Instead, to the delight of the corporate old guard, the trial began this week of Takafumi Horie, the swashbuckling former president of livedoor, a sprawling internet company, who pleaded not guilty to fraud charges.
Along with Ed Balls and Chuka Umunna, Alexander has formed a kind of corporate praetorian guard around Miliband to pacify the City and CBI and rein in the Labour leader's instincts for building a new economic model in a post-crash world.
Behind this effort is an alarmed corporate old guard that still runs the Democratic Party establishment and their allies in the corporate think tanks and the media, with a special nod to NBC/MSNBC, which is owned and operated by General Electric and Comcast.
Corporate security guards have started to make a discreet appearance as the protests escalate.
Up again and you're at the corporate boxes guarded by some of the 400 security staff.
The chances of a backlash, especially from the corporate old-guard, will depend on whether Mr Horie continues to live on the edge, or whether he has just walked over it.
He took on Shizuka Kamei, one of the staunchest opponents of Mr Koizumi within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and lost.While many locals, especially the smirking corporate old-guard, seem already to have judged Mr Horie and condemned him, he still has support.
Minutes later, corporate security guards showed up at his corner office and observed him load his modest belongings into a cardboard box.
Still, many companies (and others) continue to balk at the prospect of sharing "their" data, which is an understandable response given the reflex to guard corporate interests.
Wal-Mart is certainly not the only company, or even the first, to investigate its employees, a practice used widely in corporate America to guard against fraud and protect trade secrets.
