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.
A session at Davos highlighted the consequences of capitalism.
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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.
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 stepping in to support and invest in social and environmental change when governments cannot or will not.
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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.
Wayfair workers protested their employer’s decision to sell beds to immigrant detention facilities.
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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.