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CEO Political Speech Doctrine: From Chuck Robbins to the 2025 Corporate Retreat
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CEO Political Speech Doctrine: From Chuck Robbins to the 2025 Corporate Retreat

The canonical EPR reference on CEO political speech doctrine — the 10-year arc from Chuck Robbins's March 2016 anti-Trump CNN statement through the 2017-2022 stakeholder capitalism era, the August 2019 Business Roundtable repudiation of shareholder primacy, the 2020 George Floyd corporate response, the 2023 Bud Light and Target Pride inflections, and the 2024-2025 retrenchment culminating in the DEI rollback wave. Five operating principles for 2026.

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