The Nepalese parliament has elected women’s rights crusader Bidhya Devi Bhandari as its first female president, an important symbolic move for a country beginning to
Originally published on Ensia. Women are increasingly driving the global economy. According to a 2009 Harvard Business Review article, women controlled $20 trillion in consumer
I was shocked to read an article earlier this year pointing out that more large companies in the U.S. were run by men named John
Apple, Dow Chemical and Levis Strauss & Co. are among major U.S. corporations to publicly support the Equality Act, designed to protect all LGBT-identified Americans
The news has been full of stories about how companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Starbucks and others are able to shift their profits
Employee engagement, a term coined in the early 1990s to help measure satisfaction in the workplace, has taken on new meaning in the digital age.
Corruption touches our lives every day. It happens across the private sector as well as the public service in the realms of housing, education, health
Corporate responsibility programs boost sales, shareholder value and employee productivity, according to a study by IO Sustainability and Babson College, which set out to “fill
Evidence is mounting that green buildings have a positive effect on health outcomes for tenants, but more research is needed.
If you’re up on your celebrity gossip, you’ll know Bradley Cooper recently drove to dinner with his ex in a Prius, and Jennifer Lawrence shops
Hero: Archer Daniels Midland Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), one of the world’s largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, has committed to a “no-deforestation”
Mentions of climate change and other environmental issues saw a 17 per cent increase throughout the American media landscape in 2014, according to a new
Capitalism can do better. Business can be more responsible. Short-term profit doesn’t have to be the singular focus of private enterprise. This is what Corporate
This article was originally published on the Nonprofit Chronicles. In the summer of 2013, in a remarkable development that was little noted outside of the
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Dennis Whedbee’s crew was rushing to prepare an oil well for pumping on the Sweet Grass Woman lease site,
Walmart’s decision to increase the pay of 500,000 full-time and part-time U.S employees to $9.00 an hour, with a further increase to $10.00 an hour
It’s a frustrating situation for women to be in. Most Americans say women are “indistinguishable” from men when it comes to intelligence, capacity for innovation
Lynne Descary has had to endure more than two decades of insults, inappropriate comments about her sexuality and assertions she has taken away jobs from
Former Republican Senator Richard G. Lugar was a fixture of Washington D.C. for more than 36 years – a Senatorial tenure that spanned over six
Last month, I explored how little we know about carbon emissions. When companies say they are measuring their emissions, they are usually talking about the
This infographic is part of Deloitte’s 2015 Millenial survey. Click the image to enlarge or click here to access the full survey results.
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A significant portion of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by major companies still haven’t been measured. We have a pretty good idea of how
Asbestos is the biggest workplace safety threat Asbestos is officially Canada’s number one workplace killer. The Globe and Mail reported today that the mineral accounted for
This article is by Paul Klein, founder and president, Impakt, and Milinda Martin, vice president, community investment, corporate brand, and reputation, Time Warner Cable. January 1, 2025,
North Pole is suing a Koch-owned oil company North Pole, Alaska, is not the real North Pole, yet it embodies Christmas year-round. The town has
Clinton challenges Obama on fracking Hilary Clinton subtly positioned herself against Obama’s “all of the above” energy strategy in a speech to a League of
India to get Chinese high-speed rail? India and China are discussing the potential this week for a high-speed railway that will link India’s capital, Delhi,
Inequality is a stubborn problem A new study that analyzed the correlation between education and surnames in England between 1170 and 2012 shows that a
China commits to cutting coal The Chinese government announced yesterday that it will cap its coal use by 2020 in order to uphold its side of
