I decided to focus this article on what I often refer to as the 4 P’s of Impact Investing. These are related to the barriers our industry faces in making private impact investments more accessible to potential investors…specifically those offered by…

Greaves believes strongly in the philosophy that childhood should be a time of fun, warmth, security, exploration and discovery – and that fulfilling the hopes and dreams of children should be a community’s highest priority. In this blog post,…

General Motors is exploring a new mapping technology from Mobileye that could use crowd-sourced real-time data collected by OnStar for precise localization and high-definition lane data that supports fully autonomous driving.

The FCA Foundation, the charitable arm of FCA US LLC, today announced $250,000 in grants to FIRST Robotics Competition (grades 9-12) and FIRST Tech Challenge (grades 7-12) teams in Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. The grants, which will…

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Customers want devices that work reliably and make daily life easier, a need that smart home pioneer Nexia™ addresses at this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The brand is unveiling new products and features that support the goal of…

Can doing good be good for business? Bloomberg, the financial data company, measures a firm's sustainability in terms of its social and environmental impact.

When it comes to nonprofit capacity building, the needs of nonprofit organizations are as varied as the issue areas in which they work. For NetSuite.org, the Corporate Citizenship arm of NetSuite, our commitment to strengthen nonprofit performance…

Many companies believe that sustainability is integral to their business, but in reality only a few of them have fully embedded sustainability into their business models.

Microsoft has named Matt Marshall, Nis Bojin, and Dallas Kasaboski the winners of the Hacking Mars Design Challege, a unique online science and technology competition launched in September and developed exclusively around the Twentieth Century Fox…

Companies worldwide will have to navigate through new CSR requirements. In India, for instance, the India Companies Act, a legislation passed into law in 2013, mandates that companies of a certain size donate 2 percent of their net profits generated…

A horticulture class from Northwest High School in Nebraska is gaining attention for their student-designed plan to reduce local flooding and absorb storm runoff by developing a rain garden on the school campus. This spring, the students will…

We are seeking five senior individuals of integrity and high reputation to join GRI’s inaugural Due Process Oversight Committee (DPOC). The DPOC has primary responsibility for ensuring that the standard-setting activities of theGlobal Sustainability…

While there can be no question that the agreement reached in Paris last week was historic, and by most measures successful, there were those that felt that without having implemented a global carbon tax, it fell short of the mark. These folks, whose…

December 7th- 13th was special for the computer science world – it was Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek). CSEdWeek always falls around December 9th, the birthday of the legendary Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, in recognition of her amazing…

“Tech entrepreneurship is close to my heart,” said Michael R. Bloomberg as we welcomed more than 150 members of the NYC technology community for the inaugural Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg speaker series.

Ever hear the expression “dig your way to China?” It was pretty common when I was a girl. My friends and I thought that if we dug hard enough, we would arrive on the other side of the world in a new land with a different culture and loads of…

2015 was a big year.

It’s the year the Internet of Things (IoT) got some ink in the dictionary. It’s the year IoT and the technology that fuels it began truly transforming our daily lives and environment. And it’s the year AT&T…

Plea bargaining has radically altered the criminal justice system in the U.S. In most jurisdictions the role of the courts is perfunctory, and the defense bar is almost always overpowered by the prosecution. It's time to look at alternative…

Recently the global TV program BBC Horizons profiled how Abbott nutrition scientists helped the international non-profit organization PATH to improve fortified rice – which has the potential to help more than 1 billion people worldwide.