Sophomore Zining Chen worked for months preparing for this moment on her campus at Carnegie Mellon. Now, she sat in front of a group of business leaders at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, explaining her business plan for how to use artificial intelligence to better train machine learning models to prevent gender bias in algorithms.

The threat of disruptive employee behavior and even workplace violence is a major C-suite concern during this political campaign year.

To tackle the problems of a highly polarized society, which virtually all corporate executives agree is not helpful to a productive business environment, business must do more to be part of the solution.

The Dialogue Project recently staged a crisis simulation exercise at the annual conference of the Page Society, the global association of chief corporate affairs officers. Using a hypothetical but highly realistic event, and with the participation of some of the world’s most admired leaders from business, government and journalism, the session explored how a multinational organization must manage a range of stakeholder demands as it confronts a crisis that combines a global public health issue with the politicization that unfortunately accompanies it.

This spring, The Dialogue Project, a program inside the Fuqua School of Business that explores what role business can play to help reduce polarization in our society, hosted a discussion as part of the school’s alumni reunion weekend, in which …

Companies and researchers outline frameworks for speaking out on societal issues