Corporate Responsibility

Intuitively, companies often are on a growth plan to exceed their expectations for the year. This often comes when ant sized organization/enterprise has a desire to expand into global markets and have a broader reach to its potential consumers.

Citizens of the port city of Tianjin are growing more concerned in the aftermath of the chemical warehouse explosion that left over 100 people dead. As the investigation into the causes behind the explosions continue to unfold, it is becoming apparent that the warehouse in question was one of many that violated safety regulations. According to satellite images and a probe into public records, many buildings across China store toxic chemicals too close residential areas and majors roads.

Biomimicry is a hot topic...providing breakthrough, sustainable solutions at a time when our world desperately needs them.

Novartis has renewed its pledge with the World Health Organization (WHO) to work to end leprosy by extending its donation of multidrug therapy (MDT) medicines to treat leprosy through the year 2020. This five-year agreement includes treatments worth more than USD 40 million and up to USD 2.5 million to support the WHO in handling the donation and logistics. Overall it is expected that the program will reach an estimated 1.3 million patients during the next five years. This is part of the company’s commitment in 2012 to the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases.

“It is important to Grupo Financiero Banorte to listen to and maintain an open dialogue with its stakeholders,” stated Mayra Hernández, Executive Director of Social Responsibility. That is why we seek a positive impact with each one of our decisions, decisions that we have transformed into various actions and initiatives in response to social issues relevant to our stakeholders.

Finding solutions to some of the tough environmental issues facing the aerospace industry isn’t easy or fast. But Jill Seebergh and a team of engineers and scientists in Boeing’s Chemical Technology Group aren’t daunted by the long lead times in research and development.

For several years now, Grupo Financiero Banorte has had a strategy for environmental responsibility with the goal of conserving resources and generating environmental awareness among employees, customers and suppliers through various efforts.

We are going back to our roots this week and talking about our raison d’être: skills-based volunteering. Common Impact has been in this line of work for fifteen years and in that time we’ve seen a true evolution in corporations’ and nonprofits’ understanding of pro bono work.

Desde hace ya varios años, Grupo Financiero Banorte puso en marcha una estrategia de responsabilidad ambiental, con la meta de conservar recursos y a través de diversas acciones generar una conciencia ambiental entre colaboradores, clientes y proveedores.