The Business Roundtable comprising 200 of America’s biggest and most powerful companies with a combined $7 trillion in revenue has issued a new statement of purpose which forgoes the profit maximising ethos. The new creed calls for environmental protection and workers’ rights. While this may be a defence mechanism to counter rising populist anger towards inequality, not everyone thinks this will be easy to implement.

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Categories:  Business Analysis,  Investments

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