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By Rose Ors In collaboration with Amelia Miazad, Founding Director & Senior Research Fellow, Business in Society Institute, Berkeley Law Rose Ors: As President of Legal and Corporate Affairs you lead a number of key teams at Salesforce—legal, compliance, internal audit, security, and government affairs. Is sustainability included?…

By Rose Ors In collaboration with Amelia Miazad, Founding Director & Senior Research Fellow, Business in Society Institute, Berkeley Law This past August, the Business Roundtable (Roundtable) announced the adoption of a new “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.” Breaking with Milton Friedman’s corporate governance…

By Rose Ors The message is loud and clear: We need more leaders in society and in business. Not just individuals with titles, status and power, but individuals with high integrity who have taken the time to know themselves and understand others. Individuals who…

By Rose Ors In collaboration with Amelia Miazad, Founding Director & Senior Research Fellow, Business in Society Institute, Berkeley Law Few brands are as iconic as Levi’s®. In the fashion industry, few companies have been more proactive than Levi Strauss & Co. in fostering practices that…

By Rose Ors June 6, 2019 On October 5, 2017, The New York Times published the first story to expose Harvey Weinstein as a serial sexual predator. Five days later the hashtag #MeToo went viral. By November, #MeToo had been tweeted 2.3 million times from 85 different countries. Since November 2017,…

By Rose Ors In collaboration with Amelia Miazad, Founding Director & Senior Research Fellow, Business in Society Institute, Berkeley Law April 10, 2019 Some have called 2018 the tipping point of the movement to integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria into investment decisions. The…

By Rose Ors In collaboration with Amelia Miazad, Founding Director & Senior Research Fellow, Business in Society Institute, Berkeley Law April 9, 2019 Tony West A component of corporate sustainability is the trust that a company earns in protecting the interest of the…

By Rose Ors In collaboration with Delia Violante, Director, Women in Business Law Initiative, Berkeley Law April 8, 2019 Janet Napolitano There is a palpable change in the conversation on gender equity — the conversation is turning into one of action, and that…

By Rose Ors In collaboration with Delia Violante, Director, Women in Business Law Initiative, Berkeley Law March 27, 2019 Even after decades of progress toward making women equal partners with men in business, there is much work to be done. The Women…

By Rose Ors November 2018 BERKELEY, Calif. — Those who learn, lead. I not only like the sound of this phrase, I think it’s true. And it was also the predominant theme at the recent UC Berkeley General Counsel Institute, which shone a light on how in-house lawyers are…