: Rising in the wary summer sun
: Both of the shifts can be tied back to two things: the rise of hip-hop and the growing popularity …
: [Elon Musk’s] bigger problem is that he does not seem to know what he bought. There is little …
: The distinctively modern feature of totalitarianism is that it combines a radically artficialist …
: The March of the Intellect. Robert Seymour. c. 1828.
: An article in Vogue by the son of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. on the new corporate activists.
: Stakeholder theory as a way of seeing old things in a new light We have a host of big American companies that are doing it right from the standpoint of all their …
: Overheard at an academic conference “I remember I was starting up an escalator in a hotel and there were two young professors I didn’t …
: Fink's letters Do Larry Fink’s annual letters make a difference in the way big corporations do business? One …
: History has a way of repeating itself, in a different form. Although about 7,000 mergers were completed in 1968, fewer than 3,000 mergers were consummated in …
: “To increase shareholder value over time is the objective driving this enterprise.”
: I have had occasion recently to discuss the concept of self-regulation and how this may inure to the …
: Corporation words The principal sources for the development of the corporation in the ancient world come from ancient …
: Victor Hugo painting of the devilfish in ink.
: Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. Priorities for Action: Final Report. New York: McGraw-Hill, …
: Nike In the Global Economy, a speech by Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight on May 12, 1998 at the …
: Ferdinand Pecora. Cover of Time on June 12, 1933. He became the face of the Pecora Commission, which …
: Protests against Dow Chemical’s production of napalm for the war in Vietnam enveloped the …
: Juanita Kreps, Secretary of Commerce under Jimmy Carter between 1977-1979. She proposed a social …
: General Motors Corporation, Annual Report (1970).
: From Archie Carroll, “The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: Toward the Moral …
: Senator Estes Kefauver on the cover of Time on March 12, 1951.
: Adolf Berle gives a speech at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, circa 1950.
: Organizational chart from Alfred Chandler, Jr. The Visible Hand (1977).