Business leaders once flirted with activism. Under Trump, neutrality is back in style.
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Yvon Chouinard, his wife and their two adult children have given the company he founded away. From now on, its profits will fund climate and conservation work.
As capitalism’s image crumbles, many of the world’s biggest companies are trying to give it new life by showing it can mean more than just making money.
What and who businesses exist to serve is an age-old debate – but it’s nearly always been driven by the bottom line.
Although Gandhi is best known for expelling the British from India and inspiring the likes of King and Mandela, he also wrote a lot about the behavior of good business leaders.
Corporations are often stepping in to fill the void when governments are failing to adequately address social, economic and environmental crises.
A group of America’s most powerful CEOs said companies should no longer merely focus on maximizing shareholder wealth. A business professor explains why it’s not a big deal.
A new kind of capitalism is emerging in which companies value communities, the environment and workers just as much as profits. Even the Business Roundtable agrees.
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Senior Research Fellow in Nonprofit Organizations, UMass Amherst
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Professor, Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management; Director, Institute for Gender and the Economy, University of Toronto
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