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Defying Republicans, big companies keep the focus on voting rights By David Gelles New York Times,Updated April 12, 2021, 5:34 p.m. Email to a Friend Ken Frazier, the Merck chief executive. Frazier has called on corporate executives to publicly state their support for broader ballot access.MIKE COHEN/NYT As corporate America continues to push back against a wave of restrictive voting laws under discussion across the United States, Big Law is joining the fight. A coalition of 60 major law firms has come together “to challenge voter suppression legislation and to support national legislati...

Corporate leaders discuss their next move in the debate over restrictive voting laws. Ken Frazier, the Merck chief executive, has called on corporate executives to publicly state their support for broader ballot access.Credit...Mike Cohen for The New York Times April 12, 2021, 8:37 a.m. ET More than 100 corporate leaders attended a Zoom meeting on Saturday afternoon to discuss what they should do, if anything, to shape the debate around restrictive voting laws under discussion across the United States. On the call, which was organized by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale professor who regularly gath...

Dean Nitin Nohria welcomed more than 2,500 participants to the June 11 event led by Senior Lecturers Andy Zelleke and Tony Mayo. Following the Dean’s introduction, HBS alumni, staff, and students—Mia Mends (MBA 2003), George Ellis (MBA 1984), HBS CIO Ron Chandler, Chichi Anyoku (MPP/MBA 2021), Ronnie Wimberley (MBA 2021), Priyanka Chaurasia (MBA 2021), and Mike Klain (JD/MBA 2022) —shared their lived experiences in reaction to and in reflection of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and those before them. Walking into Harvard Business School as frien...