This post is by Amol Mehra and Katie Shay On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court considered a case that strikes at the core of corporate social responsibility, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell).

On September 13, 1970, the economist Milton Friedman published “A Friedman Doctrine – The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits” as an op-ed in The New York Times. The ...

Is the social responsibility of business to increase its profits? Students analyze a text by Milton Friedman (“The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits”, The New York Times ...

Thus, a sense of social responsibility in science has emerged from time to time in spite of the fact that scientists were not prepared by their training to think about these issues.

Social responsibility guides decision-making throughout the organization. For these companies, their internal and external messaging is built on the aspects of social responsibility they have ...

Waxman quoted from Florida law, noting that the judge makes the crucial finding of aggravating factors “independently, and, quote, ‘notwithstanding the jury’s recommendation as to sentence.'” For most ...