Innovation & Technology

What Learning Should Be: Skillsbuild Creates a Path for Lifelong Learning Journey

SkillsBuild is a digital platform providing jobseekers—including those with long-term unemployment, refugees, asylum seekers and veterans—a multimodal journey.

Education

IBMers Build STEM Skills in One of Latin America's Fastest Growing Tech Economies

My city of Guadalajara is known as the Mexican Silicon Valley for its rapidly increase and use of technology, solutions in the cloud, AI, and IoT. To continue growing, we have to invest in skills – early on. That’s where IBM saw an opportunity.

Innovation & Technology

Human Traffickers on Notice as IBM Activates AI Crime Fighting Tool

IBM has activated the Traffik Analysis Hub (TA Hub), used by public, private, and not-for-profit organizations as they collaborate to disrupt human trafficking.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Human Rights Day 2019: BSR Reflections on the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

As we look ahead to 2020, what are the pivotal human rights issues that businesses should be paying attention to? Here’s what BSR heard at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights.

Innovation & Technology

Research: How Technology Could Promote Growth in 6 African Countries

Africa is closely watched as the next big growth market – a description that has persisted for a while.

Innovation & Technology

The Analytics of Hope

There was a time, just a few decades ago, when the Claiborne Corridor was bustling. The string of neighborhoods that cuts across New Orleans nurtured a world-renowned jazz scene.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Sustainable Investing: The Enduring Revolution

The climate crisis is precipitating a sustainable investment revolution. Investors are putting their money where their mouth is: sustainable funds attracted $13.0 billion in net flows in the first three quarters of 2019. I expect the exponential growth of ESG investing to continue in 2020; and I think three factors largely will drive it.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Outlook 2020: Sustainable Investing & Stakeholder Capitalism

Companies face expectations to be good stewards of the environment, to treat their workers well and pay them fairly, to encourage diversity, respect human rights, deliver safe and useful products, and behave in an ethical and transparent manner. This requires making decisions through a sustainability lens, which considers all relevant stakeholders.

Innovation & Technology

Accenture Leverages AI to Help Senior Citizens Live Independently

The number of older people physically and socially isolated at home is rising rapidly around the globe. Because these people often do not have family members living nearby to help, the situation has created a new population of vulnerable people.

Innovation & Technology

General Motors and LG Chem Team Up to Advance Toward an All-Electric Future, Add Jobs in Ohio

General Motors (NYSE: GM) and LG Chem has announced plans to mass-produce battery cells for future battery-electric vehicles. Together, the companies will invest up to a total of $2.3 billion through a new, equally owned joint venture company.

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License to Operate

Corporate governance, risk management, operational integrity, and regulatory compliance are demanding challenges that companies face in today’s ever...

Subaru Share the Love® Event

Since the launch of the Subaru Share the Love Event in 2008, Subaru of America and our retailers have donated more than $256 million to charity, with...

CARE Corporate Partnerships

CARE works with corporate partners globally to invest in innovative, scalable, impactful, community-based solutions.

Employee and Community Engagement

At MilliporeSigma, we look for opportunities to use employee and community engagement to spark scientific curiosity and breakthroughs. We know that...

Accelerating access to healthcare technology

We believe technology can help close the world’s health gaps. By putting people first, we find new ways to advance health while reducing costs. And...

Putting 'H' (Humanity and Health) Into ESG

Putting 'H' (Humanity and Health) Into ESG

Halo Awards

The Halo Awards are the social impact sector’s longest-running recognition of excellence in corporate–nonprofit partnerships. For more than two...

Collective Action

Cascale shares updates on its efforts and initiatives geared toward activating its ecosystem to develop and scale solutions that drive collective...

Key Supports Affordable Housing

KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment helps fulfill Key’s purpose to help clients and communities thrive by financing projects that...

SustainabilityHQ.com Weekly Highlights

Highlighting the top news, commentary, and research for the week coming from SHQ. The highlights newsletter also spotlights one profiled organization...