Fixing Capitalism: Michael Porter And Robert Reich

Business guru Michael Porter and former labor secretary Robert Reich on how to fix what ails contemporary capitalism.

Business - American business - has been under a very critical microscope lately. On the crash, the environment, the jobless recovery and more, a country of boosters has become, widely, a country of skeptics about how big chunks of capitalism are working. Business super-guru Michael Porter says American business has brought it on itself. And it has to change. To very clearly – more clearly - create value for itself and the whole society. It’s the new way to profit, he says.

A discussion with former Labor secretary Robert Reich and Michael Porter on fixing capitalism.
- Tom Ashbrook
Guests:

Michael Porter, world-renowned expert on how companies and nations compete. He is director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, where he is a University Professor. His article “Creating Share Value: How to reinvent capitalism – and unleash a wave of innovation and growth” is the cover story of the January/February issue of Harvard Business Review.

Robert Reich, he was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton. He is now a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley. His books include "Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life" and "Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future."