Why Corporations Must Fly the Flag of Social Responsibility
I must applaud the response from those corporations that put social responsibility ahead of the bottom line. Retailers such as Walmart, Sears, Target, and Amazon immediately pulled Confederate merchandise from shelves in the wake of the shootings. They demonstrated the courage and conscience to remove representations of racial intolerance painful to legions of stakeholders—employees, managers, corporate directors, suppliers, and, most especially, customers.