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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement | Verizon

Entrepreneur Expands Her Thriving Tax Firm With Digital Innovation

Helen Mathis taught accounting as a vocational instructor for 30 years before facing a career-defining moment: The school where she worked closed and Mathis knew she needed a new plan

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Diversity & Inclusion

Lenovo Sparks National Effort to Increase Diversity of Patent Holders in Tech

Efforts to increase diversity in a corporation are not new, and the payoff of creating a diverse and inclusive workforce has been shown time and time again.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Bonnie Wongtrakool, Global Head of ESG Investments and Portfolio Manager at Western Asset Management, co-founds the California Chapter of the Bloomberg Women's Buy-Side Network

With the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Network seeks to increase female representation in portfolio manager and other senior-level investment industry positions through education, mentoring and networking opportunities.

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Health & Healthcare

Alkermes Highlights Ongoing Investigational Immuno-oncology Clinical Trials

Alkermes is committed to researching and developing potential new cancer treatment options that may help address unmet patient needs.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Increasing Women's Representation in Cybersecurity

NortonLifeLock and NASSCOM Foundation in India partner on the Cyber Security Skills Development Initiative for Women. The program is designed to create greater opportunities for female engineering grads by equipping them with in-demand job skills.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Why Work at Acre?

Three members of the Acre US team have been waxing lyrical about why they joined the market leader in sustainability and safety recruitment and the impact it has had on their career.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Musim Mas Leads in Palm Oil Sector at the Largest Sustainability & Environmental Awards in Indonesia: PROPER Awards 2021

Musim Mas Group achieved 11 Green PROPER Awards in 2021 – the highest number of PROPER Awards for a palm oil company, representing results that are “beyond the environmental compliance criteria.”

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Circular Economy at Owens Corning: Working to Reduce Our Environmental Impact in Manufacturing and Transportation

Raw materials, waste, energy, and emissions are minimized through innovative design to reduce waste and energy consumption. See how we’re optimizing sustainability each step of the way.

Social Impact & Volunteering

First Responder Virtual Reality Training: No Risk, All Reward

Pellston Public Schools recently purchased virtual reality (VR) fire and law enforcement training tools. The equipment brings some real-life experience to the classroom—without the real-life risk attached to it.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

IWBI Closes Out 2021 With Continued Growth of Membership Program

The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is pleased to announce new organizations that have joined its membership program, an expanding program that offers commercial benefits, as well as brand visibility and networking opportunities.

Environment

Ecocentricity Blog: At the Beach

Coastal habitat degradation is currently a contributor to global warming, but it doesn’t have to stay that way. If we prioritize the conservation, management, and regeneration of coastal ecosystems, we can turn that ship around.

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Innovation & Technology

How Algorithms and Algorithmic Bias Shape Our Lives at Work

From hiring and promotion to scheduling, algorithms play an essential role in analyzing data for decision-making or automating processes.

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Health & Healthcare

Abbott Announces Future of Biowearables at Consumer Electronics Show

Making CES history, Abbott presented a keynote at the most influential tech event in the world, the first healthcare company ever to do so.

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Research, Reports & Publications

Georgia-Pacific: Sustainable Outcomes That Benefit Society

The role of business in society is to help people improve their lives by providing products and services they value more highly than their alternatives, and to do so responsibly while consuming fewer resources.

Environment

Bayer Invites Global Researchers to Submit Novel Crop Protection Compounds Through New Testing4Ag Program

Bayer today announced the launch of Testing4Ag, a new program which allows research scientists to submit novel chemistries to Bayer for testing in hopes of identifing potential new modes to control fungal diseases, insect pests, or weeds.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Tetra Tech Wins 2021 SAME Large Business Award

The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) selected Tetra Tech as the recipient of its 2021 SAME Large Business Award.

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Sustainable Development Goals

Understanding Triple-Bottom-Line Value

The late eighties and early nineties were a watershed period for our global society.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Trane Technologies Named to JUST Capital's 2022 JUST 100 List

Trane Technologies has been named one of America’s Most JUST Companies for the fifth consecutive year, and a member of the JUST 100 by JUST Capital.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

National Grid Wins Two EEI Awards for Emergency Response

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) has announced National Grid as a recipient of EEI’s Emergency Response Award and Emergency Recovery Award.

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Research, Reports & Publications

MENTOR Launches a New, Free Resource During National Mentoring Month

MENTOR, the unifying champion for the mentoring movement, has released a new, free resource for mentors: Becoming a Becoming a Better Mentor: Strategies to be There for Young People.

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Innovation & Technology

Illumina Announces New Innovative Partnerships, Along With New Groundbreaking Technologies at 2022 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) Chief Executive Officer, Francis deSouza, discussed the company's strong growth trajectory, including 2021 results and 2022 guidance. deSouza also announced new partnerships and technologies that will advance the company's mission of improving human health by unlocking the power of the genome.

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Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Invenergy Announces Approximately $3 Billion Investment From Blackstone Infrastructure Partners to Accelerate Renewable Development Activities

Blackstone Inc. announced that funds managed by Blackstone Infrastructure Partners have entered into a definitive agreement with CDPQ and Invenergy for an approximately $3 billion equity investment in Invenergy Renewables Holdings LLC.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Developing Future Social Justice Leaders at Tougaloo College

As the ninth of 13 children, Dr. Carmen J. Walters grew up in New Orleans, where her father built houses during the day and worked at the railroad at night, and her mother did a variety of jobs, such as cooking for local schools.

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Environment

Energy Transfer and the Arbor Day Foundation Partner to Plant 25,000 Trees

Dallas-based Energy Transfer is partnering with the Arbor Day Foundation to plant 25,000 trees this year in three domestic forests.

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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Grupo Modelo Partners With WestRock and Grupo Gondi in Transition to CanCollar® Eco Packaging, Eliminating Over 100 Tons of Plastic Waste

In a partnership with WestRock and Grupo Gondi, Grupo Modelo is investing roughly 4 million dollars in the sustainable, fiber-based CanCollar® Eco solution in Quintana Roo, a Mexican state on the Yucatan Peninsula.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Whirlpool Corporation Named One of America's Most Just Companies for 2022

Whirlpool Corp. has been recognized as one of America's Most JUST Companies in the annual rankings published today by CNBC and JUST Capital.

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