This research after the Centennial Business Summit in October 2008. Many voices in the press and in public forums were critizing business and calling for stronger role for government, but the researches findings seemed to lead in a different direction. Itr was not that government couldn't play a valuable role, it could. Indeed, it had to. But many of the business leaders who participated in the project pointed squarely to the limitations of governments-especially the democratically elected governments tha t characterized the nations of the economically developed world. the research urged to consider how entrepreneurs would think about the difficults challenges taxing the systems, studied how companies were addressing these problems, learned that some companies were helping by the very way the did business. They were bringing tens of millions of improverished people into the market economy. they were working with government to manage migration. And they were finding ways to conserve energy and reduce their carbon footprint while increasing sales and profits. If some companies could actually lead in the resolution of major problems that threathmed the capitalist market system, more companies could and should.
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