Using natural language processing, we identify corporate goals stated in the shareholder letters of the 150 largest companies in the United States from 1955 to 2020. Corporate goals have proliferated, from less than one on average in 1955 to more than 7 in 2020. While in 1955, profit...

Ziele und Absichten von Unternehmen, öffentlichen Körperschaften und Akteuren im Hinblick auf den öffentlichen Auftrag -- Risiken und Auswirkungen von Korruptionshandlungen -- Empirischen Erhebung über Ziele und Auswirkungen von Korruption.

Shareholders want a firm's objective function to place some weight on consumer welfare, motivated by both self-interested and altruistic motivations. Firms have a unique technology for improving consumer welfare: lowering inefficient price markups, which increases consumer welfare more than it...