When a shareholder asks a company to demonstrate the financial return on a major investment, you’d expect an answer. But when the National Center for Public Policy Research asked Cisco Systems to affirm that the company’s investments in its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs were properly assessed via expected value and return on investment (ROI) analysis, the company refused to engage. That refusal arguably says a lot about the current state of corporate accountability on DEI.
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