When shareholders ask a simple question about how their money is being spent, the answer should be transparency. When the answer is evasion, it raises a troubling question: What is the company hiding? This proxy season, the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) submitted a straightforward proposal to Berkshire Hathaway. NCPPR requested a report assessing whether the company’s subsidiaries’ sustainability commitments are actually justified by expected-value and return-on-investment (ROI) analysis.
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