Corporations

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

• By Dwyer Gunn

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

• By Rick Paulas

Remote work leads to increased productivity and longer hours.

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By Katie Fustich

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

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By Rick Paulas

Because they can.

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By Rick Paulas

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.

• By Rick Paulas

A lesson for public officials courting Amazon.

• By Rick Paulas

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

• By Rick Paulas

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.

• By Kate Wheeling

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.

• By Rick Paulas

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.

• By Rick Paulas

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 was meant to protect artists and programmers, but it has ended up preventing consumers from fixing their products.

• By Rick Paulas

The 2004 holiday didn't work as intended, and there's little reason to believe another one will be any different.

• By Rick Paulas

A fierce group of local activists, including a cappella group Raging Grannies, brought about a deciding vote. Though Portland will likely lose $4.5 million annually starting in 2020, its city council will have more time to address other pressing issues, including homelessness.

• By Rick Paulas

Is America really the "highest taxed country in the world" for businesses? A new report shows that the answer's not as clear as it seems.

• By Rick Paulas

B Lab markets their do-gooder stamp of approval as a sign of global citizenship and transparency. In fact, it's a half-measure signifying nothing.

• By Rick Paulas

Does the corporate boycott of states pursuing controversial “religious freedom” bills undercut critiques of the American campaign finance system?

• By Jared Keller

It's much easier for environmentalists to take aim at multinational corporations than at peasant farmers.

• By Francie Diep