PGE Business as Activism

Links and deck for those who want it :)

May 30 PGE Business as Activism Slides

Shareholder activism

Shareholder activism is a way that shareholders can influence a corporation's behavior by exercising their rights as partial owners. Classes of shares allow for distinct voting privileges, in addition to dividend entitlements.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shareholderactivist.asp

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/05/24/activist-investors-are-needed-more-than-ever

Direct action

Mostly this is what folks think of when they think ‘activism’

Lobbying

https://www.ncsl.org/ethics/how-states-define-lobbying-and-lobbyist

Social Business

https://socialbusiness.org/

https://www.loomio.com/

Articles

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conservative-activist-invented-the-conflict-over-critical-race-theory

https://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/activismfocused-social-businesses

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/business_disruption_from_the_inside_out#

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/business/dealbook/corporate-activism-letters.html

https://isthisacoup.com/

https://clarkstonconsulting.com/insights/corporate-activism/

https://givingcompass.org/article/making-corporate-activism-work-5-companies-doing-it-right?gclid=CjwKCAjwscGjBhAXEiwAswQqNDfZJoV7eoETIiBHoBa5CabOo02uamy-y6xJyj_r2JnlfDlFEdeithoC3RcQAvD_BwE

Sushi in America

https://www.theknowledge.com/2021/11/19/the-moonies-made-america-love-sushi/

Dr. Bronners

The label dates to 1948, when the original Dr. Bronner used his soaps to spread the message of “transcendent unity across religious & ethnic divides,” after his parents were killed in the Holocaust. Users are also encouraged to “teach the whole Human race the Moral ABC's,” a lengthy code of ethics inspired by a Rudyard Kipling poem.

https://www.them.us/story/dr-bronners-magic-soap-ceo-he-they-pronouns-coming-out