At the beginning of the month, Harvard Business Review published
Leadership in the Age of Transparency by Christopher Meyer and Julia Kirby. Mr. Meyer and Ms. Kirby argue that the best way to think about corporate social responsibility is in terms of “externalities” – the economist’s term for impacts that firms needn’t pay for because they are difficult to assign to individual business’s activities.
In the coming weeks, HBR will hear from a diverse set of business and thought leaders who will debate this question: Does business need a better way to think about responsibility? And if so, what is that better way?
Leader to Leader President and CEO Frances Hesselbein will weigh in to wrap up the debate in May.