There ' s actually a concept out there called a Benefit Corporation , which is the idea of incentivizing corporations for making decisions that benefit society and improve public living conditions . Yeah , no . Not much . A benefit corporation suffers from the same shortcomings that the government does 1 . How well it meets its goals is not easily measurable . 2 . Failing to meet its goals does not stop it from consuming resourcesA terrific example of how this goes wrong is the Susan B . Komen Foundation which is a nonprofit , but that ' s irrelevant here . It does a terrible , terrible job of reaching its ostensible goals reducing mortality and morbidity from cancer , but it does a great job of reaching the goals of the people who run it high salaries for the people who run it . All organizations suffer from the agency problem but a benefits corporation has nothing but agency problems .