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World’s Biggest Investor Tells C.E.O.s Purpose Is the ‘Animating Force’ for Profits

January 17, 2019

SOURCE

The New York Times
Andrew Ross Sorkin

Larry Fink, the investment manager who oversees nearly $6 trillion at BlackRock, set off a yearlong conversation among business leaders and policymakers last January when he wrote a letter to chief executives declaring that companies needed to do more than make profits.

Mr. Fink wrote that it was crucial that businesses also made “a positive contribution to society” — and that he planned to hold them to account.