????哈佛商學院教授比爾?喬治指出，今天美國也有一些“企業公民”的表率。比如百事可樂（Pepsi）的CEO盧英德一直致力于推動百事的健康食品，而且至少在表面上致力于控制美國日益失控的醫療成本。另外喬治還點名表揚了聯合利華（Unilever）的CEO保羅?波羅曼，因為波爾曼采取了若干舉措，以減少聯合利華對環境的破壞。另外喬治還向可口可樂（Coca-Cola）的CEO穆泰康表示了敬意，因為他成功地減少了公司的水資源使用量，而且一直在為解決水資源短缺問題奔走呼吁。

????波特在上周四發言說：“（作為企業領袖，）讓我們在職權范圍內，盡我們的所能。如果我們這樣做了，那么至少在某些層面上，我們可以改變這個世界。”

????那政客們又如何呢？喬治認為，華盛頓至少在2017年前不會出臺什么有價值的政策。這并不是說政府就無力回天了，只是這并不是哈佛商學院研究的課題。盡管哈佛商學院也給白宮開出了很多政治藥方，但諾利亞稱，哈佛商學院沒有任何興趣跳進政治爭論的圈子。他表示，哈佛的目標是長期的，短期內不會對政客進行游說。

????當然，從某些方面看，這也很可惜。哈佛商學院給出的提議之所以高明，有部分原因是由于它不像某些大企業經常拋出的游說議案那樣只是狹隘地關注某些事情。美國勞工總會與產業勞工組織的政策主任兼特別顧問達蒙?西弗斯表示，支持他的選民也可以支持哈佛商學院的一些商業觀點。如果勞工和業界可以向這些觀點施加相當的影響力的話——尤其是對稅務改革等問題施加影響力，那么美國的政治進程或許會有更多希望。不過就目前來說，我們還是祈禱即將到來的債務限額談判能夠取得比上次更好的結果吧。

????譯者：樸成奎

????There are a few shining examples of corporate citizenry out there today, says Harvard Business School Professor Bill George. He cited Indra Nooyi of Pepsi (PEP) and her push to improve the company's healthy food offerings and, ostensibly, rein in the country's out-of-control healthcare costs. He name-checked Unilever (UL) CEO Paul Polman, who has taken steps to reduce the consumer product giant's environmental footprint. And George also tipped his hat to Coca-Cola (KO) CEO Muhtar Kent, who has scaled back his company's water usage and called for solutions to water shortages.

????"[As business leaders,] let's all do everything that's under our control," Porter said on Thursday. "If we do that, we can, on at least some level, change the world."

????As for politics? George believes not much that's worthwhile will come out of Washington until at least 2017. It's not that government is a lost cause, it's just not Harvard's cause. Despite its list of policy prescriptions, Nohria says HBS has zero interest in jumping into the political fray. Harvard's goals are long-term, he says, and it won't be lobbying politicians any time soon.

????And, in some ways, that's a shame. Part of the beauty of Harvard's prescriptions are that they don't resemble the typical, narrowly focused lobbying agenda the country is used to seeing from big business. AFL-CIO's director of policy and special counsel Damon Silvers said that his constituency could get behind some of the HBS business-centric positions. If business and labor could throw their considerable clout behind these ideas -- especially things like tax reform -- there might be more hope for the political process. For now, though, we'll just have to hope the coming debt ceiling negotiation goes better than the last one.