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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

Experts predict it will surge even more in 2015-2016. Making these decisions requires that directors have expertise, exercise informed judgment, and be guided by an ethical compass. million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle. Consider what Aetna faced in 2012. million to the U.S.