閉嘴 企業家Corporate Leaders Need to Keep Their Mouths Shut

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Corporate Leaders Need to Keep Their Mouths Shut

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By Anthony J. Casey and Tom Ginsburg

The writers are professors at the University of Chicago Law School.

越來越多的大學採取中立政策，重新致力於核心使命。

企業也同樣如此。關鍵在於堅持機構中立，這要求領導人對不直接影響其營運的社會和政治問題保持沉默。

這意味著要控制企業的政治言論（進步的和保守的），以及像馬斯克這樣的執行長的政治活動和像 Meta 這樣的公司的政治反覆無常。我們自己的大學，芝加哥大學，於1899 年致力於這一理想，並在1967 年具有開創性的卡爾文報告中重申了這一承諾。

Increasingly, universities have adopted neutrality policies to recommit to their core mission. So can corporations. The key is committing to institutional neutrality, which requires leaders to stay silent on social and political issues that do not directly affect their operations. This means reining in corporate political statements — progressive and conservative — as well as the political activity of chief executives like Elon Musk and political flip-flops by companies like Meta. Our own university, the University of Chicago, committed to this ideal in 1899 and restated that commitment in the seminal Kalven Report of 1967. This has freed individuals in our community to express their own opinions and ideas in lively debate.