Maximizing Shareholder Value Still Matters the Most

Reexamining the Friedman Doctrine, that The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits

Milton Friedman, 1976 Wikimedia Commons; money photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash

On a scale of 1(strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree), how would you rate the following statement: “The primary goal of every public company should be to maximize shareholder value?” We recently posed…