Read the following statement from the Business Roundtable on the “Purpose of a Corporation” [Click on “Download Statement on the Purpose of A Corporation”]-
(https://opportunity.businessroundtable.org/ourcommitment/)
Now pick 3 corporate signatories from the above PDF, review their CSR Reports, Integrated Reports, and Sustainability Reports (you can easily find these on the main corporate websites, usually under “Investor Relations”) and determine whether their statements align with their actual practices.
Provide 1-2 paragraphs for each of your picks to explain (please provide specific examples and not broad statements; for example, “Company X says this in Report Y, however, Company X is currently being sued for poisoning drinking water in Company X v. Poisoned Folks, XXX 2nd DCA 2020″).
Also, if you are interested in learning more about how the various Civil Rights and Liberty movements (Racial/Religious/Ethnic/Gender/LGBT movements as well as 2nd Amendment, 4th Amendment and variations on Due Process and Privacy) spawned from capitalism and the fight for corporate rights, I encourage you to check out Professor Winkler’s great book, “We the Corporations” [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/business/dealbook/review-we-the-corporations.html].
