ReportHarvard Corporate Governance Law Forum

Beyond the Corporate Culture Wars: How Companies Are Revolutionizing Decision-Making on Social Issue

Stavros Gadinis, 2025

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/25/beyond-the-corporate-culture-wars-how-companies-are-revolutionizing-decision-making-on-social-issues/

The piece highlights how companies are moving beyond ad hoc responses to social issues by creating internal rules and processes that guide decision-making. These frameworks, alongside executive action and monitoring, are becoming a core part of corporate governance that boards are expected to oversee.

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WebsiteDuke Fuqua School

The Dialogue Project: How Business Can Reduce Polarization and Build Common Purpose

2025

Housed in Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, is an initiative to explore the role business can play to reduce polarization and improve civic dialogue. Their website offers research and data on dialogue and engagement, showcases corporate initiatives that build common purpose, features news and business leaders’ perspectives, and hosts events to equip current and future leaders to navigate polarization and foster constructive conversations.

WebsiteCenter for Collaborative Democracy

The Grand Bargain Project

2025

The Grand Bargain Project finds that Americans across party lines identify the same six priorities—economic opportunity, education, healthcare, national debt, clean energy, and tax reform—as critical, with surveys showing over 90% agreement on their importance. Even more encouraging, when comparing the status quo to a shared package of 35 reforms, 77% preferred the reforms. These results point to rare cross-partisan convergence on both the problems and potential solutions, and a possible place for constructive engagement.

ReportIpsos Knowledge Center

The Ipsos Populism Report 2025

2025

Based on interviews with more than 23,000 citizens across 31 countries, Ipsos finds persistent public distrust in elites, globalization, and economic systems—driving polarization across both advanced and emerging economies. These trends underscore the need for companies to account for public sentiment and political division when shaping public affairs strategies and stakeholder engagement, especially in regions where legitimacy and trust are increasingly strained.

ArticleFiveThirtyEight

The Moderate Middle Is A Myth

Lee Drutman, 2025

Data analysis shows that voters labeled as moderates, independents, or undecided hold diverse and often conflicting views, undermining the idea of a unified “moderate middle” in today’s polarized political landscape.

WebsiteLaboratory for the American Conversation - Oregon State University Cascades

The Science of Public Discourse: A Guide for Navigating Divisive Conversations

2025

This continuing education online course by The Laboratory for the American Conversation is designed to help you understand how to have contentious conversations that don't escalate into the culture wars that have become all too common. You can apply this in your workplace and with family and friends.

ReportAllstate

The Trust Tipping Point

2025

Allstate’s 2025 research finds that trust in America is at a tipping point. While only 41% of Americans trust people across the U.S., the majority remain optimistic about their communities. The report emphasizes that rebuilding trust starts locally through engagement, leadership, and connection, and offers a three-part strategy: fostering interpersonal trust, investing in community leadership, and scaling trust-building efforts to strengthen democracy and economic resilience

ReportPolicyLink

The Values We Share: Views on Government, Fairness, and Equal Protection in the United States

Anna Kim, Vanice Dunn, and Gretchen Barton of Worthy Strategy, 2025

Interviews with 48 Americans from across ideological and demographic groups reveal broad commonality in wanting fairness and clear expectations of government—such as equal rule enforcement, responsive leadership, transparent decision-making, and dignified public services. At the same time, people diverge on what constitutes fairness, with some emphasizing opportunity, others consistent process, and others tangible outcomes that prove fairness is real. Provides a starting point for stakeholder engagement, and suggests approaches that speak to concerns across the political spectrum.

PresentationThird Side Strategies

Third Side Strategies Information Sheet

2025

An introduction to Third Side Strategies, including the rationale for focusing on CPR Governance to enable long-term value for business and society. Outlines the main motivations -- including Risk Management, Long-term Value Creation, and Supporting Business Purpose and Fiduciary Duty. Includes the main services offered and how to get involved

ReportBCG and University of Cambridge

Too Hot to Think Straight, Too Cold to Panic: Landing the Economic Case for Climate Action with Decision Makers

Amine Benayad, Annalena Hagenauer, Lars Holm, Edmond Rhys Jones, Sahradha Kämmerer, Hamid Maher, Kamiar Mohaddes, Sylvain Santamarta, and Annika Zawadzki, 2025

This report examines the economics of action and inaction on climate, energy and the environment, and finds that failing to limit global warming to below 2°C could reduce cumulative global GDP by 15% to 34% by 2100. Conversely, the analysis suggested that investing 1% to 2% of global GDP in mitigation and adaptation efforts would significantly reduce these economic damages. They conclude that the net cost of inaction—climate change impacts minus the cost of action—is estimated at 11% to 27% of cumulative GDP, underscoring the economic imperative for proactive climate and energy strategies.

ArticleSHRM

Top 5 Geopolitical Threats to Businesses in 2025

Ashleigh Popera, 2025

Summarizes five key threats based on The Conference Board’s C-Suite Outlook 2025 report, including international rivalries, global political instability, trade disruption, rising nationalism and political polarization in the workplace. Recommends assessing risk and governance, leveraging innovation and digital transformation, and strengthening cybersecurity.

ArticleThe New Yorker

What Could Citizens' Assemblies Do for American Politics?

Nick Romeo, 2025

Explores how citizens' assemblies—randomly selected groups with active facilitation deliberating on policy—could improve U.S. democratic decision-making, improve trust and reduce polarization. Shares a successful initiative in Oregon to address youth homelessness.

BookRiverhead Books

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

Michael Lewis, Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell, 2025

This book explores who works for the government and specifically what work do they do. In a time of increased focus on government workers, this book explores the role of government workers through specific examples and stories.

ArticleUC Berkeley News

With right and left deeply divided, emerging UC Berkeley groups embrace the ‘vital center’

Edward Lempinen, 2025

Emerging student groups at UC Berkeley are creating spaces fostering respectful connection across political divides by promoting civil discourse, hosting open debates, and offering courses that equip students with skills to engage diverse perspectives—grounded in the belief that seeking knowledge is the primary mission.

ToolB Lab

A Policy Advocacy and Collective Action Toolkit for Business

2024

This toolkit helps B Corps and values-driven companies turn their mission into action through clear steps for engaging in policy advocacy—offering templates, case studies, and guidance on building coalitions, crafting messages, and showing up credibly in the public arena.

ReportNiskanen Center

A state capacity agenda for 2025

Jennifer Pahlka, Andrew Greenway, 2024

This report argues that to meet the demands of democracy, government must be reorganized to effectively carry out the goals set by the people’s representatives, and offers a four-part agenda to rebuild state capacity through hiring reform, procedural streamlining, digital modernization, and stronger feedback systems.

VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

ACI & IFF on Sustainability Initiatives

Renee Henze of IFF and Nathan Sell of the ACI, 2024

VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

Addressing Concerns about Being Too Political

Angeli Patel with the Berkeley Center for Law and Business, 2024

ReportPowell Tate

Americans to Business: Find Common Ground, But Avoid Politics

2024

This survey reveals that while Americans expect businesses to take a stand on important social issues, they want them to steer clear of political involvement. Respondents call on companies to focus on finding shared values and solutions, rather than engaging in partisan debates.

VideoCorporate Political Responsibility Taskforce

Applying CPR to Commercial Determinants of Health

Dr. Nason Maani of University of Edinburgh, 2024

ArticleYale Institute for Social and Policy Studies

Can Citizens’ Assemblies Help Restore Trust in Government?

Rich Harrison, 2024

This article is a summary of a conversation hosted by Democratic Innovations at Yale's ISPS. Led by ISPS Director Alan Gerber and ISPS faculty fellows and political science professors Hélène Landemore and Adam Meirowitz, Democratic Innovations serves as a laboratory to identify and test new ideas for improving the quality of democratic representation and governance. It recaps insihgts from the conversation hosted by Landemore and Theophile Penigaud de Mourgues, a postdoctoral associate with Democratic Innovations, and Jonathan Moskovic, advisor in democratic innovation for the president of the French-speaking Brussels Parliament.

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