Professor Alex Edmans on How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose And Profit

Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez · Jun 5, 2020 · 49m

In this episode, I talk with Professor Alex Edmans from the London Business School. He's one of the world's leading academics on company purpose, social value and profits. In fact, he's just come out with a book on the subject called "Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit". We covered lots on the podcast including:

1. Is a company's sole purpose to deliver profits?

2. How markets do not correctly price in social value in the short-term

3. The problem with restrictions on executive pay

4. Could hedge fund activism be helpful?

5. How the management styles of…