General Counsels & Lawyers- Influencers and Leaders in Sustainability

Abstract

In recent years, we have seen extensive changes in the corporate landscape, not just to the commercial, legal and societal aspects but also how these changes have intertwined in increasingly complex ways. The simplistic Friedman Doctrine – where business only had a single focus of growing profits, with sole responsibility to its shareholders, and none to the public or society – has followed the dinosaurs into extinction. These days, companies place a greater emphasis on governance, accountability and transparency, in order to earn the ‘social license to operate’.