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The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.

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Norman Lear
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: July 27
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Norman Milton Lear
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