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Corporate Policy – General: Aurora Institute(Canadian group) Citizen Works The Corporate Library (Excellent corporate governance and CEO pay info) “The Corporation” (a new movie about corporations) CounterCorp is the only annual independent film festival devoted to corporate power and related issues Essential Information…
Take Action
Crack Down on Contract-Related Corruption and Cronyism Tell Congress to keep two key contract reform provisions currently in the $613 billion FY 2009 Defense Authorization bill (H.R. 5658): a) Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) Clean Contracting Act, which, among other things,…
Corporations and the Constitution
The U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and subsequent Amendments do not explicitly mention corporations. Nevertheless, under U.S. law corporations have obtained substantial rights through key court decisions that have established particular legal doctrines and provided corporations some of the…
Corporate Concentration
Monopolies and Corporate Concentration: Antitrust and Congress: Check out our paper on corporate concentration. Related information: The American Antitrust Institute drafted a useful Agenda for Congress in 2007 and submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrutst for a hearing in March, 2007. Justice…
Executive Compensation
New (02/04/09) CCP’s Reaction to Obama Administration’s New Executive Pay Policy REPORT on CEO Pay: “Selfish Interest: How the Business Roundtable CEOs Stand to Lose From Real Reform of CEO Pay” Check out these relatedFACT SHEETs: What Congress Can Do About Executive…
Cracking Down on Corporate Crime
If corporate crime is one of the Department of Justice’s top priorities, then why don’t they produce an annual corporate crime report like the one they do for street crime? We have asked Attorney General Holder (as well as his predecessor Attorney General Gonzales)…
Are Corporations Required to “Maximize Profits”??
You hear people say it all the time when they get into discussions about corporate power and how to change the system: “Corporations are required by law to maximize profits.” The assumption is that the view so famously articulated by…