Somewhat of a devil's advocate here, because I am very familar with corporate idiocy. But how do you define a non-sociopathic corporate scenario where a company makes a lot of money from a good product they develop? Even if done in maximally practically and emotionally intelligent way, this still requires changes from research phase no?

Developing a business product and monetizing it doesn't require sacking the research group that created it and would have developed it further.