Almost everything about business today is political, in the sense that it requires consideration of a wide range of often controversial ethical, social, and ecological issues. Choices that may have been clear-cut in purely economic terms—such as what business to be in, where to do business, whom to do business with, and even how to price goods or hire and promote employees—can now easily become complicated by politics.
A version of this article appeared in the November–December 2022 issue of Harvard Business Review.