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Corporate social responsibility|How Companies Can Address Their Historical Transgressions
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Corporate social responsibility

How Companies Can Address Their Historical Transgressions

Lessons from the slave trade and the Holocaust by Sarah Federman

From the Magazine (January–February 2022)
Matthew Shain

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In 2002 the executives of CSX, a freight railway company whose origins lay in the early 1800s, received unexpected news: The company was being sued in a federal district court in New York as part of a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of all living descendants of enslaved people in the United States.

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A version of this article appeared in the January–February 2022 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Read more on Corporate social responsibility or related topics Business history, Corporate communications, Business ethics and Public relations

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