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...Colin Mayer of Oxford’s Saïd Business School argues that they must, because the Friedman doctrine of concentrating on profit alone has acted as an unnatural constraint on the multiplicity of ways a company...
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...According to an alternative view, propounded by the likes of Colin Mayer, of Oxford university’s Saïd Business School, or the economist and FT contributing editor John Kay, the truly “responsible” business...
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...Chief executive Marissa Mayer said the new board members will “help advance our strategic goals as Yahoo continues its transformation.”...
...Marissa Mayer, Yahoo chief executive, who is committed to slimming down the core business as she pursues a spin-off, said the board members’ “additional expertise” would help as “Yahoo continues its transformation...
...According to Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, the Koch brothers, the industrialists who underwrite many conservative causes, held a retreat last year for which they imported as “moderators” the hosts of the...
...A critical piece on the eurodollar market was written by the BIS’s Helmut W Mayer in November 1979....
...So let’s see what happens now Marissa Mayer’s competitive instincts have also come into play....
...And if I were Marissa Mayer at Yahoo … well, you probably know what I might do....
...for the mistaken (that’s my take, not theirs) decision to label Ms Mayer et al “SWAGs”: Silicon wives and girlfriends....
...Mayer may have found the key....
...In a world increasingly obsessed with Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer, it gives them a senior woman where before they had none, immediately making them seem more gender-friendly and PR-able....
...She should address it – face-on. ——————————————- vanessa.friedman@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/friedman...
...Influential opinions have played a role, including Milton Friedman’s 1970 New York Times article The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits....
...Eric Friedman, chairman at Skadden, says: “We recognised from day one that our culture was our advantage.”...
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