Although News Corporation plays down the impact of phone hacking on its broader corporate strategy, it is evident that the media conglomerate has emerged a transformed company with a different raison d'être, one less driven by Rupert Murdoch's whims and no longer the acquisition-heavy dealmaker it once was.
The BBC will struggle to make the argument for the licence fee in coming decades if swathes of the public, raised on YouTube fashion vloggers and Lad Bible vines, feel no nostalgia for the part the corporation played in their formative years beyond CBeebies' Mr Tumble.
And Fox, part of the News Corporation, played up its hegemony with a presentation that concentrated on big new shows like "Terra Nova," with a plot that spans millions of years, and big surprises like a coming makeover of the classic animated sitcom "The Flintstones".
New photos from Passion: Brian De Palma is remaking the the French erotic thriller Love Crime, about a powerful executive in a multinational corporation (played by Rachel McAdams) who hires a naïve young assistant (played by Noomi Rapace) and then promptly seduces her into some dangerous "games".
The study is uplifting and troubling at the same time: even Grant acknowledges the possibility of corporations playing off their employees' generous impulses, as a sop to compensate for other failings — poor pay or demeaning work.
Net neutrality not only encourages technological innovation and competition, but it also protects privacy and gives communities the power to elevate their voices, allowing them to tell their own stories without corporations playing favorites or controlling content.
All those factors, it argues, have become more relevant as multinational corporations play an increasingly dominant role in economic development.
"Definitely, for me, going through the process reinforced my sense of the role corporations play in our daily lives," she said.
Alaska Native corporations play a critical role in lifting up our disadvantaged Alaska Native communities, addressing our country's contracting needs and improving Alaska's economy.
More so than politicians, corporations play the long game, trying to engender loyalty for decades to come, and they're famously fixated on consumers in their 20s and 30s.
Bain's decision to enter China's fast-growing surveillance industry raises questions about the direct role that American corporations play in outfitting authoritarian governments with technology that can be used to repress their own citizens.
