The business of risk supports a wide range of industries ranging from medical and auto to property and casualty, as well as construction and government. (Photo: Shutterstock)

What is the business of America? At his Congressional hearing for appointment as President Eisenhower's Secretary of Defense in 1953, General Motors CEO Charles Wilson told the Senate that "for years" he thought that "what was good for General Motors was good for America." Considering the world situation at the time (the Korean War) he wasn't so sure.

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