Support Stocks: General Directors are tired of responsible for gun regulation

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The Americans grew on corporate managers that tread well-worn the northeast hallway paths to convene together with elected officials in Washington, DC and discuss geopolitics, politics, politics and everything they are in between.

2017 year, the main executive directors from the entire country came together To oppose the transdentern law on the transgender bathroom of North Carolina. In 2019 years called Abortus prohibit “bad for work”.

After the deadly attack on American capital 6. January 2021. years, many of the biggest names of corporate American America condemned the rebellions and pledged to stop their political giving.

Recently more than 1,000 companies promised voluntarily reduction Their business in Russia in protest in the Moscow war in Ukraine.

Dick’s sports goods stopped selling Semiautomatic, rifles in attacks in stores and Citigroup New restrictions For sales guns by business customers after shooting mass in the high school in Parkland, Florida, 2018 years.

A year later, after mass shooting in Walmart in El Paso, Texas and Nightclub in Daiton, Ohio, Walmart has finished selling weapons for weapons.

Corporate management has long been loud on the issue of gun control – in 2019. And again this past summer Almost 150 major companies – including Lululemon, lift, Bain Capital, Bloomberg LP, Permanente Medical Group and Unilever – Pulp Violence “Crisis for Public Health” and demanded that American Senate Is Brings Legislation take.

That’s why America is Corporate silence After the latest mass shooting at school in Nashville, it is such a dish. The United States relied on the increasing power of large corporations as political advocates.

But Yale Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Vocal Proponent of Corporate Social Responsibility Whoever has direct line to major general director worldwide said the top managers forlorne. Their previous efforts did not do much to push the needle on gun control and without support, they do not know what else I can do at this point, he said.

Before the bell, she talked to Sonnenfeld, which leads Yale Schoed Schoed Scheed Heevel Treatment Execution, the insistuta of a protected research focused on the management of the director and corporate governance.

This interview is arranged for clarity and length.

Before the bell: General directors were quiet about gun reform because you are the latest shooting of mass school in Nashville, did you hear anything about the plans to say?

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: Where are everyone else? Where is all civil society? General directors are just one group of people and it is like we turn to them to be ours on each topic. They joined the causes with courage and nobility, but they cannot only cause after causes as if there was no one in society. Social changes that happened in the 1960s do not lead them primarily to the executed. Social changes really happened when we saw Interfaith the activity of the clergy locking the weapons and the blooms of lawmakers. We saw the campuses live and woke up. Where is all student activism?

General directors are still the most active even if they are less active than six months ago. They did not hire the hands of shareholders there to fulfill the role of politicians and civil leaders. They are there to join that choir, but they don’t want to be the only singing.

So that’s what you hear from the best general principals? Were they tired of advocacy?

I just stopped the whole call for the voting right and this morning we had a sustainability forum – General directors are still most active on these fronts. It is the same thing about immigration reform. If the General Manager works a 18-hour day of 12 day week, they still could not address all issues needed addressing.

Certain principals of the nation are waiting for everyone else to join them. They don’t have to restate something they have already stated. They jumped into the pool, where are everyone else?

So what do you think has led to this complacency among Americans and growing reliance on the executive general general manager to advocate our name?

They took a very strong attitude and they came out of the general public. They are where the public is wider on surveys, but they are not where the public is on the streets. So we’re ready for others to do something now. Is he enough already saying “What are the General Directors doing?” Social capital is so valuable as financial capital. General directors understand that in their souls they want to exist social capital. They want to be public confidence, but they need the rest of civil society to join them. And it’s their frustration.

Sounds like CEOS is frustrated?

Yes, they are frustrated.

But don’t these executive directors keep the wire purses in terms of donation to powerful politicians?

You would think that, but from the election of 2020. Many fewer campaign contributions come from great business. From 2021. at the Capitol, many companies had a formal moratorium or the People have given politicians. The common impression on the street managed by the general directors campaign for purse bags is 100% wrong.

CNN’s Chris Isidore

Tesla reported. Modest 4% sales growth in the first quarter compared to the last three months last year, despite the series of appreciations at its lower prices and discussed the Director General Elona Musk about strong demand in these lower prices.

The first quarter also marked the fourth flat quarter that Tesla produced more vehicles than delivered to customers. Some of this can be a consequence of the ramp in production in two new factories, in Texas, and second in Germany, which opened last spring and lags between that increased production and sales.

Tesla said that there was an increase in the number of its more expensive models, model S and model X, in transit in Europe, Middle East and Africa, as well as Asian Pacific.

But this means that in the last 12 months, Tesla produced 78,000 more cars than it was sold, suggesting that the conversation about strong pursuit of tesla managers cannot substantiate the numbers.

“At the beginning of this year, we had price adjustment. After that, we actually created huge demand, more than we can produce,” said Tom Zhu, Tesla’s executive in charge of global production and sale. “And as Elon said, as long as you offer value with a value at an affordable price, you don’t have to worry about demand.”