January 2024
Event Details
Join us for a special conversation with Alice Korngold, President and CEO of Korngold Consulting LLC, about her new book exploring corporate governance and how companies can drive solutions to social, economic, and environmental challenges. A reception in the Grand Gallery will follow.
DATE
Monday, January 29, 2024
TIME
5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
LOCATION
New York Law School
Room WA10
185 West Broadway
New York, NY 10013
MODERATOR
Professor Tamara C. Belinfanti
Alice Korngold, President and CEO of Korngold Consulting LLC, provides strategy advisory services for executives of multinational companies and boards of directors of global and regional nonprofits. Her expertise is in board governance; sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG); diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); and measurement and ratings. Korngold authored three books, including A Better World, Inc.: Corporate Governance for an Inclusive, Sustainable, and Prosperous Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
About the Book
The first edition of A Better World, Inc. showed how companies can profit by solving global problems. Increasingly, companies and investors are capitalizing on these opportunities. The three factors necessary for success were revealed to be effective corporate governance, stakeholder engagement, and collaboration. Racial equity and justice, and gender equity, were also themes in the original edition.
By drawing on new research and case studies, this updated edition shows that inclusion and sustainability are in fact fundamental prerequisites for prosperity for companies and society. Specifically, racial inequity and injustice, and gender inequity, are systemic problems that impede businesses from achieving their greater potential in the global marketplace; in the meantime, society suffers as well.
The second edition of A Better World, Inc. builds on the first by showing that companies have the power and incentives — and their boards of directors have the responsibility and the authority — to drive solutions to social, economic, and environmental challenges. Readers will learn how companies and their boards, together with nonprofits and governments, can drive prosperity by centering equity and sustainability.