Most conversations around proxy voting focus on shareholder proposals and executive compensation. Meanwhile, the most significant votes tend to fly under the radar: director elections.
Federal Express Corporation, one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, together with Junior Achievement (JA), announced the winners of the 2025 FedEx/JA International Trade Challenge Asia Pacific finals held at a live event in Singapore.
Four years ago, Taylor Brown received a bone marrow transplant at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as treatment for severe aplastic anemia.
Aflac, working with sports broadcaster, fashion entrepreneur and cancer survivor Erin Andrews, today launched Check for Cancer, a national movement aimed at boosting U.S. cancer screening rates by 10% over the next decade.
In fall 2024, Hurricanes Helene (Category 4) and Milton (Category 3) struck Florida's Gulf Coast within weeks of each other, causing widespread flooding and power outages affecting over three million people across the Southeast.
The 10 finalists for the 2025 3M Young Scientist Challenge have spent the summer working with 3M scientist mentors to refine their projects ahead of the final contest at the 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, Oct. 13-14.
Aflac employee Cyronn Herrington had a unique childhood, starting at birth. He was diagnosed with hemophilia B, a chronic bleeding disorder that keeps blood from clotting properly.
In Colombia, the fight against disease outbreaks is reaching a critical point—and the collaboration between Direct Relief and FedEx is helping make a tangible difference.
In our continually growing and evolving global environment, Millennials have a unique perspective as a result of being raised during an era of incredible social and technological change. According to a May 2015 TIME report, the 53.5 million millennials (aged 18-34) now constitute the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. In fact, Pew Research, estimates Millennials represent one in three American workers. While there are many opinions, positive and negative, on the Millennial generation’s dependence on technology, we cannot ignore the fact that these digitally-oriented, social networking savvy future leaders are rapidly changing what work looks like and how it gets done.
Old National Bank’s program is called ONe Community (capital ON stands for Old National). The volunteer program is structured to balance the needs of the company’s communities and the engagement and development of its associates, with its core competency of financial literacy.
Astellas Pharma today announced that it has awarded $100,000 grants each to the American Red Cross and Stop Hunger Now in support of their efforts to advance access to healthcare and expand community development around the world.
It was the work of organizations like the UN, AACSB International, EFMD, the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, EABIS, GMAC, GRLI, and Net Impact that led to the recognition by the United Nations of the need for a focus on the leadership being taught in higher education institutions—and in particular in management education. The PRME initiative (Principles for Responsible Management Education) was developed to fill this role eight years ago by the UN Global Compact, deans, university presidents, and representatives of business schools.
T. Rowe Price has released its 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, which details the firm’s efforts to promote financial education, reduce its environmental footprint, and empower associates to have an impact in their communities.
On Friday, September 11, New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez will do some trading of his own – but not the baseball variety – when he represents the Players Trust at Cantor Fitzgerald’s annual Charity Day.
The Blueberry Festival is one of the oldest festivals in Indiana and typically draws 600,000 people every year over the Labor Day Weekend. Republic Services of Culver, Indiana has provided recycling and waste collection services for the community for many years and is a proud supporter of the Blueberry Festival.
Right from the start, the Italian food company Barilla has combined the achievement of economic goals with social commitments to the areas in which it operates. Knowledge of social and economic contexts together with integrity, transparency and innovation, enabled the founders to identify their own entrepreneurial style, and hand it down from generation to generation.
August 26 was National Cherry Popsicle Day and, for the third year in a row, Carnival Cruise Line provided a delicious treat of hundreds of cherry popsicles to the kids at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, one of the cruise line's top charitable partners.
In 2012, the Sitio del Niño tissue mill in El Salvador drew the attention of Kimberly-Clark Product Supply leaders from around the world.
In the preceding months, the mill had become famous for delivering a five percent reduction in energy use and $1.5 million in cost savings, all with less than a $0.5 million investment.
Aligning Capital with the Conservation of Nature. Find out why and how The Nature Conservancy works with Wall Street. Today's environmental challenges are bigger than ever. And a rapidly growing population coupled with climate change will only exacerbate current threats. Big challenges like these will require bold solutions. The environmental movement must try new approaches and scale up our work so it’s bigger, better and faster
Kaitlin Sylvester is a marine and freshwater scientist in AECOM’s environment business. In an AECOM Impact blog post, she details her Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) diving experience, why she has such a "cool job" and why she is passionate about her work.
Mejorar la experiencia de nuestros clientes y volverla más eficiente es el objetivo de Sumando, programa que a través de diversas iniciativas y proyectos conducirá a Grupo Financiero Banorte, hacia un nuevo modelo de negocio enfocado en el cliente, el cual sin duda nos dará una ventaja competitiva única en el sector al permitirnos conocer detalladamente los gustos, las necesidades, los hábitos de compra, el estilo y las preferencias de cada cliente.
Improving and making customer experience more efficient is Sumando’s purpose, this program will lead Grupo Financiero Banorte, through various initiatives and projects, to a new business model focused on the client, which certainly will give us a competitive advantage in the industry - unique in treating each client while knowing their preferences, needs, style and purchasing habits in detail.
Smart home technology leader Nexia™ Home Intelligence, a brand of Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR), and Rachio, maker of the Iro Smart Sprinkler Controller, announced new compatibility that combines Iro’s smart-sensing irrigation technology with the convenience and flexibility of the Nexia home automation system and all-in-one app.
The 2015 results of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) Review have been announced today by RobecoSAM and S&P Dow Jones Indices. The DJSI World includes only the top 10% of companies per industry, making it the gold standard for corporate sustainability.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) TECH 2020 Task Force visited the Bloomberg Tech Hub in San Francisco on Tuesday in a final stop of a tour through Silicon Valley this week to advance the CBC TECH 2020 initiative. Launched in May, CBC TECH 2020 is a five-year plan developed to address the underrepresentation of African Americans in the technology industry.
Thinner, sleeker, and lighter are hallmarks of the marketing strategy that inoculates consumers with the obsolescence bug long before functionality actually falters.
En Amérique du Nord, septembre signifie la rentrée pour la plupart des étudiants. Chez Goldcorp, nous croyons qu’il faut redonner à la collectivité, et contribuer à l’éducation est l’une des meilleures façons de créer des bienfaits positifs à long terme dans les collectivités où nous vivons et travaillons. Nous allons partager une série d’articles au cours des prochaines semaines pour mettre en valeur les nouvelles initiatives en matière d’éducation que nous avons mises de l’avant pendant la dernière année. Cette semaine, nous vous présentons la belle histoire d’une personne qui, après avoir passé très près de décrocher à l’adolescence, termine maintenant son doctorat grâce à Passeport pour ma réussite Canada.
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In states where Key has a presence, there are approximately 1.7 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households. Many LMI individuals don’t have bank...
Focus on preventing and treating malnutrition across life stages. Highlights include early detection, community-based treatment (e.g., MUAC screening...
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