Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights

Category Winner, 2025 PROSE Awards: Business, Finance, and Management CategoryA guide for business leaders working to create socially conscious, sustainable companies - while pursuing profitsAmid growing international concerns about income inequality, labor abuses, racial injustice, and disinformation online, Conscience Incorporated examines the gaps in current corporate social responsibility measures and what more needs be done to address these challenges.The rise of new technologies such as smartphones and social media have made it easier than ever to document and spread awareness of corporate actions.Despite these developments, large corporations often fail to meaningfully address the human rights abuses linked to their business models and practices.In Conscience Incorporated, Michael Posner addresses what lies at the root of these challenges, drawing on his extensive personal experience as a human rights lawyer, State Department official under President Obama, chair of the Fair Lab