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...fooled by the fair trade, cruelty-free exterior. Mackey has a darker, not so crunchy inside. He despises unions and prides himself on having kept them out of all 183 of his company??s stores. “Instead of embracing the notion of the ‘expanding pie’ vision of capitalism—more for everyone, or win-win,” Mackey argues, “they [unions] frequently embrace the zero-sum philosophy of win-lose.” Aware that union busting is illegal, Mackey persuaded the employees...
...Mackey’s rapid ascent to minor celebrity status—fueled by his company??s even faster climbing share price—has provoked a flurry of profiles in publications like The Economist and USA Today, all puzzling over his seemingly contradictory views. Can you have a social conscience and love the market as well? Certainly. Can you do it without falling into a contradiction? That is more difficult to answer...
...Libertarians are not too often disposed to cuddle up to a tree. For most, free markets unhindered by governmental interference—labor regulations, taxes, and the like—take precedent over old growth forests. Managers do not usually build cost-inefficient solar panels to minimize their company??s environmental impact. They adhere to Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman’s famous saying that a company??s only “social obligation is to increase its profits.” To them, incantations of the collective good are just sweet-sounding claptrap...
During the past four years, Houghton made fast and dramatic changes to the company??s structure, closing more than a dozen plants and cutting the number of employees almost in half—moves that revived the use of his unflattering nickname, “Dark Angel...
After commencement this June, all three seniors will move to Dallas, Texas to set up LONO’s headquarters. The location will allow them to work at the Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, Orenstein said, adding that the company??s North Texas locale will be in a region that is “becoming a hotbed of medical invention...