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The Center for Corporate Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.

 In addition to the specific work described below, CCP maintains a broad level of expertise on strategies to curb corporate power. This includes challenges to corporate rights, federal and state chartering, corporate law and governance reforms, antitrust enforcement, and civic activism. CCP has also helped evaluate and draft legislation related to these and other areas.

CCP also provides research and logistical support for corporate campaigns. In conjunction with Essential Information, CCP created a project called HalliburtonWatch.org, and continues to collaborate in the development of Crocodyl - a wiki-based index of research on specific corporations.

Current Issues


* Corporate Crime. CCP advocates for specific measures including a) Strengthened suspension and debarment standards for federal and state contracts. Corporate criminals should not be eligible to receive taxpayer-funded business. Period. Current acquisition standards are vague and inconsistently enforced. b) A federally-sponsored (Department of Justice) and publicly available on-line corporate crime database.  They have also encouraged Congress to direct and fund the Bureau of Justice Statistics to produce an annual report on corporate crime, just as it does for  street crime. c)  "Freedom From Harm Act."  CCP is responsible for drafting a criminal statute for Congress that would give prosecutors a stronger tool to prosecute companies and/or individual executives responsible for knowingly continuing to market products and use processes that lead to serious injury or death.


* Reign in CEO Greed. As Warren Buffett once suggested, CEO pay continues to be the "acid test" of corporate reform. Although shareholder activism has curbed executive excess at some companies, average Fortune 500 CEO pay still stands at hundreds of times higher than the take-home pay of average workers, and the recent Wall Street meltdown further illustrates the need for government action. Efforts to set reasonable standards for executive compensation  have been proposed for some time by Peter Drucker and other management experts. Additional restraints are warranted and necessary when public subsidies are involved. CCP has track a variety of ways that the issue can be addressed.

* Offshore tax haven abuses. CCP tracks and promotes policies designed to address this problem.