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Country and Company: Part II - Aligning Goals

Ralph Gomory | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Adam Smith, Markets, Unemployment, Wall Street, Profit, Economy, Economic Crisis, Ceos, Business News, Us Financial Crisis, Shareholder Value, Business, Citigroup, Global Economic Crisis, Business News
Ralph Gomory

Without balanced trade productive companies operating in the United States are open to continuing assault from foreign entities advantaged by their governments.

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Creating Shared Value

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe | Posted 05.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Shareholders, Global Economy, Shared Values, Nestle Company, Shareholder Value, Nestle, Global Companies, Business News
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe

If you fail to work on behalf of the public interest and take shortcuts that place the public at risk, you also will fail your shareholders.

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Country and Company: Part I - Divergent Goals

Ralph Gomory | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Citigroup, Markets, Unemployment, Profit, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Ceos, Economy, Us Financial Crisis, Business News, Shareholder Value, Business, Global Economic Crisis, Adam Smith, Business News
Ralph Gomory

While it is tempting to blame the succession of economic crises on greedy executives, sub-prime mortgage pushers and others of that ilk, it is in fact much more a system problem than a sudden widespread collapse of human nature.

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Living and Dying American

Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: President Obama, The Clintons, James Winborn Turner, Greatest Generation, Man on the Moon, America, 9/11, The Flag, Civil War, Democratization, Win, Reagan, Ayn Rand, American History, Texas History, Houston, Pride, Great Depression, American Nostalgia, Preemptive War, American Know How, Marines, Trickle Down, Meritocracy, Texas, Shareholder Value, Barack Obama, American Attitude, Patriotism, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam, Living News
Stephen Herrington

Back then a typical Republican was to the left of the Clintons. Nixon was a transition. It took Reagan to really define the world in which we now live, in which merit is no longer of value.

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In Which I Come Face-to-Face with the American Investor

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street, Shareholder Value, Bailouts, Investors, Bing, Economy, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Is it possible, that at some time in the future, the welfare of the companies we serve could be divorced from the fear, the greed, the feral hysteria of the securities marketplace?

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Leadership is More Than Profit

Margaret Blair and Ralph Gomory | Posted 10.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Free Trade, u.s. Economy Problems, Globalization, Corporate Responsibility, Shareholder Value, Economics, Corporate America, Economy, CEO Pay, Recession, Business News
Margaret Blair and Ralph Gomory

In the rush to globalization, the United States has tossed aside a crucial principle that guided the economic prosperity of the twentieth century: co...

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John McCain's New Populism?

Diane Francis | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Greed, Wall Street Bonuses, John McCain, CEO Pay, Wall Street Regulations, Excess CEO Compensation, Lobbyists, CEO Compensation, Shareholder Rights, Corporate Power, Shareholder Value, Shareholder Democracy, Barack Obama, Tax Cuts Fo Rthe Rich, Business Roundtable, Boards of Directors, Profits, Corporate America, Economic Reform, Tax Cuts, Business News
Diane Francis

McCain can "pledge" to reform Wall Street business practices all he wants, but he hasn't walked the walk in the Senate in past years, nor has his party ever done so.

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