Or consider the vice-president of sustainability at a major global corporation tasked with ensuring that the firm purchases palm oil from responsible suppliers.
Shen Narayanasamy, the human rights campaign director for GetUp and the founder of No Business in Abuse, said corporations tasked with running the processing centres were pulling out because of "overwhelming" evidence of mistreatment and abuse.
In the event of conflict or serious harm to the environment, animals or people, where corporate irresponsibility is occurring, it is manifestly illogical to leave to the corporation the task of self-regulating.
Those who weren't breathlessly reporting news developments, it seemed, were taking News Corporation to task.
In April, the United States government gave the Bechtel Corporation the task of repairing the Iraqi electricity system.
Platforms take the lead in dealing with local government and nonprofit organizations and leave to the corporation the task of maintaining its overall cohesion and image.
Neubauer and Aramark are sitting squarely in the middle of one of the hottest growth areas in U.S. business: outsourcing-the contracting out by schools, hospitals, prisons and corporations of tasks unrelated to their main missions.
Feminists have a proud history of taking state institutions and corporations to task.
More recently, though, new corporations have tasked themselves with being both Alfred P. Sloan and Bob Dylan: collaborative venues of the sort that Drucker prized but also freethinkers like those of the "Whole Earth Catalog".
She also forced Mr. Riordan to spend two or three hours a day, two days a week, raising tax-exempt contributions from individuals and corporations, a task he called "a pain".
