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Richard Telofski is a competitive strategy analyst. Specializing in anti-corporate activism, he examines the actions of "irregular competitors" (i.e., activists and NGOs) and how those organizations impact business from within online and offline media.  |
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, authors Clark Judge and Richard Torrenzano discuss anticipated changes to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules which will allow more stockholder freedom of access to the process of corporate resolutions via the annual proxy. Is this a new threat to corporate strategy? Briefly for those of you unfamiliar [...] There are three primary concepts on which society functions: faith, rule of law, and commerce. When these three key functions are allowed to find their optimum, society can really hum along. They act independently, but yet together. There are some overlaps among their functions, naturally. Such as when the ideas of Each key has a [...] Chevron has been embroiled in an environmental case concerning their operations in the Amazon rainforest. The controversy and legal wrangling has been going on for quite a while. Just Google “chevron amazon lawsuit” and you’ll see what I mean. Today I’m not commenting on that case per se, but what I am commenting upon is a [...] Activist and NGO calls upon companies to act in a more transparent fashion are fine, but only up to a point. Although I am a business advocate, I’m absolutely not in favor of companies adopting questionable processes, cheating consumers, or raping the land. I am a business advocate to the point of business being necessary and [...] In their battle against business, one tactic of activists is to challenge the legal parameters within which corporations operate. In reading about this tactical approach, I came across an article entitled “Paradigm Shift: Challenging Corporate Authority” and written by Paul Cienfuegos. This article appears in a book entitled The Global Activist’s Manual, edited by Mike Prokosch [...] |
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