LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE
0:00 / 0:00

As several US Supreme Court decisions lay out, corporations have certain rights like those of individual citizens’. The court’s logic: corporations are made up of people and it would be a violation of employees’ first amendment rights not to allow them to organize, think and act collectively. But corporations are like people in another way: each has its own identity. Sometimes it’s the identity of a charismatic founder like Steve Jobs. Other times that identity evolves from the diversity of....