Corporate / NGO Engagement

The challenges:

• How to decide when to remove oneself from a research project due to ethical concerns
• How to informally report on policy processes and retain policy relevance even while disengaging from a specific project

The background and policy setting:

Parkinson earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2013. She researches organizational

The challenges:

• How to collaborate with business representatives in ways that generate fruitful conversations while maintaining your own integrity and reputation
• How to recommend partnerships with business to solve global problems without damaging the partners' reputation and legitimacy or providing business with a shield against legitimate criticism

Background:

Virginia Haufler is a scholar whose research explores the

The challenge:

• Providing policy advice on corporate engagement to one’s university from a human rights perspective, while being far removed from corporate decision-making.
• Providing advice to the university as a professor but in a context that operates according to different norms from her teaching and research responsibilities.

The background and policy setting:

Hertel became an academic after