Socially responsible business may be on the rise, but in an age of record returns to capital and a level of inequality that would make 19th-century robber barons blush, let’s not get carried away.
As early voting begins across the country, it’s not just grassroots organizers who are eager to get out the vote. Companies like Patagonia and Airbnb are reminding customers to exercise their rights at the polls on Election Day.
With great fanfare, Kickstarter has restructured as a public benefit corporation, with some changes in Kickstarter’s public reporting on its social responsibility, but how much that changes the crowdfunding platform is hard to discern.
Alliant International’s shift from nonprofit to a “public benefit corporation” marks growing shifts from universities.
