"People would see his chances improving and think, Oh, how can I capitalize on this?" Canopy Growth, which describes itself as "a world leading diversified cannabis company," is one of many trade-able enterprises that are taking advantage of the newly fertile corporate ground for marijuana in North America.
Even non-tech firms have jumped on the bandwagon: in May Fielmann, a big German optics retailer, launched an incubator.Many of these corporate breeding grounds for start-ups are in Berlin.
Robertson, himself mooted as a possible chairman, along with his former Goldman Sachs colleague John Thornton, has already been lobbied by shareholders who do not want Geoghegan to fill the chairman's seat on corporate governance grounds.
The market for high-yield ("junk") corporate debt ground to a halt in December.
Sources around and familiar with the Redmond area — Microsoft's corporate stomping ground — that I spoke to generally indicated that morale was largely intact on the company's main campus.
In our schools, competition for access to elite preschools, for grades, for social status, in sports, over positions of leadership, and for admission to exclusive colleges transforms one of our most basic institutions for fostering community, ethics and learning into competitive, individualistic corporate training-grounds.
Conservatives, on the other hand, proved more favourable to old institutions, particularly the Roman Catholic Church, and to traditional visions of society as grounded in corporate groups.
On Tuesday, the Loews corporate jet was grounded in Denver.
If you wanted to mount an argument against corporate personhood on the grounds that a corporation cannot have a moral compass, this will do the trick.
He argues that corporations have corporate internal decision (CID) structures that provide sufficient grounds for attributing moral agency to them.
