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The article focuses on decreased tolerance by corporations for personal misbehavior by top executives. The case of Chris Albrecht, fired from his job as Chief Executive Officer at Home Box Office after an arrest for hitting his girlfriend is cited along with other examples. The firing of Don Imus is said to show mass media companies as particularly sensitive in such cases. A similar charge against Albrecht in 1991 had no repercussions. Corporate policies on alcoholism vary.

The article reports that business and financial leaders in Great Britain stay silent concerning the country's perceived exit from the European Union. It states that pro-Europeans are frustrated by the unwillingness of these people on the risks of withdrawal. Glenis Willmott of the British Labour Party says that businesspeople consider the move to be disastrous for business in the country.