Situated in the heart of Boston with beautiful views; staffed by friendly professionals with advanced degrees; stocked with plenty of fresh-brewed coffee and free lunches; offering glassed-in offices for making calls, New Directions feels like an exclusive corporate retreat — except that the participants have lost their corporations.
There is a long line of C.E.O.s who have treated their corporations as private piggy banks.
Since when has profit obsession been something Americans or their corporations felt a need to hide?
Extreme self-interest is what most investors demand from their corporations.
The issue of franchisees' relationships with their corporations has come under scrutiny from multiple avenues.
These are, in effect, people without national loyalties at all, not even dual ones, since they identify with their corporations, and their corporations have offices, plants, workers, suppliers, and consumers all over the world.
Those convictions just happen to line up with what their corporations are lobbying for as well, he said.
In fact, it was the C.E.O.s of Enron, Tyco, HealthSouth, and Peregrine, among others, who looted their corporations and shareholders.
A recent survey found that a majority of directors have had some previous experience with their corporations.
And organizations that fight discrimination and inequality often depend on large gifts from these individuals and their corporations.
Australia, Switzerland, Germany, Britain and the European Commission all strongly protested the exercise of jurisdiction over their corporations in the South African apartheid litigation.
