Corporate Responsibility

World’s Largest Companies Seeing Financial Performance Aligned with Social Responsibility

Giving in Numbers, the leading benchmark on corporate giving and employee engagement patterns.

Inclusion & Opportunity

Companies Use Storytelling to Communicate Progress: 5 Reasons to Commit to Diversity and Inclusion

Facebook has figured out how to make an application so appealing that 1.13 billion people log in at least once every day. And Intel is credited with spawning the $300-billion semiconductor market, which touches every aspect of people’s lives daily.

These two highly successful technology businesses don’t have a shortage of smart people, or the cash to get things accomplished. But neither has been able to recruit and retain enough women and underrepresented minority employees.

Corporate Responsibility

The State of Sustainable Business in 2016: Results from the BSR/GlobeScan Survey

The eighth annual BSR/GlobeScan State of Sustainable Business Survey, released today, provides insights from nearly 300 business leaders from more than 150 companies into the world of sustainable business and aims to identify common perceptions and practices of corporate sustainability professionals.

Research & Reports

NS Adopts Technology to Promote Safe Driving, Save Fuel

As owner of some 6,000 trucks, SUVs, and cars used in field operations across a sprawling 22-state system, Norfolk Southern ranks as a Top 100 commercial fleet. In 2015, the company piloted a test using telematics technology to enhance driver safety. NS saw improvements across a range of driving performance metrics, including benefits beyond safety – such as better fuel economy.

Volunteering & Community

Corporate EHS & Sustainability Leaders to Participate in Platte River Cleanup in Denver for 2016 NAEM Day of Service

When NAEM joins the Greenway Foundation for a cleanup along the South Fork of the Platte River in downtown Denver later this month, its efforts will be powered by environmental, safety and sustainability leaders from companies such as Toyota Motor North America Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., Bose Corp. and The WhiteWave Foods Co.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Equitable Transit-Oriented Development: A New Paradigm for Inclusive Growth in Metropolitan America

How can our nation drive inclusive growth and reduce inequality? For one thing, the projected $2 trillion in public and private investment for transportation and housing over the next decade could be a game-changer. A new paper I have co-authored with Audrey Choi, Managing Director and Head of Morgan Stanley Global Sustainable Finance, “Equitable Transit-Oriented Development: A New Paradigm for Inclusive Growth in Metropolitan America,” proposes we take a new look at the potential of equitable transit-oriented development to create more inclusive, prosperous cities and communities.

Philanthropy

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Awards & Rankings

Patriot Subaru of Saco Wins Cox Automotive Leader in Sustainability Award

Cox Automotive presented its Leader in Sustainability Award to Patriot Subaru of Saco, Maine at the 2016 Automotive News Best Dealerships to Work For celebration this week.

Events

Ohio Diversity Council Hosts 2016 Ohio Diversity & Leadership Conference

The Ohio Diversity Council will be hosting the 2016 Ohio Diversity and Leadership Conference on October 20, 2016 at the Columbus Athenaeum.

Environment

UPS Adds 200 Hybrid Electric Vehicles To Alternative Fuel Fleet

UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced it plans to add 200 new hybrid electric delivery trucks to the company’s growing alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet. The vehicles have the same 2-cylinder engine and E-GENTM chassis as the 125 vehicles UPS announced earlier this year.

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