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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ReportBrennan Center for Justice

Money in the 2024 Election

2025

This series offers a retrospective on how rising political spending—especially via dark money and super PACs—is shaping public perceptions, fueling polarization, and undermining trust. It highlights record-breaking ad spending across TV and digital platforms and calls for stronger disclosure and enforcement to protect democratic integrity.

ArticleAxios

Most CEOs Say Trump Policy Has Harmed Their Businesses, New Survey Finds

Emily Peck, 2025

A Yale School of Management survey of CEOs reveals widespread private concern that Trump administration policies—from tariffs to monetary and health regulation—are harming business interests and may violate the law. Yet most executives remain publicly silent, fearing retaliation. The episode underscores corporate vulnerability to political retribution and the importance of principled, transparent corporate voice in safeguarding democratic norms and market stability.

ReportOECD

OECD Recommendation of the Council on Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying and Influence

2025

The Recommendation on Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying and Influence provides concrete guidance for governments in ensuring lobbying and influence activities support effective public decision-making while limiting the risks of undue influence, and it provides a framework to support businesses and other influence actors in conducting their lobbying and influence activities in a responsible manner.

Tool#unifyUSA and Living Room Conversations

Of, By, and For The People: Living Room Conversation Guide on the Constitution

2025

This guide offers conversation practices and norms that help people move beyond political echo chambers, enabling genuine learning, mutual understanding, and connection across divides.

ArticleManagement Science (INFORMS)

Political Polarization and Nonmarket Strategy over the Policy Life Cycle

Thomas P. Lyon and John W. Maxwell, 2025

This academic article analyzes how political polarization affects corporate nonmarket strategies—such as lobbying, advocacy, and coalition-building—across different stages of the policy life cycle. It shows how polarization changes the risks and payoffs of engagement, complicating firms’ ability to influence policy without triggering backlash or strategic misalignment.

ToolWe Mean Business Coalition

Responsible Policy Engagement: Corporate Climate Policy Engagement Reporting Template

2025

This framework assists companies in reporting both direct and indirect climate policy engagements aligning advocacy with science-based targets and the Paris Agreement. It provides a structured format for reporting to stakeholders—like investors, NGOs, and regulators—clarifying the company’s role in influencing climate policy and improving accountability.

ArticlePew Research Center

Several Economic Issues Seen as Top National Problems by Americans

2025

This Pew Research report highlights inflation, healthcare affordability, and the federal budget deficit as top economic concerns shaping public grievances and trust in business, with money in politics emerging as a critical related issue undermining confidence in institutions.

ReportUniversity of Pennsylvania

Steady On: Toward Principled, Sustainable Corporate Leadership Addressing the Reality of Human-Caused Climate Change

Leo E. Strine, Jr., 2025

Urges corporate leaders to stay the course on climate action, integrating sustainability into core governance and fiduciary duties. Strine offers a critique of anti-ESG backlash as inconsistent with capitalism and argues that long-term climate leadership protects workers, investors, and the economy.

ReportGlobescan

Sustainability in the USA: What Consumers Think and Expect in 2025

2025

This report uses the UN SDGs to assess U.S. sustainability progress, highlighting where the country is falling short—especially on inequality, climate, and declining trust in institutions. It emphasizes that public expectations are rising, and urges businesses to align with enduring values and evolving customer priorities through transparency, collaboration, and long-term strategy.

ReportSSRN

Sustainable Fiduciary Duties for Investors -- How fiduciary duties can be a key to escape the climate prisoner’s dilemma

Andreas Wildner and Maurits Dolmands, 2025

This paper shows how applying fiduciary duty to investors can bridge the gap to common-sense climate action by helping overcome the collective action problem that often slows climate-aligned investment. By recognizing climate and nature risks as financially material, investors can shift from passive market participants to active actors in the clean economy transition, reducing systemic risks and aligning portfolios with long-term climate goals

ArticleThe Shareholder Commons

System Stewardship Isn't Politics: It's Capitalism

2025

This piece explains “system stewardship,” where investors consider how company actions affect the broader economy and long-term market health. It emphasizes that this approach is not political but financial, highlighting reports showing that climate change and diversity can create systemic risks that investors should address to protect returns.

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.

ArticleBipartisan Policy Center

The Federal Role in U.S. Elections, Visualized

Grace Gordon, 2025

This visual explainer by Grace Gordon of the Bipartisan Policy Center…This visual explainer clarifies the limited but critical federal role in U.S. elections, detailing responsibilities across Congress, numerous federal agencies, and the courts. It shows how authority is distributed across levels of government, equipping election stakeholders – including business -- to better use existing resources, identify opportunities for inter-agency collaboration and to advocate for needed improvements.

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.

ArticleBusiness Horizons / ScienceDirect

The Rise of Authoritarian Capitalism: What Does It Mean for Businesses That Seek Peace?

Benedikt Bulle, 2025

This article examines how the global rise of authoritarian capitalism is reshaping the operating environment for multinational firms. It explores tensions between economic opportunity, political stability, human rights, and democratic governance, arguing that businesses increasingly face strategic and ethical dilemmas when operating within systems where state power and market activity are tightly intertwined.

Report Lawfare Media

The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform

Lawfare Media , 2025

This piece analyses how social-media platforms and large communication networks increasingly moderate speech, respond to regulatory pressure and curate “compliant speech” to avoid legal/regulatory risk. It explores how the corporate/platform model of content moderation intersects with free-speech norms, public trust and corporate reputational responsibilities in a digitally mediated public sphere.

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

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