CEO’s Corner

There wasn’t much good news at this year’s Stakeholder Dialogue, an annual evening for thought sponsored by the Koch Chair in Business Ethics at the University of St. Thomas and co-sponsored by MCCR. But Juliet Schor, this year’s principal speaker and author of The Overworked American, did make one observation that holds out a glimmer of hope.

In which of the following countries are workers most likely to have a substantial ownership stake in their companies: a) Russia, b) France, c) China, d) United States? Surprisingly, perhaps, it is the unabashedly capitalist nation, the United States, in which employees hold the largest direct stake in the companies in which they work.