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Why Do Corporations Need A Single Purpose?

Harvard Business Review

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. Others are investing for retirement or to pay for a child's college tuition, and care about long-term returns.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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