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Jan 2022
22m 58s

How Companies Reckon with Past Wrongdoin...

Harvard Business Review
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Sarah Federman, assistant professor at the University of Baltimore, studies how companies handle their historical misdeeds and what that means for employees and customers. From insurance firms that backed slave owners to railroad companies that transported victims of the Holocaust, many legacy companies can find they played a role in past transgressions. Fed ... Show More
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