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Innovation & Technology

Caterpillar's Innovation Management

Caterpillar's Enterprise Technology Strategy establishes the foundation for innovation in the company's product development.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

LA Kings Team Up with Make-A-Wish Foundation for Annual ‘Hockey Fights Cancer Night’ at STAPLES Center

AEG’s LA Kings recently hosted its annual Hockey Fight Cancer™ Night, presented by Amgen's Breakaway from Cancer®, at STAPLES Center on Saturday, Nov. 23 in conjunction with the fulfillment of the club’s 4th wish granted through the Make-A-Wish Foundation in 2019.

Innovation & Technology

Atonix Digital, McEnery Automation Team Up to Broaden Reach of APM Software

Atonix Digital has partnered with St. Louis-based McEnery Automation to resell Atonix Digital’s line of asset performance management (APM) products and solutions powered by the ASSET360® analytics platform.

Social Impact & Volunteering

LIXIL Volunteers Drive Change on Third Annual LIXIL Community Day

LIXIL Community Day, which began in 2017, sees executives and employees from all workplaces and regions around the world take part in social contribution activities during working hours.

Diversity & Inclusion

Q&A with Pamela Strobel: Women Are Making Corporate Leadership Gains

Are women catching up in the race for equality at the corporate leadership level? We asked one of our board members to share her thoughts on this as well as her experiences as a woman leader in a male-dominated corporate world.

Environment

Your Guide to Building a Business Case for Sustainability

Antea Group gives you all the reasons that make sustainability of paramount importance, as well as the steps you can take to being more sustainable.

Environment

Sustainability Drives Innovation, Cost Savings at Saltstone Disposal Unit 6

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), a longtime Bechtel customer, has the mission to safely clean up the environmental legacy from decades of producing nuclear materials for national defense.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Maine University Team Awarded $250,000 Grant to Create Sustainable Food Solution

he University of Maine Farmington (UMF), The University of Maine Presque Isle (UMPI), and Food Services Provider Sodexo was one of only six teams to win the 2019 New England Food Vision Prize Award. The $250,000 prize will go toward increasing the amount of locally sourced food on campus menus.

Events, Media & Communications

3BL Media to Help ‘Supercharge’ Communications at Dec. 5 Lunch-and-Learn Session

Your company can have the best environmental, social and governance (ESG) story in the world. But sometimes, having a good story isn't enough to reach the world.

Events, Media & Communications

World Environment Center Partners with Better World Leadership to Present a Forum on “Nonprofit Board Programs to Develop Business Leaders for a Sustainable Future”

The World Environment Center (WEC) invites sustainability executives to learn and discuss the results of the new Better World Leadership (BWL) study of company practices for nonprofit board training and matching.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sustainable Investing at Northern Trust

While sustainability factors may be broad in nature, we focus on certain key issues and approaches in our Core Aspects investment framework.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Podcast: Advancing Gender Equality in Investment Management

On July 2, 2019, Jamesbeck’s Melissa Norris spoke with Cheri Belski of T. Rowe Price and Meg Staczek of Capacity Group about changes that have resulted from a November 2018 panel discussion on women in leadership, hosted by Jamesbeck.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Bringing a Pediatrician's Perspective to Philanthropy

Lauren Smith, Co-CEO of FSG, recently joined Denver Frederick, Host of The Business of Giving. Listen to their conversation about systems change, equity, and more.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Are You Ready for a World of Purpose-Led Companies?

The purpose tide is irreversible now that governments, investors, and consumers are giving preference to better companies.

Innovation & Technology

Toolkit to Advance Reporting on Modern Slavery

GRI & RLI Toolkit to Advance Reporting on Modern Slavery

Events, Media & Communications

Celebrating CECP's 20th Anniversary

Since launching in 1999, CECP has grown to a global coalition of companies creating a better world through business. Here's to the next 20, and beyond!

Health & Healthcare

Helping Deliver Mobile Healthcare in Underprivileged Communities in South Africa

Our IVECO South Africa leadership team recently donated an ambulance to the Solo Deo Gloria Health mobile clinic.

Diversity & Inclusion

Marie Cyr: From Engineering Pioneer to Mill Manager

As an engineering pioneer who has navigated a successful journey to mill manager, Marie Cyr’s advice to younger women in manufacturing is to pursue the jobs they want.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

NRG Energy Named in the Inaugural Texan by Nature 20

Texan by Nature (TxN) announced that NRG Energy has been named as an honoree of the first-ever Texan by Nature 20 (TxN20) - an official ranking of 20 companies with Texas operations that have made a demonstrative commitment to conservation.

Events, Media & Communications

AEG Hosts 8th Annual Thanksgiving Celebration at L.A. LIVE's The Novo

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Five Reasons We Are Thankful This Year

Tis the season to give thanks. At NRG, we are thankful for so much in our lives, but here are five things we’ve decided that have had a particularly positive impact on our past year.

Sustainable Development Goals

Companies, Communities Come Together To Rethink Blighted Spaces For An Equitable Future

Vacant and underused spaces tear holes in cities around the world. When large swaths of neighborhoods are left to decay, residents who can, move away—and what is left are urban deserts void of opportunities reenforcing a cycle of poverty for many.

Sustainable Development Goals

Setting the Standard for Fiber

Each year we survey our performance in important areas of environmental and social responsibility by monitoring key metrics for fiber, emissions, energy usage and the impact of our operations on air, water and solid waste.

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