Dr. Edmans is a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute.
Does the White House associate itself with that type of corporate stewardship in the sense that Immelt is its leading avatar or representative to the corporate world?
As Fred Wilson notes, Clay Christensen (an associate and in some respects a contemporary of my own) talks frequently about the way corporate executives calculate a Return On Investment (ROI) on any investment they make.