Did the Business Roundtable just sound the death knell for shareholder primacy?

By Judith Samuelson

The Business Roundtable, one of the most powerful pro-business lobbying groups in the United States, released a new policy statement today that demonstrates just how much business thinking has shifted in the last decade about how to measure the success of a company. In its August 2019 Statement on the Purpose of the Corporation, the Business Roundtable’s membership—more than 180 CEOs of companies that together employ over 10 million people—and its chairman, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, closed the chapter that puts returns to shareholders at the center of the license to operate.”…

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