Professor Sarah Kaplan, an expert on stakeholder engagement, views trade-offs between stakeholder needs as opportunities for innovation. However, navigating these challenges is far from easy. Her advice in the face of failure? Don’t give up – try something else. She appears on the Pi-Squared podcast.

The Governance Solutions podcast welcomes Sarah Kaplan to talk about corporate governance, corporate purpose and diversity on boards. Her focus is applying an innovation lens to understanding the challenges of achieving gender equality, and other social goods, has helped us to change (and understand) the society that we live in.

In this interview for Harvard Business School’s Institue for Business in Global Society, Sarah Kaplan says that to drive meaningful change in board diversity and corporate purpose, businesses and regulators must move beyond soft-touch approaches and focus on thorough implementation and understanding of the challenges, as evidenced by research on disclosure regulations and their varied impact on firms.

The Sorenson Impact Center led a roundtable discussion at the event with a group of leading impact professionals to explore the theory of stakeholder capitalism and how it is evolving for a new era of business.

Sarah Kaplan, Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto. Kaplan won an Aspen Institute Ideas Worth Teaching Award for her course, The 360º Corporation, which investigates a single firm from a full spectrum of economic and social perspectives. We spoke with Professor Kaplan about her course.

In the mid-1990s, corporate Canada adopted a new set of guidelines to inform the structure of their boards of directors. A quarter century on, and amid mounting emergencies such as COVID-19, climate change, inequality, racism, and ongoing gender gaps, is another overhaul needed? Steve Paikin of TVO’s The Agenda discusses this with Veena Ramani, senior program director, Capital Market Systems at Ceres; and Sarah Kaplan, director at the Institute for Gender and the Economy.

Best-selling author of The 360° Corporation and Professor of Management at the University of Toronto, Dr. Sarah Kaplan explains how the ‘innovation mindset’ can be applied to sustainability, how the diverse views of stakeholders can improve decision making, why it’s important to dwell in tensions between stakeholders when there is no clear win-win solution, and much more.

As we navigate this global pandemic and make plans to move forward, we’re realizing that striving for ‘back to normal’ or ‘business as usual’ isn’t good enough. “As the COVID-19 crisis and the recent Black Lives Matter protests have pointed out, ‘normal’ wasn’t so great for a lot of people,” explains Sarah Kaplan. In the latest Managing Uncertainty webinar — Build Back Better After COVID-19: Why Corporations Need a Radical Redesign — Kaplan and Professor Soo Min Toh, discuss what it means to build back better, and why rebuilding should be seen as an innovation challenge.

It's said that a rising tide lifts all boats. That's usually considered a good thing. But what if the economic growth that the expression refers to actually results in widespread flooding... To continue the metaphor... Acting as a driving force behind ecological destruction? In a conversation with host Steve Paikin of TVO’s The Agenda, we addressed: What are the consequences of endless economic expansion?

Today on the Front Burner radio show and podcast, host Jayme Poisson talks to business professor Sarah Kaplan about the decision by the world’s biggest money manager, BlackRock, to make climate change central to its investment decisions, and whether corporations can lead on climate change action.

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 social actors too. The Agenda welcomes Sarah Kaplan to discuss her new book, "The 360 degree Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation," about how businesses are confronting some of those new expectations.

In August 2019, 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 best-run companies do more." It was part of a wider call for change in how companies do business. Joining Steve Paikin of TVO’s The Agenda in a discussion about success beyond profits is Phillip Haid, of the social impact marketing agency PUBLIC Inc.; Toby Heaps, of Corporate Knights Inc.; Tanya van Biesen, of the digital marketing agency Catalyst; and Sarah Kaplan, author of "The 360 degree Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation."