Becoming A Better Corporate Citizen

Capitalism is under pressure. People all over the world believe that CEOs manage companies for the short term because of a single-minded focus on shareholders. The emergence of activist investors, who focus on quickly extracting outsize returns, has created even more angst about how companies are run. To address these issues, academics, think tanks, corporate leaders, and NGOs have started talking about how to reform the capitalist system so that it works for everyone. In August 2019 the Business Roundtable issued a statement signed by 181 CEOs who committed to focusing on all stakeholders.

Read the entire post on the Harvard Business Review.