new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation signed by 181 CEOs who commit to lead their companies for the bene t of all stakeholders – customers, employees, suppliers, communities and shareholders.
Governance. Each version of the document issued since 1997 has endorsed principles of shareholder primacy – that corporations exist principally to serve shareholders. With today’s announcement, the new Statement supersedes previous statements and outlines a modern standard for corporate responsibility.
lives are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to solve a problem, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to generate another one; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
system or implement an algorithm, but I create systems for the highest bene t of society, who will have to use it and who will store their most con dential information within. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to solve adequately the problem at hand.
with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those experts in the eld as well as those not initiated or knowledgeable in the matters of code and software.
science and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the nest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of solving the most intricate problems I am faced with.