corporations

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/17/2023
  

  Have Corporations Captured Social Science Research through Donations?

  by Nina Strohminger Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

  From decisionmaking to climate change, a focus on individual choices has flourished in social scientific research at the expense of sytemic change. Is corporate enthusiasm for funding this research any coincidence? 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  2/16/2023
  

  The Specter of Woke Corporate Communism Haunts the Republican Mind

  by Steve Fraser

  How do you run a politically useful Cold War without any actual Communism? Just declare that the organs of global capitalism are, in fact, red—borrowing some anti-Semitic tropes along the way. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/27/2023
  

  Review: New Book Worships the False Idol of the Responsible Corporation

  The idea of corporate social responsibility is an artifact of the domination of society by big business, a domination so powerful as to make alternatives exceedingly difficult to imagine. A new book internalizes that difficulty. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/21/2021
  

  Spin Doctors Have Shaped the Environmental Debate for Decades

  by Melissa Aronczyk

  E. Bruce Harrison shifted American business's response to the environmental movement from a posture of denial and refusal to one of strategic compromise that elevated industry's scientists to an authoritative position which has kept a brake on green reforms and regulation. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/9/2020
  

  The End of the Businessman President

  by Kyle Edward Williams

  Will Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic mark the end of the pernicious myths that the popular good is served by running government like a business, or that business executives have a talent for governing? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/18/2020
  

  As Amazon Rises, So Does the Opposition

  Ms. Mitchell is 47, a historian by training. But her real role is the strategist of the demise of Amazon as we know it.

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• 3/6/2020
  

  Jack Welch Was a Bitter Foe of American Workers

  by Erik Loomis

  Most national obituaries left out or downplayed Jack Welch’s greatest impact in shaping the unequal and unfair America of today: unionbusting.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/19
  

  A proposed EPA rule prioritizes industry profit over people’s lives

  by Mona Hanna-Attisha

  Limiting access to peer-reviewed science undermines the agency’s effectiveness.

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• 11/3/19
  

  Citibank: Exploiting the Past, Condemning the Future

  by Alan Singer

  To celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2011, Citibank published a book celebrating its history. Despite the book's heft, glossy photographs, and celebratory tone, Citibank and its forbearers definitely did not strive to make the world a better place.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/4/19
  

  The Original Evil Corporation

  by William Dalrymple

  The East India Company, a trading firm with its own army, was masterful at manipulating governments for its own profit. It’s the prototype for today’s multinationals.

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• 3/10/19
  

  Lessons from Studying Corporate History and the Case of IBM

  by James W. Cortada

  And what it can teach us about the longevity of corporations. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-22-14
  

  What the Hobby Lobby Ruling Means for America

  Corporations, it turns out, really are people. And that could be very bad news for the rest of us.

• SOURCE: Economic Times
  5-18-13
  

  Mark Pendergrast publishes secret Coke formula

  Safely guarded in an air-conditioned vault in Atlanta, Georgia, lies one of western society's most valuable artefacts. So valuable, that its owner could lose millions if anyone so much as got a look at it. That's what Coca-Cola would have us believe anyway , claiming the only original copy of the soft drink's top-secret recipe lies underneath its US headquarters. But one man is threatening to lift this veil of secrecy this week as he claims to publish a copy of the original formula in a new book. Historian Mark Pendergrast says the recipe was handed down through the family of Frank Robinson, the commercial partner of chemist John Pemberton, who first produced the drink in the summer of 1886.In the third edition of his book, For God, Country and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It', Pendergrast reproduces what he claims to be the same recipe that Pemberton devised over 125 years ago. Among the ingredients in the book are sugar, lime juice, nutmeg and coriander.

• SOURCE: The Nation
  2-12-13
  

  Jon Wiener: Lincoln's Birthday Special: Management Advice from Honest Abe

  Jon Wiener teaches US history at UC Irvine.Thanks to Steven Spielberg and his film Lincoln, we’ve been hit by a new wave of management wisdom supposedly gleaned from the film’s central character.  Business Week ran a piece titled “Career Lessons from Spielberg’s Lincoln”; the New York Times called theirs “Lincoln’s School of Management.”  Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose book on Lincoln and his cabinet, Team of Rivals, famously provided the basis for some of the movie, has been back on the “leadership advice” circuit.......[But] there are some key moments in Lincoln’s life that the management advice people have neglected.  One came in his Second Inaugural, when he declared that, if the Civil War continued “until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword”—if that happened, he said, he would conclude that "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."