There’s little chance Arthur T. Demoulas will be invited to give the commencement speech next year at any respectable business school, where the next generation of CEOs are taught that their primary responsibility is to maximize shareholder value by any means necessary.
That’s why his speech yesterday — at the conclusion of a summer-long protest over his ouster from a grocery chain — was so remarkable.
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