{"id":106609,"date":"2019-08-19T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/19\/leading-us-bosses-group-drops-principle-of-shareholder-first\/"},"modified":"2019-08-19T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:12:46","slug":"leading-us-bosses-group-drops-principle-of-shareholder-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106609","title":{"rendered":"Leading US bosses\u2019 group drops principle of shareholder-first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Roundtable urges companies to consider environment and workersOne of the most influential US business lobby groups has abandoned its central ethos that the interests of shareholders should always come first \u2013 in a reversal of the rules that have driven US capitalism for decades.The Business Roundtable (BRT), whose members include the chief executives of huge corporations ranging from Apple to ExxonMobil, urged companies on Monday to consider the environment and workers\u2019 wellbeing alongside the pursuit of profits, in a new \u201cstatement of purpose\u201d which ranks shareholders as just one of five key stakeholders, alongside customers, workers, suppliers and communities. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/aug\/19\/leading-us-bosses-group-drops-principle-of-shareholder-first\" target=\"_blank\">Leading US bosses\u2019 group drops principle of shareholder-first<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Roundtable urges companies to consider environment and workersOne of the most influential US business lobby groups has abandoned its central ethos that the interests of shareholders should always come first \u2013 in a reversal of the rules that have driven US capitalism for decades.The Business Roundtable (BRT), whose members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}