When a company brings thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity to a city or state, its CEO gains a powerful bargaining chip with the government. Knowing when to use that power requires the kind of judgment that increasingly defines the corner office, weighing political influence against the interests of employees, the needs of the business, and the company’s ties to the place it calls home.
CEOs are increasingly making the economic stakes explicit, tying decisions about jobs and future investment to clashes over taxes, regulation, social policy, and corporate deals.
