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Can Walmart marshal its business partners to help curb gun violence?

Walmart has been thrust to the epicenter of the roiling U.S. gun violence debate.

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CSR/Sustainability end-of-month rapid-fire news trifecta

July is ending with a swirl of corporate social responsibility/sustainable development big ideas and actions with serious long-term implications.

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Amazon’s new employee training program: Scalable to a “reskilling revolution”?

Amazon’s new $700 million “reskilling” of employees could generate major ripples in American business and well beyond.

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Conservative columnist: To really aid refugees – Don’t build a wall; help rebuild their nations

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens today addressed the tragic global refugees crisis “An Immigration Policy Worse than Trump’s”. Skewering such policies in Europe, Africa and the United States, he offered this prescription for America:

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Will the American “political center” form and prevail in 2020? Here’s how it might

(This week we simply present, without comment, American political wisdom from a centrist journalist.)

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“Surveillance Capitalism”: Should we be worried?

Maybe we should all be worried about “Surveillance Capitalism”. Is it coming? Is it already here?

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Business groups have just been heard loud + clear on U.S. tariffs/trade and abortion

What was business leaders’ role in President Trump’s abrupt flip on imposing tariffs on Mexico?

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Resolved: “Europe’s Green surge matters more than the rise of the far right”

That is the admittedly debatable position espoused — with impressive, if lonely, logic — by Martin Sandbau, Economics Commentator at The Financial Times https://on.ft.com/2KuP2BF

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CEOs risk ignoring new workforce transformation: employees’ social issue activism

“The strength and speed of staff unrest has come as a stunning development …

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A US-China trade war? There’s much more at stake for the world than just “trade”

Depending on the day, hour and mood of the American President, we are now in a U.S.- China trade war — or not.

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U.S. isolation on critical global issues now extending to online extremism

Its name: “The Christchurch Call”, channeling the March 15th terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Facebook, “a threat to the economy and democracy” must be broken up: Co-founder

Breakup.

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Want to “reform capitalism”? Get ready to vote via “democratic capitalism”

“In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve.”

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Rising: Capitalists’ voices in support of help for the Middle Class *

It wasn’t on the scale of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of a Catholic church in 1517. But last week, in “UPDATE: Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism needs urgent reform”, it seemed to be in the same category.

It wasn’t on the scale of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of a Catholic church in 1517. But last week, in “UPDATE: Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism needs urgent reform”, it seemed to be in the same category.

It wasn’t on the scale of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of a Catholic church in 1517. But last week, in “UPDATE: Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism needs urgent reform”, it seemed to be in the same category.

It wasn’t on the scale of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of a Catholic church in 1517. But last week, in “UPDATE: Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism needs urgent reform”, it seemed to be in the same category.

It wasn’t on the scale of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of a Catholic church in 1517. But last week, in “UPDATE: Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism needs urgent reform”, it seemed to be in the same category.

It wasn’t on the scale of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of a Catholic church in 1517. But last week, in “UPDATE: Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism needs urgent reform”, it seemed to be in the same category.

It wasn’t on the scale of Martin Luther posting his 95 theses on the door of a Catholic church in 1517. But last week, in “UPDATE: Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism needs urgent reform”, it seemed to be in the same category.

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The Case for a Green New Deal link with Sustainable Business

First, let’s stop shouting nonsense: Capitalism is “dead”,” wounded” or “irredeemable”

(some left-wing politicians).

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