[2] He also was a finalist for the award with Alexandra Christina in 2018 for Sincerity Edge: How ethical leaders build dynamic businesses (2017).

[5][6] Fort received the Distinguished Career Faculty Award of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business in 2022 and was nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

Their work is credited with forming a basis for the UN Global Compact, helping to establish the field of business and peace, and providing a foundation for peacebuilding research in management.

[8] Some critics have argued that Fort's view is overly optimistic, and underestimates the potential for businesses to adapt to and benefit in the short term from a dysfunctional status quo.

Unintentional contributors can benefit society by following ethical business practices, even if they do not identify peace as an explicit goal.

[18] Fort is credited with offering "a new and compelling perspective" on the leadership role to be taken by multinational businesses in promoting peace in the countries in which they work.

[19] The sincerity edge: how ethical leaders build dynamic businesses (2017) was a finalist for the SIM Book Award in 2018.

Sincerity is described in terms of the extent to which an organization recognizes and lives out values of integrity, trust, and authenticity as goods in and of themselves.