Beware the dead hand of the controlling founderWeWork offers little protection for investors if its CEO’s genius fadesBusiness in Hong Kong needs to stay strongBeijing wants to make companies impose obedience to China on protesting employeesBusiness must act on a new corporate purposeCompanies must realign incentives and define targets beyond profitsThe plague of long-running feuds in family businessesInfighting is almost always value-destroying for any outside shareholdersGuilt is good for corporate chief executivesCompanies must be pressed to turn words into action on inequality and climate changeWeWork’s magical thinking disguises a flawed modelStripped of tech glitter, the company’s strategy is unprofitable and unoriginalMore from this SeriesDrive the point home on the gender pay gapLetter from Christopher Sheeron, Washington, DC, USShareholder-first creed will be difficult to changeLetter from Todd H Baker, Columbia University, USYou are right to be sceptical of business call for changeLetter from Charles Taylor, London, UK
Beware the dead hand of the controlling founderWeWork offers little protection for investors if its CEO’s genius fadesBusiness in Hong Kong needs to stay strongBeijing wants to make companies impose obedience to China on protesting employeesBusiness must act on a new corporate purposeCompanies must realign incentives and define targets beyond profitsThe plague of long-running feuds in family businessesInfighting is almost always value-destroying for any outside shareholdersGuilt is good for corporate chief executivesCompanies must be pressed to turn words into action on inequality and climate changeWeWork’s magical thinking disguises a flawed modelStripped of tech glitter, the company’s strategy is unprofitable and unoriginalMore from this SeriesDrive the point home on the gender pay gapLetter from Christopher Sheeron, Washington, DC, USShareholder-first creed will be difficult to changeLetter from Todd H Baker, Columbia University, USYou are right to be sceptical of business call for changeLetter from Charles Taylor, London, UK
