Business leaders play important activist roles in communicating societal values and promoting change in areas such as gun control, immigration, and climate actions.
What business leaders can learn from nonviolent resistance (and sociology)
Social activism showing up in social entrepreneurship
Information and communications technologies now make corporate activities very public, and a connection strengthens between social activism, social entrepreneurship, and business.
Business leaders implore Senate for common-sense gun laws
Business leaders from some of the nation’s best-known companies sent a letter to Senate leaders urging an expansion of background checks to all firearm sales and stronger “red flag” laws. The letter, urging the Republican-controlled Senate to enact bills already introduced in the Democrat-led House of Representatives, is an unprecedented effort by the business community…
Homeless initiative divides San Francisco
Storyline: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced that he and his company will donate millions of dollars to the campaign for Proposition C, an upcoming ballot measure that will raise taxes on the biggest San Francisco businesses—including Salesforce—and use the money to help the homeless. Proposition C would more than double San Francisco’s housing-assistance spending by levying…