It was a clarion call to chief executives everywhere.In 2018, Laurence D. Fink, the longtime chief executive of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, urged corporate leaders to assess the […]
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Back to news homeGlobal Car Supply Chains Entangled With Abuses in Xinjiang, Report Says
Many of those suppliers run through China, which has become increasingly vital to the global auto industry and the United States, the destination for about a quarter of the auto […]
Oversight Board Criticizes Meta for Preferential Treatment
Meta was harshly criticized by an internal oversight board on Tuesday for policies that give celebrities, politicians and business partners special treatment compared with the vast majority of Facebook and […]
Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Under Elon Musk Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find
On Twitter itself, researchers said the increase in hate speech, antisemitic posts and other troubling content had begun before Mr. Musk loosened the service’s content rules. That suggested that a […]
Elon Musk Takes On Apple’s Power, Setting Up a Clash
SAN FRANCISCO — “What’s going on here @tim_cook?” Elon Musk tweeted on Monday to Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, igniting a spat between the world’s richest man and […]
Have the Anticapitalists Reached Harvard Business School?
At Harvard, in “Capitalism and the State,” colloquially known as CATS, Ms. Spar asked her students to flip their name cards sideways if they felt globalization was ultimately a good […]
U.S. Blocks Dominican Republic Sugar Imports, Citing Forced Labor
Charity Ryerson, the executive director at Corporate Accountability Lab, a Chicago-based human rights organization, said the restrictions would be a powerful impetus for Central Romana to improve conditions for its […]
Elon Musk Is Tweeting Through a Tide of Criticism
Under pressure and facing a wave of criticism, Elon Musk has increasingly turned to his favorite release valve: Twitter.Since Saturday, Mr. Musk, the world’s richest man and the new owner […]
In Fashion Industry, a Fine Line Between Collaboration and Collusion
In the spring of 2020, during the earliest and darkest months of the coronavirus pandemic, a group of clothing executives and designers began talking — tentatively — about upending some […]
Why Nike Can Afford to Drop Kyrie Irving, Exerts Say
Nike is facing plenty of challenges this year.A glut of sneakers and sports clothing has built up in recent months, leading to concerns that Nike will have to heavily mark […]