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Can Capitalism Be Made Better By Corporate Social Responsibility? Nancy Koehn, August 23, 2019, Audio, "This week, nearly 200 CEOs pledged to discard a foundational tenet of business: that corporations exist only to serve their shareholders. Chief executives from the Business Roundtable — including leaders of Apple, JP Morgan Chase, and Amazon, argued this week that the purpose of a corporation is to promote "an economy that serves all Americans." Nancy Koehn, historian at Harvard Business School, said this declaration is a direct response to the public's growing voice in holding corporations accountable."