A God Bowl Championship Series? Moral Majority U. & Big Time Football

Published November 11th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

Like spectators at a Vatican conclave, only those devoted to fashion in uniforms stuck around for the end of Boston College vs. Notre Dame. The God (Awful) Bowl…

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‘Words of Wisdom’: Talk at the SRI Conference

Published October 4th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

‘Words of Wisdom’ from Peter D. Kinder Co-Founder, KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. Copyright © 2012 by Peter D. Kinder. All rights reserved. First Affirmative Financial Network Conference on Sustainable,…

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The Isolated Board: A Perspective on Governance Today

Published June 29th, 2011 by Peter Kinder

Boston College Law School & The Boston College Carroll School of Management’s Center for Corporate Citizenship Directors’ Intensive Program on Corporate Governance Panel: Beyond the Quarterly Report: Managing Risk and…

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Alan Greenspan on Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’

Published April 3rd, 2011 by Peter Kinder

Former Walloomsac Inn, Bennington, Vt. 4/2011 They say we should beware of people who buy ink by the barrel, usually meaning journalists and media barons. But there are other owner-operators…

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Business — A Profession? An Old Controversy Reignited

Published November 21st, 2010 by Peter Kinder

A post today on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation signals that a century-old controversy has revived. Ben W. Heineman, Jr., posted ‘Management as a…

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Brandeis: ‘The Right to Regularity of Employment’

Published September 4th, 2010 by Peter Kinder

A thought for Labor Day from Louis Brandeis (1930): For every employee who is steady in his work, there shall be steady work. The right to regularity in employment is…

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Brandeis on Liquor Sales: License & Regulate

Published September 3rd, 2010 by Peter Kinder

In 1891, future Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis represented Massachusetts liquor dealers. They were fighting draconian proposals for regulating liquor sales. Brandeis opened his presentation with this summary of his…

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