After several tornadoes hit Northwest Arkansas in late May, leaders at our Glad plant in Rogers were forced to spring into action to keep our people safe and then work to restore operations after the facility was hit directly by the storm.
There are so many brilliant minds working to develop innovative solutions to improve conditions all over the world. But what separates the business ideas that are able to make an impact on millions of lives from the ones that may only reach a few hundred people is an ability to scale.
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Update from our Executive Director
"It is a historic day at the United Nations as all Member States come together in the General Assembly to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals – laying out a path over the next 15 years to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and protect our planet."
By definition, any computing platform invented in the first half of the 1980s that has survived until 2015—and is an enormous business—has accomplished something remarkable.
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH) is proud to be the recipient of the Sustain: ABLE Award from Paralyzed Veterans of America, the only congressionally chartered veterans service organization dedicated solely for the benefit and representation of veterans with spinal cord injury or disease.
FOX and the National Geographic Channel will celebrate the work of today's leading scientists and mathematicians by broadcasting this year's Breakthrough Prize Ceremony, an awards show honoring the world's most prominent scientific researchers. Seth MacFarlane, executive producer of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and creator of Family Guy, will host the ceremony, which will air live on Nat Geo on Sunday, Nov. 8, with a one-hour version scheduled for FOX on Sunday, Nov. 29.
Long influential in the field of sustainability, Deloitte has further increased its eminence with important new appointments to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Sustainability Task Force.
Recently, Alliance Data was recognized as one of the 100 Best Workplaces for Women, a recognition we’re proud of especially since it’s given based on what women in our workforce reported via Fortune Magazine’s annual best workplaces survey about our culture and their experience here.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Corporate Citizenship Center last night recognized eight companies for their accomplishments in corporate citizenship during the 16th annual Corporate Citizenship Awards. The awards program honors businesses for their significant positive impacts in communities around the world.
FedEx Cares is our global community engagement program and one way we connect people and possibilities.We support nonprofit organizations working to...
The SCS Kingfisher certification mark is showing up on an increasing number of products around the world. It differentiates companies that are making...
