ABSTRACT

It’s not usual for a conservative, financially driven, $10-billion-dollar-a-year multinational—a dependable, high performance company which has increased annual dividends paid to shareholders for 51 consecutive years (among the top five longest-running dividend increase records in the S&P 500 index)—to call together the largest corporate strategy summit in its history in order to focus on “the ten largest global problems facing humankind.” The key question: