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I mostly agree with ratbastid that when people speak of 'evil corporations', they are in fact talking about 'evil' actions being performed by people who run or own certain corporations.
The thing that sometimes makes corporations particularly prone to reckless and thoughtless behavior as a body is the lack of individual responsibility. A corporation is nothing more than a collective of men and women working towards a particular goal. The most important goal is, of course, profit (and I don't mean that statement as a value judgment), and the entire machinery of the corporation hurtles towards this singular goal; it is no one's job to stop and consider why they are pursuing this goal, or what impact it might have on people, other than in ways that affect the bottom line.
To be fair, many corporations also commit themselves to specific corporate and civic values, and they do take many of these values seriously as part of their business. Corporations have the potential (more often realized than many will admit) to do great good as well as harm.
Really, though, what bearing does the question of whether one prefers to personify corporations have on issues of business policy and one's political outlook?
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