At first glance, Friedrich Nietzsche’s pro-capitalist stance on private property and the process of accumulating profit (or wealth) may seem...

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The principle of majority rule is a staple of democratic theory. Typically the victor of a close election is quick to proclaim that “the pe...

Assuming all the votes cast in an election are accurately tallied, the pronouncement of the winner would seem to be straight-forward. Wha...

Typically as a company transitions from an enterprising, creative new venture to a large organization to be managed, a staid CEO replaces a...

M ore than two years after the worst oil disaster in U.S. history, BP agreed in 2012 “to accept criminal responsibility for the . . . disas...

In late September 2011, Léo Apotheker was fired after 11 months as CEO at Hewlett-Packard. As a reward, he walked with $13.2 million in cas...

Does the fact that an earnings-per-share figure has not meaningfully improved over, say, five years justify an overhaul pushed by a hedge-f...

In 2016, Sacred Heart University purchased G.E.’s headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut for $31.5 million. Gone were the Persian rugs and...

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From a historical perspective, I suspect that what “counts,” or is recognized, as discourse on business has consecutively narrowed. An ent...

In J anuary 2012, Starbucks joined Microsoft and Nike in publicly supporting the same-sex marriage bill in the U.S. state of Washington. ...

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Lest it be thought that Congress ignoring the business lobby would result in laws capable of reforming corporate governance in the U.S. i...

In the days leading up to Labor Day 2012, Citigroup announced that the bank would pay $590 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by...