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Paul Polman: B Corps, Climate Change, and the Future of Capitalism

Next Economy Now: For the Benefit of All Life

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We Need to Provide Space to Run the Business for the Longer Term

You cannot solve the issues of food security or poverty or equitable growth if if you live under the myopic pressure of quarterly reporting and shareholder primacy it's driving businesses into the ground. I needed to send a message that it was going to be different so under the principle of the first day they hire you they can't fire youI discussed obviously with others but we stopped quarterly reporting we stopped giving guidance, and we started implementing different systems here in terms of executive pay and other things.

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