Kyle Williams holds a PhD in history from Rutgers University and is post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia where he is writing a book on the history of corporate social responsibility.
Is Whole Foods a kind of morality tale, a story of what happens when a company that started with good intentions gets too big too fast?
Just exactly who are the barbarians at the gate?
We can’t take CEOs’ high-flown gestures at face value.