Canada’s Economy Will Only Recover if Marginalized Communities Get Support

Sarah Kaplan talks about the Feminist Economy Recovery Plan in Global Citizen.

Canada must address gender equity as part of the new norm

Sarah Kaplan discusses the Feminist Economic Recovery Plan in Wealth Professional magazine

Here’s what’s inside Canada’s first-ever feminist economic recovery plan

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Future of Good about why COVID-19 is a crisis that requires a uniquely feminist response.

Boosting marginalized groups key to ‘feminist economic recovery,’ report says

Sarah Kaplan speaks with the Canadian Press about the new GATE/YWCA Feminist Economic Recovery Plan

A Feminist Action Plan for the Economic Recovery

Sarah Kaplan spoke with Gill Deacon on CBC’s Here and Now about the GATE-YWCA Feminist Action Plan for the Economic Recovery

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

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

360 gradi: oltre la responsabilità sociale dell’impresa

L’Impresa à 360º is reviewed in Este: Cultura d’impresa: “un approccio fresco e stimolante su un tema che spesso è affrontato in modo eccessivamente esortativo.”

Mulheres no governo contra o novo coronavírus

Sarah Kaplan speaks with HSM Management magazine about the gendered impact of COVID-19.

Building Back Better After the Pandemic

Rotman School professors Sarah Kaplan and Soo Min Toh look to the future for organizations

A Supermarket Billionaire Steps Into Trouble Over COVID Pay

Sarah Kaplan speaks with Bloomberg News about COVID, inequalities and essential workers.

L’ impresa a 360 gradi. Dai compromessi con gli stakeholder alla trasformazione organizzativa

The 360º Corporation reviewed in MercurPress! (in Italian)

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).

“Not business as usual”

Sarah Kaplan’s work at GATE is featured in the Rotman Investors’ Report 2019

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.”

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.

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 […]

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.

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

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.

¿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”

Creating A Purpose-Driven Corporation

In Forbes: The 360º Corporation is “a more realistic road map for creating the corporation of the future.”

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…”

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.”

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.

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”.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

Pay transparency legislation

Sarah Kaplan talks with CBC business news about how pay transparency could narrow the wage gap between men and women

Women-focused co-working spaces increase in Canada

Speaking on CBC television, Sarah Kaplan discussed the role that women’s only workplaces can play in the era of #MeToo.

#MeToo Backlash In Corporate Canada Sees Women Locked Out

Sarah Kaplan speaks to the Huffington Post about how male colleagues and supervisors are using #MeToo to avoid mentoring.

Defenders of Democracy?

Sarah Kaplan appears on TVO’s The Agenda to talk about the role of the corporation in society.

Experts talk strategy behind the grocery wars

Kaplan joined other experts on TVO’s The Agenda to discuss “Grocery Store Wars” looking at some of the major players in the grocery game and how their actions influence consumers.

Mind the gap: Business schools help women break the glass ceiling

Kaplan tells the Financial Times, “It is absolutely not about ‘teaching women…[this idea]  allows firms to shirk their responsibilities to change workplace practices.”

Minister Patty Hajdu on pay equity and tackling the gender wage gap

The Hon. Patty Hajdu (Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour) joined Director Sarah Kaplan for a fireside chat with Rotman students. During this talk, Minister Hajdu explained the latest pay equity legislation put forward by the Canadian government, as well as other initiatives needed to close the gender wage gap.

StatCan study says men are paid more than women after graduation. Here’s how much more

Sarah Kaplan speaks to Global News about the gender wage gap.  “Sarah Kaplan, professor at the Rotman School of Management in Toronto and director of the school’s Institute for Gender and the Economy, said she thinks the gender gap identified by the study mainly boils down to men and women taking on different jobs — […]

Footnote in CUSMA text allows U.S. to avoid LGBTQ rights clause

Sarah Kaplan is quoted by Global News on the North American trade negotiations. “Article 23.9 lays out policies to work together to end employment discrimination, explained Sarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy and professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. But she said the footnote […]

Gillette’s socially conscious message likely to get warm reception in Canada

CTV News quotes Sarah Kaplan about socially conscious advertising: “The ad places Gillette among handfuls of other companies who have turned to socially-conscious advertising — a growing phenomenon abroad and in Canada, said Sarah Kaplan, director of the University of Toronto’s Institute for Gender and the Economy. Two men are seen in a scene from […]

An MBA can raise women’s salaries, but make the pay gap worse

The Globe and Mail quotes Sarah Kaplan who “argues that real change rests on making structural reforms to company hiring and promotion practices. At present, she says, employees who want to join the leadership track have to opt in and say, “‘I want to get promoted.’” But she says preliminary findings by Rotman researchers show […]

This is how science can fix its glaring gender inequality problem

Wired magazine reports that “When Sarah Kaplan, professor of gender and the economy at the University of Toronto, recently got invited to speak on a panel where she was the only woman, she immediately wrote back saying this was inexcusable….”

Five gender equality solutions for medicine and science

Scitech Europa reports that Profs. Sonia Kang and Sarah Kaplan offer five gender equality solutions for medicine and science.

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

Sarah Kaplan and Nancy Wilson (CEO of Canadian Women’s Chamber of Commerce) contribute to The Globe and Mail on how the business case might actually get in the way of progress on gender equality. As we mark International Women’s Day on Friday, many people – including us – will note that not enough progress has […]

Federal budget 2019: New funding will fill key data gaps, create Canadian information centre

Sarah Kaplan speaks to The Globe and Mail about the 2019 federal budget.

Why Are Business Schools Still Struggling to Recruit Women?

Sarah Kaplan speaks with VICE about how MBA culture needs to change in order to increase the numbers of women in programs.

Women in the boardroom: Has the time for quotas arrived?

In this Globe and Mail op-ed, Sarah Kaplan and law professor Aaron Dhir suggest that quotas might be the only way to make meaningful progress (and it won’t compromise quality).

Leaders facing change need to be expert ghostbusters

Kaplan’s research on organizational change is cited by the Financial Times to explain how outmoded habits are often the same ones that knitted the old company together

Institute for Gender and the Economy launched at U of T

Gender and the economy will be the focus of a new research institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.