MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Every Company Needs a Political Strategy Today

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  • Blair Levin, Larry Downes
  • MIT Sloan Management Review
  • 2022

What if your company’s health insurance plan (or your hiring and training practices, or your policy on guns in the workplace) violates a new state law? And what if your efforts to comply with fast-changing laws and regulations are met with condemnations from employees, customers, and investors?

These were not questions that business leaders were asking themselves even a few years ago.

Now they must. Worse, such questions are certain to increase in both quantity and importance. You need a political strategy — one that supports and complements your business strategy.

About the Author

Blair Levin (@blairlevin) is a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and a former government official. Larry Downes (@larrydownes) is the author of six books on digital transformation, strategy, and public policy. They are coeditors of the National Urban League’s 2021 Lewis Latimer Plan for Digital Equity and Inclusion.

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