The Biden administration has announced a package of policy measures to protect the US steel, aluminum, and shipbuilding industries from what they allege are unfair trade practices by China and calling the industries critical...more
4/22/2024
/ Aluminum Sales ,
Biden Administration ,
China ,
Investigations ,
Mexico ,
New Regulations ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Section 301 ,
Shipbuilding ,
Steel Industry ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
USTR
Most of the potential complications and outcomes outlined above were not considered by the US Congress and other WTO members, which previously considered only conventional businesses competing among themselves when drafting...more
Since at least the 1970s and the publication of Milton Friedman's "shareholder primacy" doctrine, throughout the hostile takeover business culture of the 1980s, and during the more recent linking of executive compensation to...more
9/9/2021
/ Board of Directors ,
Consumers ,
Corporate Executive Boards ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Executive Compensation ,
Investment ,
Investors ,
Shareholders ,
Stakeholder Engagement ,
Sustainability
Frederick Alexander, Chief Executive Officer and founder of the Shareholder Commons—a nonprofit organization focused on issues and structures for a sustainable, just economy— discusses how systemic changes can help companies...more
9/8/2021
/ Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Disclosure ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Investment ,
Investors ,
Safe Harbors ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholders ,
Sustainability ,
Sustainable Business Practices
Holly Ensign-Barstow, the Director of Stakeholder Governance and Policy for B Lab, a nonprofit that certifies companies as B Corporations, describes the benefits of making sure a company's operations and business model...more
Due to their unique operating principles, stakeholder-capitalism businesses and benefit corporations can face different challenges and opportunities under various areas of US law that regulate competition.
In...more
9/3/2021
/ Anti-Subsidies ,
Benefit Corporations ,
Capital Markets ,
Competition ,
Countervailing Duties ,
Exports ,
Fair Trade Agreements (FTA) ,
Tariff Act of 1930 ,
Unfair Trade Practices Act ,
US Trade Policies ,
USITC ,
WTO