WAT: Is a company's only duty to its shareholders?

Strategy

medium20 min0 submissions

Scenario

A written ability test, twenty minutes, roughly 300 words.

"A company's only duty is to its shareholders. Everything else is public relations."

Your task

Argue for or against. Take a clear position, support it with distinct reasons, and address the strongest objection to your own view. Roughly 300 words.

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How you'll be graded

100 points, 60% to pass.

argument35
evidence20
position25
expression20

Hint

Reveal suggested structure

Avoid the two easy failure modes: a list of stakeholder platitudes, or an economics-textbook restatement. The strongest essays make the argument concrete — where long-run shareholder interest and other duties actually diverge, and what a firm does then.