Protests against Dow Chemical’s production of napalm for the war in Vietnam enveloped the company in the late 1960s.

Juanita Kreps, Secretary of Commerce under Jimmy Carter between 1977-1979. She proposed a social performance audit for big business but was quickly forced to walk it back.

General Motors Corporation, Annual Report (1970).

From Archie Carroll, “The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: Toward the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders,” Business Horizons (July 1991).

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).