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Davos Attendees Discuss "Stakeholder Capitalism"
January 22, 2020
Business leaders and policy makers attending this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland are considering the implications of transitioning from a classical interpretation of the role of businesses to maximize shareholder value to the role of maximizing the outcomes for a variety of stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers, and communities.
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BlackRock Signs Climate Change Pact
January 15, 2020
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with more than $6.8 trillion under its control, has become a signatory to Climate Action 100+, joining 370 other global investors in an initiative designed to encourage companies to take action on climate change by becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
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Wagner and Kuklis: EU Needs a Single Institution to Tackle Problem of Online Disinformation
January 08, 2020
Ben Wagner and Lubos Kuklis explain their proposal for the creation of a new single European institution which could act as an auditing intermediary to ensure that the data provided to regulators by social media companies are accurate.
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Gorman: Rollout of 5G Cellular Networks Constitutes a "Geopolitical Turning Point"
January 08, 2020
According to Lindsay Gorman writing in The Atlantic, the West has ample reason for caution about Chinese 5G suppliers, including a recent Chinese National Intelligence Law requiring companies to comply with Communist Party demands to turn over data or otherwise engage in snooping or network-disruption activities.
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Former Google Executive Criticizes Google's Human Rights Record
January 07, 2020
Ross LaJeunesse, the former head of global international relations at Google, has posted a strongly-worded blog post criticizing the company for its alleged neglect of human rights concerns.
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