Think about how much digital technology has altered your life in recent years. For almost everyone, it’s quite a lot. Smartphones, social media, streaming services and the ever-proliferating number of mobile apps now consume enormous amounts of our time and lives. And yet, according to official GDP statistics, the share of our economy accounted for by…
In corporate boardrooms and leading business schools, the question of for whom a publicly traded company is supposed to work has a simple answer: its shareholders. But a single-minded focus on maximizing shareholder value at almost any cost is responsible for much of what is wrong with our current economy, from the wealthy disproportionately benefitting…
