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The Price of Profits

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The Price of Profits

A company that deserved a shareholder-value makeover

by Sarah Gardner
Jun 14, 2016
The conglomerate Gulf and Western Industries encompassed over 100 businesses.
Mel Brooks poked fun at real-life conglomerate Gulf and Western in his 1976 comedy "Silent Movie." The screen version was "Engulf and Devour."
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Is shareholder value a myth?

by Lizzie O'Leary
Jun 14, 2016
Law professor and author Lynn Stout thinks so.
General Motors shareholders listen as then-General Motors Chairman and CEO Richard Wagoner, Jr., not shown, speaks during a meeting.
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The first corporations — way back — had social purpose

by Scott Tong
Jun 14, 2016
The idea that they are solely businesses developed as late as the 1800s.
Circa 1680, a look at the trading post established by the British East India Company at Surat.
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IBM: when corporations took care of their employees

by Dan Bobkoff
Jun 13, 2016
IBM had a policy of full employment and went without layoffs for seven decades.
 Louis V. Gerstner became CEO of IBM in 1993. Later that year, the company would lay off thousands of workers. 
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Introducing "The Price of Profits"

by Marketplace Staff
Jun 13, 2016
We're exploring what happens when profits become a company’s product, in partnership with Business Insider.
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Loyalty frays for both employers and employees

by Sarah Gardner
Jun 13, 2016
Companies use contractors to benefit from flexibility, and many workers want it, too
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