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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Path to Pro Instructor Uses Knowledge and Experience To Teach the Next Generation of Tradespeople

Being able to use his hands to create something out of nothing is what John Haynes enjoys most about the skilled trades industry. The retired U.S. Air Force Veteran watched his dad and grandfather in construction growing up, so it was only natural to learn the skills.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bath & Body Works Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and Showcases Perfumer Patty Hidalgo

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month and as a part of our ongoing perfumer series, we’re spotlighting renowned perfumer Patty Hidalgo.

Health & Healthcare

Cummins Plant Begins Building Prototype of Fuel Agnostic Engines To Prepare for Production

After building its 5 millionth engine, Cummins Inc.’s Rocky Mount Engine Plant (RMEP) in North Carolina is continuing its long history of innovation in engine technology and manufacturing. The next stop? Building fuel-agnostic engines in its VPI Lab.

Health & Healthcare

Virus Hunt Zooms In To Focus on New Potential Pandemics

Members of the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition have recently contributed to two studies that involve the scrutinization of a virus to establish whether it has the potential to become an outbreak.

Health & Healthcare

Why Pathogen Surveillance Is Critical During a “Tripledemic”

The 2022–23 “tripledemic” season—in which influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) all surged at the same time—was especially bad for Arizona, says Efrem Lim, an Arizona State University (ASU) virologist with the Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics

Research, Reports & Publications

New Global Study Into Clean Energy Reveals the World Is United on Renewable Energy With Solar Power Being Favoured by 68% of the World’s Population

The study highlights that solar power, followed by energy sources wind energy (54%), hydropower (36%) and nuclear energy (22%) are the future of our clean energy transition.

Health & Healthcare

Making a Difference for Those Impacted by Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

At Viatris, we realized that we had a powerful platform, as the world’s largest producer of HIV drugs by volume, to help those living with TB around the world, including the regions where the TB burden is the highest – in low- and lower- middle-income countries.

Events, Media & Communications

Find Your Way Through Adversity and Achieve Your Greatest Potential: A PNC Hispanic Heritage Month Event

From growing up in a Mexican orphanage to creating the wildly successful Maggie's All Natural Fresh Salsa's & Dips starting with an $800 investment, her story shows how anyone can find their way through adversity to achieve their greatest potential.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Mary Kay Celebrates 60 Years of Pink Doing Good

Mary Kay Ash once said, “There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Rockwell Automation Donates To Aid Moroccan Earthquake Relief

Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) has made a $20,000 donation to the Red Cross to support relief efforts following the recent earthquake in Morocco, the country’s deadliest earthquake in more than a century. The company will also match employee donations.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Putting Circularity to Work

Can businesses embrace circularity without compromising profitability? Kurt Ritter, The Coca-Cola Company’s vice president and general manager of sustainability North America, joins Mandi McReynolds in the third episode of the ESG Talk Climate Week series.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Employee Feedback and Engagement at Qualcomm

We provide employees with frequent opportunities to share their feedback on what it’s like for them to work at our Company. We hold company-wide and business unit “All Hands” meetings on a quarterly basis to give employees opportunities to ask questions.

Diversity & Inclusion

The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation and Founder Taraji P. Henson Expand Partnership With Kate Spade New York To Bring Culturally Competent Mental Health Services to Women at Hampton University

This fall, The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation (BLHF) and kate spade new york proudly announce the expansion of their joint program, the “She Care Wellness Pods”, which aims to reach over 25,000 Black women on HBCU campuses with frontline mental wellness care.

Environment

IBM Announced as a Sponsor of 2023 U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28)

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced its role as an Associate Pathway Partner of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28).

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Sofidel America Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary at Circleville, Ohio Plant

Sofidel America would like to thank the Circleville plant employees and their families who took time out of their day to celebrate Sofidel America’s 10 Year Anniversary with us! We look forward to years of continued success, innovation and growth in the tissue industry.

Health & Healthcare

Speaker Spotlight: Food as Medicine

Part of the DNA of the WELL Summit is bringing our community closer, and one way to do that is getting to know more about our speakers–and staff–and what personally drives their commitment to the movement.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Covia’s Tunnel City Plant Give Back to Its Community

Covia's Tunnel City Plant is located in Tomah, Wisconsin. Tomah. While Tomah is known for its beautiful natural surroundings, including some impressive hiking trails and lakes, it is also home to nearly 70 dedicated Covia Team Members.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CACI’s Cyber Range Technology Wins the “Made with Unity Recognition Award”

CACI International Inc’s engineers are adept at using unexpected resources to drive innovations that create mission critical solutions, as shown by the development of the cyber range training tool, City Block.

Innovation & Technology

New Holland Presents Biomethane Tractor at the Aapresid Congress

New Holland Agriculture, a brand of CNH Industrial, recently attended the 31st Aapresid Congress, the Argentine Association of Producers in Direct Sowing, which took place at the Metropolitan Convention Center of Rosario, Santa Fe, from August 9 to 11.

Research, Reports & Publications

Eaton’s Sustainability Strategy Addresses ESG Issues While Meeting Today’s Intelligent Power Needs

The world is experiencing some of the most important secular growth trends that we will see in our lifetime: the explosive rise of digitalization and the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Chemours Washington Works Committed to Responsible Manufacturing Essential Solutions and Conservation Projects

From the cell phone in your hand, to fostering education in Wood County, to the habitats we conserve—Chemours Washington Works plays an important role.

Innovation & Technology

LyondellBasell Launches New Product Grades of CirculenRecover in North America

LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) today announced the launch of eight new product compounds under the CirculenRecover portfolio.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Gen Z Is Penning a New Golden Age of Journalism

Journalism’s “Golden Age” was very different from the profession today. It’s no longer about getting the big interview or capturing the nation’s attention with a blockbuster story. Now, anyone can simply go online to report their own news.

Events, Media & Communications

ESG Talk: GRI + Deloitte

GRI is excited to announce that Executive leadership is featured on the ESG Talk podcast Navigating Global ESG Reporting Standards.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

What Is Double Materiality? A More Holistic View of Impact

What is double materiality? Our latest blog post offers a high-level primer on this important financial reporting principle.

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    The business landscape is reorienting itself and you can almost hear priorities shifting toward change-readiness and the bigger picture. And in this...
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    Ongoing research into innovative solutions enables CNH’s brands to manufacture products that respect the environment while satisfying customers’...
  12. Environment: Building a More Sustainable Future
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