

The Institute for Gender and the Economy: How Narrowing the Wage Gap Benefits Everyone

Blogs and op-eds

April 20, 2022

Sarah Kaplan and her work at GATE are featured by Badcredit.org...

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The best books about stakeholder capitalism

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

March 28, 2022

Sarah Kaplan describes for Shepherd 5 great books about stakeholder capitalism that you should read....

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An Equity Lens on Artificial Intelligence

Blogs and op-eds

January 11, 2022

Sarah Kaplan co-authors report on assuring artificial intelligence doesn’t create or reify discrimination....

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An Equity Lens on Artificial Intelligence

Blogs and op-eds

January 10, 2022

Carmina Ravanera and Sarah Kaplan write about why it is important to take an equity lens on this increasingly...

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360º Governance: Leadership Guidelines for a World in Crisis

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

September 3, 2021

Sarah Kaplan and Peter Dey write in the Rotman Management Magazine about governance in the 21st century....

The purpose of a corporation is not simply to make money

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

August 16, 2021

Sarah Kaplan and Peter Dey write for the Globe and Mail that Corporate boards cannot afford to be laggards in a...

Teaching Complex Management Challenges

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

April 1, 2021

Sarah Kaplan is interviewed about her Aspen award-winning course, The 360º Corporation....

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Who cares about childcare?

Blogs and op-eds

March 8, 2021

Kate Bezanson and Sarah Kaplan write in The Hill Times that investing in childcare will pay substantial social and...

Where are the directors in a world in crisis?

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

February 22, 2021

Peter Dey and Sarah Kaplan write for the Globe and Mail about the new competencies required for boards of directors in...

What’s at stake when women leave the workforce during COVID-19?

Blogs and op-eds

February 10, 2021

Sarah Kaplan is interviewed by TVO on the impact on the power gap of COVID-related career interruptions....

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How to Build Back Better: A Conversation

Blogs and op-eds

January 2, 2021

Sarah Kaplan spoke with Soo Min Toh and Ken Corts in Rotman Management Magazine about creating a more inclusive economy...

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How the caring economy can revive us

Blogs and op-eds

December 7, 2020

Sarah Kaplan writes for the cover story in Corporate Knights about why we can’t recover without a thriving care...

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Sometimes, They Just Can’t Handle the Truth

Blogs and op-eds

December 1, 2020

Research2Reality interviews Sarah Kaplan: This researcher knows, in the pursuit of gender equality, there are rarely...

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Financial recovery goes hand in hand with social responsibility

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

November 6, 2020

Sarah Kaplan and Rod Lohin write for The Toronto Star about how company health is not just financial....

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Two Ways to Stand Against Racism and Sexism at Work

Blogs and op-eds

September 29, 2020

Laura Morgan Roberts and Sarah Kaplan write for Bloomberg Opinion that real allyship doesn’t come cheap. It is...

Canada’s economic stability hinges on an equitable recovery for women

Blogs and op-eds

September 23, 2020

In Policy Options, Sarah Kaplan and Carmina Ravanera discuss how racialized women have been hurt by the pandemic, and...

How To ‘Build Back Better’ after COVID-19

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

September 2, 2020

Sarah Kaplan explains how, in the midst of the pandemic, companies need to redesign, reorient, and realign....

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Why Social Responsibility Produces More Resilient Organizations

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

August 28, 2020

Sarah Kaplan writes for Sloan Management Review that companies have more staying power when management decisions...

Are we letting this crisis go to waste?

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

August 18, 2020

In this editorial in The Hill Times, Sarah Kaplan writes that we can use this crisis to create our own rebirth. This...

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Deck Chairs On The Titanic: The Impoverished B-School Response To A Changing World

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

July 28, 2020

Sarah Kaplan writes for Poets & Quants that business schools are not adapting to new social realities. Our society...

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Care services are the key to pandemic recovery for women

Blogs and op-eds

July 27, 2020

Sarah Kaplan writes with Maya Roy that without support for care services, a slowed economic recovery is inevitable....

A conversation with Sarah Kaplan on COVID’s greater impact on women — and how we can rebuild equitably

Blogs and op-eds, News

July 13, 2020

Sarah Kaplan spoke with the 30% Club and Women of Influence about building back better from COVID....

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Where is the “T” in LGBTQ+ inclusion?

Blogs and op-eds

June 15, 2020

Sarah Kaplan and Jade Pichette of Pride at Work write about the journey towards inclusion for transgender people in the...

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What it means for businesses to ‘build back better’ after COVID-19

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

May 15, 2020

The health and economic crisis has prompted pro-employee changes at some companies. Sarah Kaplan argues in Fast Company...

Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Medicine: Lessons from Management

Blogs and op-eds

May 6, 2020

Sonia Kang and Sarah Kaplan write in Rotman Management Magazine about behavioral interventions to increase diversity...

The upside of trade-offs

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

May 1, 2020

“strategy+business” features The 360˚ Corporation: about how leaders can turn stakeholder scrutiny to...

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Pandemic should force corporate boards to think beyond the bottom line

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

March 26, 2020

Peter Dey and Sarah Kaplan write that maybe this crisis is, when it comes to corporate governance, a blessing in...

It’s 2020 and the world is on fire — it’s time for business to propose radical climate change solutions

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

March 15, 2020

Sarah Kaplan writes for the Toronto Star that companies need to act more urgently to pursue social justice....

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Why the ‘business case’ for diversity isn’t working

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

February 12, 2020

Sarah Kaplan writes for Fast Company that the business case leads only to incremental, not transformational change...

The immortal – and false – myth of the workplace Queen Bee

Blogs and op-eds

January 10, 2020

Isabel Fernandez-Mateo and Sarah Kaplan debunk the myth of the “Queen Bee” in The Conversation....

The Business Roundtable has repudiated shareholder primacy; where does Canada stand?

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

September 16, 2019

Sarah Kaplan writes for The Globe and Mail that corporate Canada may be slipping behind on social responsibility. This...

How corporations are stepping up to tackle crises when governments won’t

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

September 10, 2019

Sarah Kaplan writes for The Conversation that corporations can be part of the system of checks and balances for social...

Are companies right to abandon the shareholder-first mantra?

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

August 27, 2019

Sarah Kaplan is invited by the Financial Times to explain why the Business Roundtable announcement is a good first step...

Mansplaining: New solutions to a tiresome old problem

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

In The Conversation (and Fast Company), Kaplan looks to organizational solutions to a dynamic that silences...

Taking stakeholders, rather than Milton Friedman, seriously: Beyond “shared value” approaches for corporate social responsibility

360º Corporation, Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

My Stanford Press blog post on The 360º Corporation. “For decades, we have mythologized Milton Friedman’s 1970...

The gender pay gap: How Canada can lead at the G7

Blogs and op-eds, News

August 14, 2019

In this Globe and Mail op ed, Sarah Kaplan and pay equity commissioner Emanuela Heyninck show how Canada can play a...

When Care Work and Paid Work Collide

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

While people in the Western world often assume that extended families in developing countries are oppressive to women...

Why the ‘business case’ for hiring more women isn’t working

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

Sarah Kaplan and Nancy Wilson write for the Globe and Mail that the “business case” won’t motivate...

Beyond Policy: How Gendered Interactions on the Ground Shape Development

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

Viewing social and economic development as a series of interpersonal interactions can help us understand why...

A brief process for more enlightened brainstorming

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

Sarah Kaplan writes for Quartz: Everybody wants to generate breakthrough ideas. Few people know how to do it....

Reconsidering Gender Diversity in Economic Development

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

Building truly inclusive economies requires that leaders broaden their understanding of gender and the many different...

Holding Up the Sky: Achieving Women’s Empowerment Requires Working with Women and Men

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

Involving men in women’s economic development projects can lead to higher impact for women and changes in gender...

The Mantra of Meritocracy

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

Our ongoing obsession with the myth of meritocracy is now spreading to education systems in developing economies with...

What’s Right with Kansas

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

Sarah Kaplan reviews No Place Like Home: Lessons from Activism in LGBT Kansas by C. J. Janovy which offers up...

Learning Doesn’t Mean a Livelihood

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

Though girls may be actively encouraged to get educated, family responsibilities and cultural expectations can hold...

Overtime & Underpaid

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

Laudable efforts to harness the economic potential of women are being hampered: There are only so many hours in the...

Listen to Local Women

Blogs and op-eds

August 14, 2019

While many NGOs strive to provide women with economic empowerment, women themselves find more value in gaining social...

Briefing: Early Childhood Education and Care

Blogs and op-eds

July 8, 2019

Sarah Kaplan and colleagues outline a creative new plan for increasing childcare availability....

Inclusion key to creating safe LGBTQ work space

Blogs and op-eds, News

June 10, 2019

Sarah Kaplan writes with colleague Geoff Leonardelli for The Star that diversity is not the same as inclusion when it...