How companies reckon with past wrongdoing

HBR IdeaCasr, Harvard Business Review, 18 January 2022

Assistant professor Sarah Federman of the University of Baltimore discusses how companies handle their historical misdeeds, and what that means for employees and customers. From firms that backed slave owners to companies that transported Holocaust victims, many legacy companies can find they played a role in past transgressions. Federman makes a moral and practical argument for uncovering and addressing…