Archive - Purposeful Capitalism

General Electric - Part 3: After the Party

Two decades after Welch stepped down, General Electric was broken into three independent companies, each going its separate ways. What happened to the…

May 20 •

General Electric - Part 2: The Welch Era

In twenty years, Jack Welch transformed GE into the world's most valuable company, adding more than $400 billion in shareholder value. Through the…

May 1 •

April 2025

General Electric - Part 1

The first of a three-part series on General Electric - the iconic American conglomerate that transformed our lives, became the world's most valuable…

Apr 20 •

December 2024

The silent march of progress against death

The miracle of falling mortality rates and what it tells us about the nature of progress.

Dec 4, 2024 •

November 2024

COP29 and the problem with the mainstream narratives on Climate Change

To solve climate change, the narrative needs to move beyond finger-pointing and towards encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship

Nov 24, 2024 •

October 2024

Enlightened Businesses - Part 4: Costco Wholesale

The story of a retail giant whose success comes from a relentless focus on lowering prices for customers and treating workers with respect.

Oct 20, 2024 •

August 2024

Enlightened Businesses - Part 3: Timpson

This is the story of how a chain of shoe repair shops became a huge success story on the British high streets and helped to reintegrate more than 600…

Aug 14, 2024 •

July 2024

Enlightened Businesses - Part 2, Eastman Kodak

The story of a monopoly that lasted for one hundred years, enlightened treatments of workers, and how it all came crashing down.

Jul 25, 2024 •

Enlightened Businesses[1] – Part 1, Lincoln Electric

The story of how an American manufacturing business became the global leader of its industry by keeping manufacturing jobs in America and offering its…

Jul 3, 2024 •

June 2024

Progress and Capitalism

Can capitalism make a positive contribution to humanity?

Jun 16, 2024 •

This is Purposeful Capitalism.

Jun 16, 2024 •

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