At the same time, there is a clear winner — the concept of shareholder primacy. The idea, popularized by Nobel laureate Milton Friedman in 1970, is that corporate executives and boards have a ...

Why? Well, the combination of the two constitute a violent regulatory swing that reallocates power away from shareholders and toward corporate insiders. Like Musk, conveniently. The story of ...

In the Trump era, the 2019 US Business Round Table departure from maximizing shareholder value is looking like a bad bet.

You probably expect your investments to be put to work -- for you. However, that might not always be the case. Explore More: ...

rewarding a narrow group of shareholders with dividends and stock buybacks. Why are young Americans so skeptical about capitalism? In a recent (2022) Pew Research poll, only 40% of 18-to-29 year ...

The notion of “shareholder democracy” has become a pervasive part of corporate rhetoric and woke media narrative. However, as ...

stakeholder capitalism -- which demotes shareholders to one of many groups (employees, ... Before leaving office, Biden granted six-month extensions for Secret Service protection to his DHS chief ...

and favor monopolistic practices may deliver immediate stock market gains but undermine the social fabric upon which sustainable capitalism depends. To move beyond shareholder primacy, we must ...

The notion that shareholders are all that should matter ... Eventually, true to the spirit of capitalism, an industry of DEI consultants, marketers and HR professionals sprang up.

Central to Puzder’s account of the attempt to destroy shareholder capitalism is the role of the Big Three asset managers — BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), whose ...