It was a year marked by a public health catastrophe, a plunge in economic output, and widespread social unrest—crisis upon crisis that ultimately challenged individuals and institutions to find their conscience. And American companies stepped up.
Fifty years after Nobel laureate Milton Friedman famously declared that the sole “social responsibility of business is to increase its profits,” corporations are abandoning the dictum. “We’ve seen a demonstrable and well-articulated pivot of Corporate America in terms of how they’re…
