Why Capitalists Need to Save Democracy

Rebecca Henderson, professor at Harvard Business School, says that both capitalism and democracy are failing us. She argues that it will take public and private leaders working together to simultaneously fix these two systems because free markets don't function well without free politics and healthy government needs corporate support to survive. She is calling on the business community to take the first step. Henderson is the author of the upcoming book "Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire." And the March Big Idea article, "The Business Case for Saving Democracy."

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Why Capitalists Need to Save Democracy

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A conversation with Harvard Business School professor Rebecca Henderson on how companies and governments need to work together to fix what they’ve broken.

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March 10, 2020

Rebecca Henderson, professor at Harvard Business School, says that both capitalism and democracy are failing us. She argues that it will take public and private leaders working together to simultaneously fix these two systems because free markets don’t function well without free politics, and healthy government needs corporate support to survive. She is calling on the business community to take the first step. Henderson is the author of the upcoming book Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, and the March Big Idea article, “The Business Case for Saving Democracy.”

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