Can Companies Force Themselves To Do Good? [newyorker.com]
By Nick Romeo, Illustration: Jo Zixuan Zhou, The Washington Post, January 10, 2022 A bout five years ago, Kate Emery, the founder of a successful digital-consulting firm in Farmington, Connecticut, was considering retirement. With nearly fifty employees and annual revenues around ten million dollars, her company, the Walker Group, was quite attractive to potential buyers. If she sold to the highest bidder, she might easily make millions. And yet she didn’t want to sell. Selling, she knew,...