Tag: FEP Commentary

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins recently suggested eliminating shareholder proposals in order to "depoliticize" corporate governance, but Free Enterprise Project Executive Director Stefan Padfield warns that this strategy "would almost certainly have the opposite effect. It would further entrench corporate politicization rather ...

If tech giant Cisco truly believes its DEI agenda is good for business, why can't it defend that agenda when we ask questions about it? In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Executive Director Stefan Padfield notes: If ...

The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) was recently shot down by Microsoft after submitting a shareholder proposal asking Microsoft "to clarify whether its work in Europe—particularly in partnership with governments and nongovernmental organizations—could expose the company to pressures that ...

"Over and over, the loudest DEI defenders reveal the iron law of woke projection: accuse your opponents of what you yourself are doing," writes Free Enterprise Project Executive Director Stefan Padfield in a commentary published at RealClearMarkets. He continues: At the ...

"The first item of business for the EEOC ought to be the creation of a legal definition of what constitutes discriminatory DEI practices through note-and-comment rulemaking," writes Free Enterprise Project Associate Bennett Nuss in a commentary published at Legal Reader ...

"DEI proponents cannot stop lying because the truth is fatal to their cause," writes Free Enterprise Project Executive Director Stefan Padfield in a commentary published at RealClearMarkets. He notes: Once stripped of selective statistics, cooked-up correlations, and ideological cover, DEI ...

If a shareholder proposal has merit on its face, why does it matter who is submitting it? And is Dow Inc. in the business of doxing shareholder proponents if they want to stay anonymous to avoid potential retribution? In a ...

Recent corporate legal filings are treating the deeply flawed decision made in our Starbucks lawsuit as if it's proper precedent and good law. In a commentary published at RealClearMarkets, Free Enterprise Project Executive Director Stefan Padfield explains why that assumption ...

In the commentary below, Free Enterprise Project Associate Bennett Nuss encourages us to examine the line of attack that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is using in a complaint against Starbucks's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, noting "that there ...

"Apply a healthy dose of skepticism the next time you see a headline proclaiming that over 90% of shareholders support DEI because an anti-DEI proposal was defeated by that margin," writes Free Enterprise Project Executive Director Stefan Padfield in a ...