COLLECTION • JULY 27, 2020
Corporate Actual Responsibility
Constraining the Corporation
Business leaders have lost contact with the communities and institutions that might hold them accountable, escaped from the oversight and regulation that would channel their activities, and proven themselves shameless in the face of whatever weak standards of decency the culture still attempts to muster.
Q&A with MIT’s Zeynep Ton
Good jobs benefit workers and boost corporate performance, so why aren’t there more of them?
The Corporate Obligations Debate
Patrick Deneen and Andy Puzder debate the obligations of business.
Case Studies in Corporate Actual Responsibility
Four American companies demonstrate how to fulfill corporate obligations without sacrificing corporate performance.
Open Letter Re: the Business Roundtable’s Commitment to Corporate Actual Responsibility
After a year of empty promises from CEOs, a Left-Right coalition propose a framework for substantive action
Overview
In recent years, the business community has sought to rebrand itself as “socially responsible,” but in practice this has largely amounted to glossy marketing campaigns and nominal charitable contributions. What if corporate executives were instead held responsible for actually considering the interests of their workers, families, communities, and nation.
