N. Craig Smith
Senior Affiliate Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility
Biography
At INSEAD, Smith teaches MBA and executive courses in business ethics, compliance, strategic corporate social responsibility and sustainability. He is also the Programme Director for the Healthcare Compliance Implementation Leadership Programmes and the Impactvise Sustainability Programme for Legal Professionals.
Professor Smith’s research is at the intersection of business and society, encompassing business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. His current research projects examine the pharmaceutical industry response to the Covid-19 pandemic, business and human rights, the “price-tag society”, Rawlsian business ethics, sustainable consumption, and whether employees will sacrifice pay to work for more socially responsible firms. He is the author, coauthor or coeditor of eight books and over fifty academic journal articles, as well as over fifty case studies, including many award-winners and best-sellers. His most recent books are: The Moral Responsibility of Firms (with Eric Orts; Oxford University Press, 2017) and Managing Sustainable Business (with Gilbert Lenssen; Springer, 2019).
As well as a regular speaker at international conferences, he conducts workshops and consultancy assignments with various organizations on business ethics, compliance and corporate responsibility/sustainability, including board level workshops on sustainability.
Latest posts
Business and Politics Should Never Mix – Or Should They?
M. Scholz, C. Smith
Making Radical Change a Business Sustainability Imperative
N. Craig Smith
The Sustainability Imperative for the Legal Profession
N. C. Smith, R. Soonieus
Three Ways Digitalisation Changes Corporate Responsibility
N. C. Smith, L. Lankoski
How Boards Can Steer Companies to “Build Back Better”
N. Craig Smith & Ron Soonieus
A New Framework for Corporate Activism
BRT: A New View of Corporations and Capitalism
Theo Vermaelen & N. Craig Smith
BRT: The New Capitalism?
Sustainability and the Five Archetypes of Boardroom Behaviour
N. Craig Smith & Ron Soonieus
What’s Stopping Boards from Taking Action on Sustainability?
N. Craig Smith & Ron Soonieus
Finding Good News for Business and Human Rights After Khashoggi
N. Craig Smith & Markus Scholz
The Critical Consequences of Culture
Balancing Profit and Social Welfare: Ten Ways to Do It
N. Craig Smith & Leena Lankoski
Why Not Corporate Activism in the UK?
Big Investors Call for Company Attention to Social Purpose: What Next?
Craig Smith & Markus Scholz
Identifying Social Norms Makes for Better Business
Craig Smith & Markus Scholz
Business vs. Trump: How CEOs Can Make a Difference
Craig Smith
Who Is Responsible for Corporate Misconduct?
Craig Smith & Eric Orts
Bringing Fresh Air to Biogas
Matina Rassia & Craig Smith
Trump Puts Business Values to the Test
Craig Smith
The Drug Price Dilemma
N. Craig Smith
Who’s Responsible? The Ethics of the Sharing Economy
Advertisers' Ethical Dilemmas in Emerging Markets
Finding Profit in Creating a Smarter Planet