Tag Archive for: shareholder primacy
Why “Business Ethics” Has Little to Do with Business Ethics
Blog, Corporate Culture, Ethics Pays, Podcast
In this episode of the Decision Corner podcast, host Brooke Struck speaks with Jon Haidt and Alison Taylor about the role of ethics and values in business, including the challenges associated with Gen-Z, and the workplace culture changes…
How Business Can Boost Human Rights in 2021
Blog, Corporate Culture, Corporate Governance, Fairness, Human Rights, Leadership
The ghost of Milton Friedman still haunts corporate America and his outdated model.
Few will regret the passing of 2020, a year headlined by a global health crisis, profound economic distress, and high-profile examples of racial inequality.…
The Popular, Bad Arguments Against Stakeholder Capitalism
Blog, Corporate Governance
Words can easily be used as weapons to turn an intelligent nuanced debate into a caricature, thereby dismissing it from further evolution.
The gentlemen do protest too much, we think—with apologies to William Shakespeare for abusing his…
Here Is What Replaces Shareholder Primacy
BlogOne day, about a decade ago, an evolutionary biologist from Binghamton, New York, made a decision: He’d use his knowledge of humanity’s social nature to try to understand and improve its social life, especially in his hometown.
Business Roundtable Wants Fair Employee Payment, But What About Agency?
Blog, Corporate Governance, Fairness
The problem with the modern workplace is deeper than the ideology of shareholder primacy.
Well into his 30s, my father ran a pool-plumbing business that just got us by: Sometimes clients wouldn’t pay, and when they did, it wouldn’t be…