In honor of Lynn Stout's efforts to better suit the business corporation for the pursuit of long-term, publicly-beneficial purposes, the present essay reviews critically the historical process by which the corporation's tie to public purposes—a precondition of...
The citizen pressure on capital took many forms: shareholder resolutions calling for corporations to pull out of South Africa; divestment campaigns to get universities, pension funds and other institutional | investors to swear off the stock of | companies invested in apartheid; and | selective purch...
How many employees are in the federal bureaucracy? How does federalism work? Which branch of government can affect the operation of the federal bureaucracy? How are government regulations established? How does federalism work in the United States?
Madison Butler is one of the many diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) professionals that companies previously brought on their payroll to ensure their business isequitableand accessible for people of all backgrounds. But in recent months, Butler said she has found i...
FIGURE 4.1. How charter schools compare with public schools, math test score gains, 2013.Source: “National Charter School Study, 2013,” Center for Research on Education Outcomes, Stanford University, 2013,http://credo.stanford.edu/documents/NCSS%202013%20Final%20Draft.pdf.In many cases, chart...
Those polled also estimated that about 40% of Americans live below the poverty line – far more than the actual figure of 15%. Again, though, the public may have the clearer view. Many experts on poverty say that in addition to the roughly 45 million Americans who live below the official...
In this issue, our eighth 40 Best Companies for Diversity list identifies corporations closest to practicing this principle. The companies featured on our roster exert a strong culture of inclusion, starting at the top with many of the CEOs presiding over internal inclusion councils and tying divers...
Environmental campaigns that tell us how many people drive SUVs unwittingly ( ' , 不经意地 ) imply that this behaviour is widespread and thus permissible. 出自-2015年12月阅读原文 At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we recently studied how learning to ask good questions can affect the qualit...
Collectively the freedoms of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition are known as “freedom of expression.” From the 20th century onward, many individuals and entities have legally challenged the government when they believed their rights were under attack. In response to these legal challe...