Coronavirus Is Putting Corporate Social Responsibility to the Test

Companies: Your key constituencies—your employees, your customers, your communities, and your partners—will long remember how you acted during this crisis. Advice from FSG co-founder Mark Kramer on HBR.

ON Semiconductor Funds Local High School’s Global Initiative Microbiology Research

As Nelson Mandela says, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Education is the key to eliminating gender inequality, to reducing poverty, to creating a sustainable planet, to preventing needless deaths and illness, and to fostering peace.

Building a Sustainable Mung Bean Farming System in Bangladesh

Japanese company euglena Co. has joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with a commitment to contract more than 10,000 farmers in Bangladesh through Grameen euglena, a joint venture with the Grameen Krishi Foundation in Bangladesh

Bayer Employees Volunteer to Conduct SARS-CoV-2 Tests in Newly Established Berlin Laboratory

Our newly established testing laboratory in Berlin which supports the fight against the Corona virus is already running: In the lab, our employees – more than 140 have volunteered – are able to conduct up to 1,000 additional SARS-CoV-2 tests per day.

An Open Letter from our Chairman and CEO

When the news of the coronavirus first emerged, Gilead immediately began to investigate the potential of remdesivir, a medicine we had been studying for many years as part of our extensive research in antivirals.

Scaling Regenerative Agriculture: What We Can Learn From Innovative Beverage Companies

Grow smarter, not harder. That’s regenerative agriculture in a nutshell. It’s a back-to-nature approach to growing that not only aims to do no environmental harm but also progressively improve ecosystems.

Electrolux Highlights Lower Emissions and Introduces New Framework in 2019 Sustainability Report

Electrolux, a sustainability leader in the appliance industry, reports a 75% reduction in CO2 emissions from its operations since 2005. To reflect the Group’s new commitment to become climate neutral across the supply chain by 2050, and its increasingly holistic approach to sustainability, the overall sustainability framework has also been updated.

CSR-related Crisis Response -- Plan Ahead, But Expect Unique Challenges

Michele Robinson-Pontbriand, Director of CSR at Keysight, knows that the COVID-19 crisis has changed the world drastically, but the tenants of CSR-related efforts are similar. Strong policies must be trusted when unique challenges are anticipated.

General Mills Supports Employees and Communities in Response to COVID-19

General Mills announced a series of actions to support employees and communities in response to COVID-19, including
$5 million in charitable grants to support food access in our key global markets and support for our manufacturing communities.

A Role for Technology in Helping Find Missing Children

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was founded in 1984, following several cases of child abduction that caught the nation’s attention.

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