Imagining a better world: how are companies transforming capitalism?
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“The factory cannot look only at the profit index. It must distribute
wealth, culture, services, democracy”. This is what Adriano Olivetti, one of
the most enlightened Italian entrepreneurs, claimed more than seventy
years ago, concretely demonstrating that a different model of value creation
was possible in the business sector, aimed not only at generating relevant
economic return for shareholders, but also at contributing to the lives of
employees, local communities, suppliers, customers, society at large.... continued
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