Like a reconfigured checkout, easier to access customer service area or a small business department focused on female customers in acknowledgment that small business owners are often female and that women shop for electronics differently than men.
Harvard selecting a professor who has been active in promoting business ethics for a long time to lead its Business School then simply serves as tacit acknowledgment that change is coming.
To me, acknowledgment of shareholder interests would insist on carefully chosen actions recognizing business success as intricately intertwined with natural and social systems.
The 28-year-old executive, who noted that he grew up with the Internet, said Facebook's Home was an acknowledgment that people's relationship with computing devices was rapidly changing from one focused on productivity or business to one centered around human connections.