Category: Free Enterprise Project
Woke CEOs May Play Dumb, But Judges Will Know Better
You would think that corporate executives would be smart. After all, they have been given powerful positions and a lot of money to make good decisions for their companies. And yet those justifying their woke positions seem to be completely ...
Scott Shepard: Shifting Standards of Evidence Will Doom Woke CEOs
ESG, stakeholder capitalism, sustainability, equity – whatever the label, in each case, the fact on the ground is a corporation taking a left-wing political or social position and claiming that the move will be good for the corporation’s bottom line ...
Kroger Policies Put Employees with Conservative Values at Risk, Says Shareholder Group
Washington, D.C. – Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present a proposal this morning at The Kroger Company’s annual shareholder meeting addressing company policies that fail to protect against discrimination based ...
Corporate Support for Transgenderism is Risky Business
"Embracing transgenderism is risky business for corporations these days," writes Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield in The Washington Times. The recent controversies -- and plummeting profits -- for Anheuser-Busch and Target are high-profile cautionary tales of what happens when ...
Stefan Padfield: Are Corporate Boards Breaching Their Fiduciary Duties by Embracing Transgenderism?
Embracing transgenderism is risky business for corporations these days. A Fox Business piece stated that “controversial marketing decisions by Target and Bud Light are … burning shareholders … to the tune of a combined $28 billion.” Corporate officers and directors ...
Human Rights Campaign Should Declare a State of Emergency for Itself, Not for LGBTQ People
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has declared a state of emergency for people who identify as LGBTQ+, but Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard assures anyone alarmed by that warning that "gay people in America are not at any higher ...
Target Shareholders Take Legal Action as Company’s Pride and Politics Sink Their Investments
"Well, it’s finally happened. A company has strayed so far into politics, at the demonstrable and shattering detriment to its bottom line, that shareholders have begun a process that – unless Target mends its ways – will end in court." ...
Scott Shepard: The Human Rights Campaign Should Call 911 For Itself
Oh, dear. It appears that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has declared a national emergency. You remember HRC, no? That’s the group that up to about a decade ago pushed for gay people to have the same civil marriage rights ...
It’s Not an Accident That Corporate America Is Moving in Lockstep to the Left
How have companies like Anheuser-Busch and Target drifted so far to the left that they seem tone deaf to the values of their consumers? Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Director Scott Shepard talked recently with Stella Escobedo of the One America ...
Caterpillar Asked to Audit DEI Initiatives by Conservative Shareholder Group
Washington, D.C. – Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present a proposal at Caterpillar’s annual shareholder meeting addressing discriminatory Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies and their impacts on merit-based hiring ...
