Archives for blog topic “Business and Society”

"[T]he lens in which the politicians of our country see everything is
ideology, partisanship, and their own personal reelection."

Filed in Blog Topics: Election 2012, unemployment, economy, Business and Society

This past weekend, New York Times columnist Joe Nocera debunked the notion that a corporation’s primary duty is maximizing shareholder value, highlighting how this decades-old philosophy is now being reconsidered by a growing number of academics and practitioners.

Filed in Blog Topics: Business, Investment, Business and Society, shareholder value

Public interest in market short-termism—and what do about it—keeps growing.

Filed in Blog Topics: Business and Society, short-termism

How can a college education best prepare business students for their future roles as both business men and women and as citizens? With business continuing to be the most popular undergraduate major in the U.S., what is the relevance and value of the study of the humanities?

Filed in Blog Topics: Education, Business and Society