Economic Models

Even the worst-run startup can beat competitors if investors prop it up. The V.C. firm Benchmark helped enable WeWork to make one wild mistake after another—hoping that its gamble would pay off before disaster struck.

The Great Reset (aka Build Back Better, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the New Normal, the Green New Deal or the New Deal for Nature) is an attempted global capitalist coup on a scale never befo…

Following the election and the numerous challenges of 2020, C-suite leaders may have many questions about the future. Meanwhile, the rising momentum behind stakeholder capitalism is likely to continue. Leaders can lean on that momentum, along with organizational purpose, to help chart the course ahead.

Society's big problems aren't just for governments to solve. The private sector must play a central role in driving systemic change

Frame the issue in a way that stirs emotion.

From a backwater to the mainstream in little more than a decade, investing along environmental, social and governance (ESG) lines is big business these days.

For decades we’ve slavishly chased economic growth as an end in itself. But as anger at government and big business grows, now’s the time to question what we thought we always knew, says David Pilling

Companies are trying to define a broader purpose for their business but the exercise is fraught with risks

Big firms in the United States have never had it so good. Time for more competition

The new agenda brand thinking encapsulates the role of the Financial Times as your trusted guide to the new normal.

Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would.

What economists have gotten wrong for the last few decades

You might disagree with Milton Friedman’s famous claim that the sole social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. But you can’t deny that it sounds simple and straightforward. Here’s the full Friedman, as originally expressed in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, then exposed to a larger audience in a 1970 New York […]

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Why did America listen to the people who thought we needed “more millionaires and more bankrupts?”

What capitalism prioritizes, the world does more of. So how can we change capitalism so that it focuses on what humans really want and need? Entrepreneur Andrew Yang has a surprising proposal.

The official statistics say that the financial crisis is behind us. It's not.

A rip in the fabric of the economy won’t be healed easily, and denial of the severity of the crisis won’t solve it.

Milton Friedman and his peers set America on the course of shareholder primacy. Business leaders and academics are considering what must be done for a stakeholder-driven alternative.

WASHINGTON – Business Roundtable today announced the release of a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation signed by…

China says it has come up with a way to influence their citizens’ behavior to benefit society and move the country forward.

The Business Roundtable’s new letter could mark a turning point.

A deliberate attempt to mislead people into thinking a company is greener than it really is; or a genuine attempt to clarify a business's true commitment to the environment?.

Global consumers feel a personal accountability to address social and environmental issues and look to companies as partners in progress, according to findings from the 2015 Cone Communications/Ebiquity Global CSR Study, released today.

As we get into cars with complete strangers, sleep in the beds of people we’ve never met and lend money to others on the other side of the world, a powerful new currency is emerging -- and it’s based on trust. What’s striking about the shared economy is not the technology that has made it possible, but the vast changes it has triggered in society.

Getting trust right is critical to commerce and economic growth. Evidence from behavioral economics can help guide the way.