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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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Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Heading for a Circular Economy - Salzgitter AG and Ørsted Launch Strategic Partnership

Salzgitter AG and Ørsted will work together as strategic partners in the future. In a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the companies have defined their joint approach

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

It's Official: Regions Is a Great Place to Work

We’re pleased to announce that we have earned the Great Place to Work-Certified™ Company designation.

Energy

Our Mission, Our Customers, and the Year Ahead

As we enter 2022, the best approach for envisioning what the year will bring is to start with our customers. In many ways, they’re the ones driving us, trusting us, and leading us into the future.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Applied Materials Named As a 2022 Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality

Applied Materials announces it once again earned 100% on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index in 2022 for its LGBTQ+ policies and practices.

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Education

FedEx Announces Launch of Student Ambassador Program

Program to provide students from eight HBCUs with a unique, practical experience designed to help prepare them for leadership and the workforce.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Boston Scientific Named a 2022 Fortune World’s Most Admired Company

For the seventh consecutive year, Boston Scientific is recognized on Fortune’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies. Companies are selected based on nine attributes encompassing leadership, innovation, quality, social responsibility and workplace culture.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Human Rights Campaign Foundation Recognizes Duke Energy as an Inclusive Workplace

Duke Energy has received a perfect score for the fifth year in a row on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) 2022 Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking study that annually ranks companies on LGBTQ-friendly corporate practices and policies.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

CBRE Earns Place in Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for Third Consecutive Year

CBRE Group, Inc.’s continued focus on diversity, equity and inclusion earned the company a place in the 2022 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for the third year in a row.

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Education

Siemens Foundation and Discovery Education Open 2022 Possibility Grant Sweepstakes Offering Five K-12 Schools Nationwide $25,000 Total for STEM Initiatives

The 2022 Possibility Grant Sweepstakes, which offers five K-12 schools across the United States an opportunity to win a $5,000 STEM grant to purchase supplies and technology for any STEM-related initiative, is now accepting entries here.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Dow Named One of the World's Most Admired Companies by FORTUNE

Dow (NYSE: DOW) has been named to FORTUNE's World's Most Admired Companies list for 2022.

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Responsible Production & Consumption

New Sustainability Initiatives and Product Innovation From Dial®

Dial®, a trusted brand of almost 75 years, continues to evolve and look for ways to better the lives of consumers. Across everything Dial, sustainability is a core brand value.

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Arrow Electronics Tops Industry Ranking in FORTUNE's World's Most Admired Companies List For Ninth Consecutive Year

Arrow Electronics was named to FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies list, topping the “Wholesalers: Electronics and Office Equipment” category for the ninth consecutive year. Their overall score included a #1 ranking in social responsibility & innovation.

Events, Media & Communications

A Chat With Kevin O'Leary: ESG Investing for a Better Future

With razor-sharp candor and business smarts, Kevin O'Leary of ABC’s Shark Tank draws on his encyclopedic knowledge of finance, investing, economics, and business to discuss a variety of topics without pulling punches

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Energy

New Renewable Energy Deals Position Verizon to Achieve Key Energy Goal

Verizon continues to be a leading corporate buyer of U.S. renewable energy, announcing seven new Renewable Energy Purchase Agreements (REPAs) for an aggregate of approximately 910 megawatts (MW) of projected renewable energy capacity.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Beijing 2022 Venues: Reusing, Reducing and Modernising

The first city in the world to host both Summer and Winter Olympic Games (2008 and 2022), Beijing has been able to reuse many of its iconic sporting venues.

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Health & Healthcare

Illumina Collaborates With National Cancer Center Japan to Address a Leading Cause of Death in Asia

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and the National Cancer Center Japan have announced an international joint research project that will use Illumina's high-throughput DNA sequencing to analyse the blood-based genomic profile and clinical information of patients living with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.

Research, Reports & Publications

Spend Matters Vendor Analysis: Technology Review

As popular understanding of the climate crisis and a range of correlational social inequalities has, in recent years, grown exponentially, sustainability has risen to the summit of the executive agenda.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Gilead Sciences Named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality in 2022

We’re pleased to be named a Best Place to Work for LGTBQ+ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

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Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Bacardi Celebrates 160 Years With a Look Back at the Legacy It Created Since 1862

For 160 years Bacardi has developed a portfolio of iconic brands and nurtured talented teams that applaud the Company's Good Spirited CSR initiatives, family-oriented culture, and the founder's mentality & fearless attitude it instills in its people.

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Diversity & Inclusion

This Leader Works To Ensure Diversity and Inclusion Is Visible in Everything We Do

Deepak Khanna, president, Europe and Canada, demonstrates how “diversity is a fact, but inclusion is an act”

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Energy

The Most Ambitious AMD Energy Efficiency Goal Yet

After achieving in 2020 the AMD 25x20 Energy Efficiency Goal for mobile processors, the company’s engineers were hungry for a new, bold challenge in processor energy efficiency to benefit customers and our world, which we have now identified.

Diversity & Inclusion

Comcast and Team Gleason Partner to Revolutionize TV Control and More for People With Physical and Speech Disabilities

Comcast and Team Gleason have partnered to drive inclusive innovation to improve the independence and quality of life for people with physical and speech disabilities, including those living with ALS.

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Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

DraftKings Announces $1 Million+ Responsible Gaming Initiative Providing Multi-Year Financial Commitments to State Problem Gambling Councils

DraftKings Inc. has announced a multi-year financial commitment to assist the state councils across the country providing critical funding which will support the work of local nonprofit organizations.

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Education

Through the 'Mujeres en Campaña' Programme, New Holland Offers Agricultural Training for Women

New Holland Agriculture, a brand belonging to CNH Industrial, launched a dedicated Mujeres en Campaña (Women in Campaign) programme during 2021

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Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Fortune Magazine Names Truist to World's Most Admired Companies List

Being named again as one of Fortune Magazine's Most Admired Companies is a honor. Especially when the recognition is for how we do business—through real, unwavering care.

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