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Time to Talk About the Public Interest
The TakeAway: Current global activity about “materiality” and “multiple capitals” seek to embed environmental, social, and governance considerations within corporate and investor commitments to...
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Loose Canons and Apocalypse Now: Unveiling the Ethics in the Fiduciary Ethic
Second in a Series: Time to Talk About the Public Interest The TakeAway: This essay posits that the idea of fiduciary duty, with its legal and economic constructs, rests upon on a foundation spanning...
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Back to the Future: Apocalypse Now
Image made by Mary Naber King Third in a Series: Time to Talk About the Public Interest The TakeAway: In a society saturated with market values, we need to recoup the idea of civic virtue, and the...
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Trustees Are Not Thermometers
Fifth in a Series: Time to Talk About the Public Interest The TakeAway: In the United States, key to our political form of representative self-governance is the idea of good trusteeship, of...
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Let’s Bend the Arc of Money and Power Toward Justice
Sixth in a Series: Time to Talk About the Public Interest The TakeAway: The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom provides the opportunity to reflect on what truths we hold...
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The Power of Two, Plus You! OpenLetter2013
The Takeaway: Two friends from Boston, increasingly alarmed by the dearth of meaningful action on climate change, decided to take matters into their own hands. The pair are crowdfunding a full-page ad...
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Fulfilling America’s Promise: Build Equity, Bridge the Gap
The TakeAway: As we celebrate Independence Day, it’s time to rededicate ourselves to those very ideals on which our nation was founded: liberty, opportunity, and justice for all. That means bridging...
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Money Power in the Public Interest: From “Follow the Money” to “Leverage the...
Image compiled by Visual Capitalist, and appeared in Sally French, “All the companies in Jeff Bezos’s empire, in one (large) chart,” MarketWatch, June 24, 2017. The TakeAway: Amazon’s recent purchase...
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