Today, I will be joining a group of business and nonprofit leaders, media strategists, and policy makers at a Conference on Inclusive Capitalism admirably catalyzed and guided by Lady de Rothschild. The Inclusive Capitalism movement is one of a number of laudatory initiatives in response to the “serious dislocations caused by developments in the capitalism of the last 30 years” (for more, see www.inclusivecapitalism.org), including increases in income inequality, financial scandals, historically high unemployment, and short-term approaches to managing companies. The conference’s central question revolves around the growing recognition that the free enterprise system does not operate in a vacuum, and that it thus must be animated by a conscious regard for all its present and future stakeholders.
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