Executive Summary
At Leadership Now, we used industry best practices to collect data and run cutting-edge modeling to gain accurate insights on MBAs and executives, including their demographics, political affiliation, and opinion on the state of our democracy.
Leadership Now collaborated with Citizen Data to survey over a thousand MBAs and business executives in the US on the need for reforming our democracy.
More than two-thirds of MBAs and executives are "very concerned" about the state of our democracy, and more than half believe that business leaders have a responsibility to take action to fix the issues in our democracy.
View the survey to see where business leaders land on specific reforms like public financing and term limits.
HIGHLIGHTS
Scraped universe key findings.
MBAs and executives are skewed male and Caucasian.
They are slightly more Republican than the general electorate, though are still a balanced group politically.
They tend to vote at high rates in general elections.
Survey key findings.
MBAs and Executives are more concerned about our nation and more pro-democracy reform than the general population.
Over half of those surveyed believe business leaders have a responsibility to help fix issues in our democracy.
Most say these issues are at least as important as traditional policy issues like immigration and abortion
There aren’t significant differences between the two groups, but women with MBAs tend to be more Republican and slightly less pro-democracy reform than males.
Though, women in both groups are more supportive of democracy reform than men.
Unique insights.
Most MBAs and Executives that are Democrats say the United States does not have fair elections and that it is at least somewhat difficult to vote, echoing national trends. Republicans overwhelmingly disagree.
Democrats in business also are more likely to say that business leaders have a responsibility to act in democracy, with 63% of MBAs and 64% of Executives saying so, compared to 48% and 49% of Republicans, respectively.
Republicans, Democrats, and independents in business all strongly support independent commissions for redistricting, but there is a gap for all other democracy reform measures asked.