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T-Mobile headquarters
A Headquarters Ahead of the Curve

T-Mobile International AG

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Social Impact & Volunteering

Culture Still Eats Strategy for Breakfast: And It's Not as Hard to Shape as You Think

An oft-quoted statement from acclaimed management consultant Peter Drucker asserts that "culture eats strategy for breakfast." Yet even today, many companies pay more attention to their strategies than their underlying culture, often at the expense of success. That's because many business leaders think that changing corporate culture is near impossible, while shifting a strategy is only a productive whiteboarding session and a new scorecard away.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

The Corporate Grantmaker's Guide to Data

Data is how you measure your impact, but access and interpretation are the only way you can make those measurements. The options to put this data to work are growing. What do you need? Here’s the corporate grantmaker’s guide to data.

Environment

Arrow Value Recovery in the Circular Economy

There’s lots of talk about the “circular economy” without a lot of explanation of why we call it circular. We get the idea that we’re closing a loop (a decidedly circular image) and that we’re bringing things back (full circle, as it were). But first it’s important to understand the departure from our current linear economy, which is decidedly one directional.

Environment

Carnival Corporation to Host The Nature Conservancy’s Mapping Ocean Wealth Annual Meeting

Carnival Corporation & plc, the world's largest travel and leisure company, will welcome representatives from leading conservation, science and sustainability organizations Jan. 26-27 to its Miami headquarters for The Nature Conservancy’s Mapping Ocean Wealth annual forum. Carnival Corporation, in partnership with the Carnival Foundation, awarded a $2.5 million gift over five years in 2014 to support The Nature Conservancy’s work on Mapping Ocean Wealth and global marine protection priorities, and hosting this week’s summit at the company’s headquarters underscores its commitment to a healthy and sustainable environment.

Health & Healthcare

Harlem First: Symposium

MFA Design for Social Innovation at the School for Visual Arts is bringing diverse voices together to understand why our neighborhoods are not as healthy as they should be, and what we can do about it.

On Monday February 1, join an extraordinary panel of speakers in a conversation that involves all the people involved in health in this community in finding solutions.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Davos 2016: CSR Takes Mainstage to Address Major Global Issues

On the heels of COP21 in December is the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), taking place this week in Davos, Switzerland. As world leaders in business and government convene to discuss the most pressing global economic issues, social and environmental topics have taken center stage.

Environment

AIDA Cruises Achieves Positive Sustainability Result in 2015

AIDA Cruises, a pioneer in the German cruise industry when it comes to sustainability, successfully continued in its commitment to reduce emissions in 2015.

Events, Media & Communications

3BL Media Lunch & Learn, Feb. 9: How Sustainability Communicators Distribute Content

Communications professionals responsible for telling their organizations’ CSR and sustainability stories are invited to a lunch-and-learn webinar Feb. 9 to hear how leading corporations are leveraging 3BL Media’s distribution platform to reach target audiences.

Events, Media & Communications

5th GRI Global Conference 2016: 5 Days Left for Early Bird Registration

Join GRI and up to 1,500 sustainability leaders for frank and forward thinking discussions on the latest trends and innovations shaping sustainability: policy, standards and technology to name a few. 5 DAYS LEFT TO SECURE YOUR REDUCED RATE - REGISTER NOW!

Health & Healthcare

Closing the Gap on Health Inequality

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

National Grid Foundation Helps Keep the Heat On

Health & Healthcare

Net Impact Announces Newman’s Own Foundation Challenge

Education

HP LIFE 2.0: Free Online Learning for Entrepreneurs

Energy

With Solar ITC Extended, Net Metering Battles Rage On

With the solar investment tax credit (ITC) recently extended for five years, it would seem that the coast is now clear for the solar boom to continue expanding at an ever-accelerating pace.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Is a Perfect Pipeline Safety Record Possible?

After 20 years, Tuscarora Gas Transmission’s safety record remains unblemished.

Education

JobTrain Creates Sustainable Employment Opportunities

Vocational training programs are typically viewed as a lesser option than universities.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Time Warner Cable Employees Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

At Time Warner Cable, diversity and inclusion are an integral part of our culture. We believe in an inclusive environment, where you can bring your whole self to work. This extends into our work in the communities that we live in and serve.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Timberland Presidential Town Halls for Employees Continue This Week with Two Candidate Visits

This week, Timberland continued its tradition of hosting current presidential candidates during the lead-up to presidential elections, as part of its commitment to community engagement.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

CSR Podcast with Shake Shack's Supply Chain Guru

This Q&A with Amoscato is an edited excerpt from a "Sustainable Business Fridays" conversation March 27 by the Bard MBA in Sustainability program, a graduate program at Bard College in New York. This twice-monthly dial-in conversation features sustainability leaders from across the globe.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Reaping the Rewards of Supporting Dairy Farmers More by Tetra Pak

There’s a Polish proverb that goes: “If the farmer is poor, then so is the whole country”. It’s a problem that Tetra Pak is highly aware of – it recognizes the link and knows that for it to succeed and grow, it needs the markets in which it operates, to do the same.

Environment

Trane Educates Industry on Refrigerant Advances at the 2016 ASHRAE Winter Conference

To help organizations positively impact their environmental footprint, leaders from Trane will present on refrigerant advances to lower greenhouse gas emissions at the 2016 American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Winter Conference, Jan. 23-27 in Orlando.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

U.S. Manufacturers Find the Right Shore in Mexico

Check out this podcast on U.S. manufacturers moving to Mexico and recent trade reforms

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