1 min readMay 19, 2016
It was our founder who’d called out Nike CEO Phil Knight on campus at UNC in Chapel Hill around 1998 over the issue of Asian sweatshops. UNC’s legendary status in sport was not to be dismissed lightly. “I only wrote the invitation” Terry Hallman told me, “but Phil Knight showed up within days, ahead of many other commitments”.
Two years earlier, in a paper distributed on the campus of UNC he’d asked a question about the purpose of business:
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