CEO Perspectives

Smart Regulation

Mar 19

S&P Global President and CEO Doug Peterson: A Smart Approach to Regulation

Tax & Fiscal Policy

Mar 4

Joshua Bolten & Ken Bertsch: Restricting Stock Buybacks Will Hurt the Economy

Diversity & Inclusion

Oct 12

Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky and Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA): Working Together to Improve Diversity and Inclusion

Education & Workforce

Jun 22

Bush and Rometty: Congress must address the 'skills gap' and update our education system by passing the Perkins Act

Corporate Governance

Jun 6

Dimon and Buffett: Short-Termism Is Harming the Economy

Cisco Chairman & CEO Chuck Robbins on Diversity and How to Be the Bridge

Assurant President & CEO CEO Alan Colberg On Diversity and Why Uncommon Thinking Yields Uncommon Results

Embracing Sustainability Challenge

Business Roundtable CEOs are embracing environmentally sustainable practices across their businesses, resulting in stronger communities and a healthier environment.

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Bechtel Chairman & CEO Brendan Bechtel on America’s infrastructure

Bechtel Chairman and CEO Brendan Bechtel discusses why it's time to invest in infrastructure now.

JPMorgan Chase Chairman & CEO Jamie Dimon on America's Infrastructure

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon discusses fixing bureaucracy and achieving competitive infrastructure.

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg on How Tax Reform is Boosting Innovation and Opportunity at Boeing

Dennis Muilenburg – Chairman, President and CEO of The Boeing Company – describes how tax reform is empowering Boeing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in its employees, its community, and its manufacturing capabilities.

Tax Reform is Delivering

American workers, families and communities are already seeing the benefits of tax reform in wage increases, bonuses, and expanded retirement benefits. That's just the beginning, because tax reform will mean more investments here in the U.S., leading to higher wages and more jobs for American workers.

Trade

Mar 22

Business and Congressional Leaders Highlight Need for Strategic, Long-Term Approach to Address Trade Barriers in China

Cummins CEO Tom Linebarger on Expanding, Not Restricting, NAFTA

Cummins CEO & Chair of the Business Roundtable International Engagement Committee Tom Linebarger talks about “the opportunity to improve” NAFTA and how his company and U.S. workers benefit from growing trade.

The U.S. has a Real Stake in NAFTA Negotiations - Evan Greenberg, Chairman and CEO, Chubb

“NAFTA is good for our country. Economically it creates jobs. It improves our competitive profile, and it lowers the cost to consumers. I could think of no better strategy to improve our competitive profile in the world today where more countries are competing against us than to have NAFTA.”

The U.S. has a Real Stake in NAFTA Negotiations - Mark Costa, Chairman & CEO, Eastman

The top priority for policymakers should be maintaining and strengthening NAFTA so American business, workers and consumers can continue to reap the benefits of trade with our two largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico.

The U.S. has a Real Stake in NAFTA Negotiations - Rich Lesser, President & CEO, BCG

When America helps shape trade agreements, you get better agreements for the U.S., but you also get to better agreements for everyone else.

S&P Global President and CEO Doug Peterson on America's Infrastructure

S&P Global President and CEO Doug Peterson describes why infrastructure is important to S&P and to the competitiveness of America’s economy.

The U.S. has a Real Stake in NAFTA Negotiations - David Abney, CEO & Chairman, UPS

“We have the opportunity here to create a framework of rules that makes trade cheaper, safer and faster. Which is definitely good for American businesses and American consumers.”

Immigration

Jan 11

Chuck Robbins: Solving the DACA Challenge

Diversity & Inclusion

Promoting diversity and inclusion isn’t just a goal that organizations should strive to achieve. It is our responsibility to create opportunities for people of all backgrounds across America.

"Building a more diverse and inclusive environment is the promise we make to each other, and something all of us strive to carry out each and every day. The commitment we embrace at Johnson & Johnson is shared by the CEOS of the Business Roundtable." - Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson.

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Advancing Diversity & Inclusion

The CEOs of Business Roundtable, who lead companies with tens of millions of employees, believe that all of us are responsible for making the world a better place than we found it. By advancing diversity and inclusion, Business Roundtable members are acting on their responsibility as leaders. Discover more here.

Trade with Canada and Mexico

Trade with Canada and Mexico supports 11 million American jobs. Sustaining and strengthening U.S. trade with these partners will support U.S. economic growth and job creation.

America’s Business Leaders: Modernize NAFTA

CEOs from Best Buy, Boston Consulting Group, Chubb, Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical Company and Siemens urge policymakers to maintain, strengthen and modernize NAFTA to create more growth and ensure free and fair trade that strengthens our economy.

Time to Focus on Proposals to Expand, Not Restrict, Trade Under NAFTA

This is an opportunity for the Administration to modernize and strengthen this important trade pact to reflect today’s economy and expand U.S. economic opportunities.

Boosting Workforce Skills & Expanding Job Opportunities

The Workforce Partnership Initiative (WPI) is a CEO-led initiative created by the Business Roundtable to increase the skills and diversity of America’s workforce and fill open jobs in growing industries around the country. The WPI will establish partnerships with education and community leaders to align local business needs with the development of career pathway programs.

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Here's How Some of America's Biggest Companies Plan to Shake Up Worker Training

Unemployment may be stunningly low today, but many managers fret that their workers don’t have the right skills for tomorrow. The Business Roundtable, the association of U.S. CEOs, is taking a step toward addressing that anxiety.

Infrastructure: 'The Time to Act is Now'

Business Roundtable recently hosted “The Cost of Inaction: A Conversation on U.S. Infrastructure” — an event bringing together a panel of leaders from business, labor and government to focus on America’s infrastructure needs. Here are highlights from this in-depth discussion on problems, potential solutions and bipartisan opportunities to modernize America’s infrastructure.

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U.S. Infrastructure & The Cost of Inaction

Leaders in business, government and labor came together during Infrastructure Week to discuss the need for infrastructure renewal in the U.S. and the mounting economic consequences of inaction.

AECOM CEO Mike Burke on America’s Infrastructure

Everybody wants new and better infrastructure … and taxpayers around the country are voting resoundingly for increased investment in infrastructure. It’s not a partisan issue. It's an America issue. We cannot have an America first strategy if our infrastructure is last. We need to come together to solve this intractable problem that has gone on for decades now.