Why we should be wary of do-gooder CEOs

Published March 22, 2017 10:00am ET



Visit the website of any large corporation and the majority of its message will be how it gives back to communities or helps the environment. These companies not only provide you with an essential product, but you are assured that you are doing your part because you purchased a good or service that will make a difference.

But what if, under the sheet of corporate responsibility was a company’s dirty laundry and wrong doing? What if a company was writing UN Sustainable Development Goals while at the same time denying for ten years that it had dumped toxic waste outside their plant in India? Or what about a company that boasts about its local produce but at the same time is responsible for a variety of food poisoning cases, including E. coli?

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