Patrick: Businesses can take moral stances without hurting commercial relationships
Deval Patrick · How I Built Resilience: Live with Deval Patrick · Jun 25, 2020 · at 8:15
Former Massachusetts Governor and impact investor Deval Patrick discusses corporate responses to racial injustice with Guy Raz.
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“But it seems to me, you know, we could move a lot more away from right and left And in the direction of right and wrong, and businesses could do that without jeopardizing their commercial relationships.”
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