Seth Klarman has a crucial message for business: It’s a choice between long-term prosperity for everyone and instant gratification—the hit-and-run greed of short-tenure management, for destructive leaders who join the game only long enough to take the quick money. […]

Ron Shaich is on the road proselytizing for a new kind of leadership focused on long-term stability and growth. He is joining the growing chorus of thought leaders calling for a new paradigm in the C suite free of the shareholder primacy’s short-term pressures. […]

A new way of teaching could continue to instruct students on how to run a business successfully, but train to keep an eye on the societal costs, on the well-being of its other stakeholders. […]

Optimax earns profit through company-wide creativity and the sharing of that profit with those who are responsible for making the small and large creative decisions up and down the org chart. It's a model for how to make customer satisfaction and employee creativity the heart of the mission. […]

Companies may be finally waking up to the need for personalized service—in the realization that the individual customer is the heart and soul of success. If you listen, the customer—one unique customer at a time, not a demographic segment—will tell you what they need from you. […]