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This week, a group of top business leaders resigned from presidential advisory panels in response to President Trump’s statements on the violence in Charlottesville. Yale SOM’s Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld puts these dramatic events in historical context and discusses the conundrum faced by leaders of public corporations who take seriously their role as citizens.

AUGUST 16, 2017