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25 November, 2019
What is the purpose of a corporation? The Business Roundtable created a sensation with its statement describing the role of a corporation as going beyond serving its stockholders. Nearly 200 US CEOs committed their companies to serving multiple stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers and communities.
Join our panel of leading experts brought together for the first time by The Conference Board Governance & Sustainability Center, in a unique forum sponsored by the law firm of Cleary Gotttlieb Steen & Hamilton. Paul Washington, Executive Director of the Governance & Sustainability Center, is joined by Ken Bertsch, Executive Director of The Council of Institutional Investors; Charles Elson, Director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware; and Arthur Kohn, Partner at Cleary Gottlieb. They offer not only differing views on the legal, political and practical implications of the BRT’s statement, but also insights on what companies should consider doing now.
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