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Companies That Do Right by Their Workers Start by Elevating Their Definition of Success

Harvard Business Review

There are no public shareholders clamoring for higher dividends, no hedge funds gorging on management fees. ” As one senior executive explained to me, “The focus of most companies is to improve their financial capital. Our focus is on social capital.”

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Are You a Role Model?

Harvard Business Review

As he acknowledges, he also had the incredible good fortune to be born into money and privilege, which provided him with endless support, social capital and opportunity. "If But what's most impressive about Warren Buffett is that he recognizes his wealth and success are not simply a function of his skills.

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Reimagining Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

What does it mean to articulate and instill a vision compelling enough to inspire sacrifice, stimulate innovation, and hedge against expediency? Capitalism cannot operate in a social vacuum, and profits and shareholder return can no longer be the only measures of a company's value-add.