Why decline in corporate statemanship? - The US experience

At one time, corporate leaders played a major role in developing pragmatic and moderate solutions to the nation's problems. In the three decades after World War II, a group of businessmen representing large companies - the Committee for Economic Development - played a central role in both Democratic and Republican administrations, advocating full employment, increased funding for education and academic research, universal health care, and - at numerous points - tax increases, including surcharges on big business.

What was the source of this corporate statesmanship, and why has it largely disappeared? ... READ MORE

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Released by Harvard Business Review - 24 April 2013