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The second danger is that “competitiveness” implies that what is good for companies located in America – good, that is, for their investors, executives, and financiers – is good for America as a whole.
Back when President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s cabinet nominee Charlie Wilson claimed that what was “good for America was good for General Motors – and vice versa,” GM included not just shareholders, executives, and financiers, but also suppliers and members of the United Auto Workers union.
By contrast, General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, recently appointed by Obama to lead the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, runs a company that has long since narrowed to executives, investors, and financiers.
That quip would often be followed by a recitation of Milton Friedman’s famous dictum that corporate executives’ only social responsibility is to make as much money for shareholders as is legally possible.
But it also brings added complexity, reflected in the reluctance shown by the US Congress immediately after Japan announced its desire to join the TPP negotiations, as well as in recent comments by American auto executives.
Company founders and executives, like Bill Gates and Jack Ma, became rich by providing useful products and services.
Company founders and executives make up the largest share of the world’s billionaires – nearly 40%.
But roughly half of the country’s chief executives, and two-thirds of its doctors, have been privately educated.
Anger has come to focus on banking executives’ huge compensation packages, composed largely of bonuses.
Top executives from institutions representing more than $30 trillion in investable assets – one-third of the world’s total – will be in attendance.
Her promises to improve the health system, curb exorbitant pay packages of top executives, and deliver more social housing (which tenants could then purchase) looks reassuringly familiar, even old-fashioned (especially when viewed alongside her pledge to let Parliament vote to lift a nearly two-decade-old ban on fox hunting).
So, too, did a number of corporate executives, including the chief executives of JP Morgan and BlackRock.
The structure of the label should be developed by a committee of academics, regulators, and industry executives with the objective of promoting informed comparison among consumers of investment products.
And senior executives will still have a legal obligation to maximize profits.
Accountability entails a proper legal basis, clear objectives, well defined relationships between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, clear procedures for appointment and dismissal of chief executives, override mechanisms, budgetary accountability rules, and rules supporting transparency.
According to the Ethical Corporation’s latest Responsible Business Trends report, 69% of business executives surveyed said they are integrating SDGs into their strategies.
A good example of SDG 17 in action is the Food and Land Use Coalition, a global network of business executives, scientists, policymakers, investors, and farmers that is working to transform the world’s fragmented and complex food systems.
The salaries paid to its top executives – as a reward, essentially, for lending successfully to the poorest of the poor – were excoriated by leaders across India’s political spectrum.
On the contrary, there was an undisguised sense of condescension toward the visiting foreign executives.
To be successful globally, one must have the capacity both to receive and transmit information; the foreign executives must learn about Toyota and Toyota must understand the dynamics of the markets in which it operates.
Toyota’s European executives were, to be sure, proud to be part of the company and full of admiration for its products and production methods, but there also seemed to be problems of trust and communication.
This led at least one of the most senior European executives to leave the company.
Toyota Europe’s executives felt that making English the working language would contribute to improving trust, communications, and efficiency, and also to retaining high-quality staff.
While many executives have traditionally underappreciated the risks from climate change and resource degradation, understanding water risk – and acting to minimize it – is just one way that businesses are starting to incorporate natural-resource management into their core strategy and operations.
Sadly, nowadays, things as disparate as highly paid executives, the Enron and Parmalat scandals, contested mergers and acquisitions, stock market volatility, "junk bonds," and asset-price bubbles are all lumped together under the snide heading "cowboy capitalism."
America the LoserBERKELEY – The Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell recently recalled that when US President Donald Trump held a session for Harley-Davidson executives and union representatives at the White House in February 2017, he thanked them “for building things in America.”
When Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other executives of Yukos, his oil company, were arrested last year, corporations investing or interested in investing in Russia were prepared to interpret the crackdown as an isolated incident brought on by the political agenda of the company and its CEO, who should have known better.
So far, 14 men, including nine current or former FIFA executives (but not Blatter), have been charged with a range of fraud and corruption offenses in the United States, where prosecutors accuse them, among other things, of pocketing $150 million in bribes and kickbacks.
In the United States, big bonuses given to executives from firms receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts – the insurance giant AIG, in particular – has infuriated public opinion, with a populist press and Congress fueling popular rage.
The scope of accountability must expand as well, in order to affect the behavior of executives and non-executives alike.
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