Corporate Responsibility

Timberland Volunteers Leave Their Footprint in the Community for the Company’s 20th Annual Serv-a-Palooza

While the name Serv-a-Palooza may conjure thoughts of the mid-to-late 1990s, global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland’s enthusiasm for its annual day of service is as current as ever. Over 350 employees of Timberland’s Stratham, New Hampshire headquarters and guests pulled on their boots on September 14 to serve at seven community projects aimed to make nearby communities a little brighter.

Inclusion & Opportunity

How Diversity Leads to Better Technology

Our world is changing more quickly than ever through the advent of digital technology. Fuencis Gómez, Vice President of Digital Banking at Scotiabank Mexico, remembers the beginning of her digital journey. “I had the opportunity to experience the first stages of e-commerce in the travel industry in 1997. Twenty years later, we see that those first technology players are now the leaders in travel.”

Corporate Responsibility

Recognition: A Key Dimension for Employee Quality of Life

It’s estimated that disengaged workers cost the Canadian business economy over $350 billion annuallyin lost productivity. According to the Management Journal’s semi-annual Employee Engagement Index, approximately 60 percent of employees are not engaged, 15 percent are actively disengaged at work and only 25 percent are actively engaged. Why are these statistics important to businesses and economic growth?

Education & Workforce Development

‘Roadtrip Nation’ Announces the Premiere of ‘A Balanced Equation,’ a New Series Highlighting Women in STEM

Roadtrip Nation, renowned for its New York Times best-selling career guide and award-winning documentary television series, announced today that a new documentary, “Roadtrip Nation Presents: A Balanced Equation,” will air on American Public Television stations nationally starting on September 1. Made possible by the support of AT&T, through its AT&T Aspire initiative, and distributed through KQED, “A Balanced Equation”—the fourteenth season of “Roadtrip Nation”—follows three young women on a cross-country journey as they meet and interview women who have built fulfilling careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Research & Reports

VMware Global Impact Report: Annual Progress Update

VMware has a reputation for tackling big challenges boldly. Nowhere is this more evident than in our journey to leave ahead a better future, particularly when it comes to the environment and society. In 2016, we presented our first ever Global Impact Report, “Force for Good,” which details 15 ambitious aspirations and goals we have set out to reach by 2020.

Environment

TD and Bloomberg BNA Bring Industry Leaders Together to Discuss Transition to Low-Carbon Economy

TD Bank Group and Bloomberg BNA recently launched a two-year program, the TD-Bloomberg Sustainable Dialogues, that will host a series of dialogues to bring together industry leaders to talk about what it will take to meet 2030 targets and transition to a low-carbon economy. The series kicked off at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit in Toronto on September 27, 2017, with over 20 speakers at the event from industry, government and not-for-profit.

AI & Technology

Arrow Hosts Mountain Plains Minority Supplier Development Counsel

Arrow Electronics’ global headquarters campus located just outside Denver was one of five stops on the Mountain Plains Minority Supplier Development Counsel’s (MPMSDC) annual bus tour event last month.

Corporate Responsibility

Playing for a Sustainable Future

In 2015, World Leaders in the United Nations came together to face the future. A future where the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are reached; one where extreme poverty is ended, inequality and injustice are fought, and the planet is protected.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Major Investors and Businesses Support Staying the Course on Strong Vehicle Rules

Today, 36 institutional investors with over $813 billion in assets and a network of major businesses with over $400 billion in revenue, called on the Trump administration to not weaken the current light-duty vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse-gas emissions standards. The ask comes in the form of a Washington D.C.-focused ad blitz as well as letters to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Philanthropy

De Beers Partners With Local Institutions to Provide Free Wifi to Young People

A partnership involving De Beers Group has brought free wifi to the Oppenheimer Park in Kimberley to help scores of young South Africans without access to the internet.

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