Corporations

We're highlighting stories from our archives on the effectiveness, implications, and origins of corporate boycotts and strikes.

More than ever before, employees are staging walkouts and boycotts to protest their own companies' business operations.

Burger King is depressed, Netflix is horny, and Chase is mocking its customers for being broke. Why?

Corporations with large carbon footprints tend to undermine global efforts to solve the climate crisis, according to climate advocates.

The pattern holds even when their firm is performing well.

People opposed to Amazon's plan to locate its second North American headquarters in New York City protest at the courthouse in Queens on November 26th, 2018.

New research suggests that corporations pollute more when there aren't local papers to hold them accountable.

Two prominent business leaders point to the dangers of quarterly earnings guidance. Research suggests they're right to be concerned.

It's not surprising that corporations have found ways to exploit human kindness for profits.

Remote work leads to increased productivity and longer hours.

Amazon Echo is always listening. Amazon Key invites companies into your home. But who exactly is surveilling whom?

Companies can reach into their archives to reaffirm their culture and demonstrate a differentiating legacy.

Environmental bonds guarantee corporate payment for clean-up and encourage more cautious use of land.

Corporations can help apply positive pressure for social change, but their profit motives should make us wary of letting them displace moral leaders.

While it inspired new regulations, executives have mostly found a way around them.

Because they can.

Corporations that have higher numbers of employment cases brought against them spend more money on lobbyists, who help influence courts and change labor laws.

The ritual can reveal much more about government-business relations than you'd think, according to a new analysis.

If the old corporate goal was to claim as many assets and employees as possible, the new one is to hand production off to external vendors and contract labor.

A lesson for public officials courting Amazon.

Universities need corporations for research funding, and the political will for an alternative solution is limited.

Hundreds of companies have pledged to cut commodities grown on deforested land from their supply chains, but few have turned those promises into successful policies.

Rulings in recent years have effectively forced consumers to file class actions in the region where the corporation is based or to disaggregate claims into separate filings.

Fines for companies have risen over the last 25 years, but the number of prosecutions has remained roughly the same, according to information compiled by a University of Virginia law professor and his research team.