ESG News from Leading Brands

Diversity & Inclusion

Bloomberg LP: The Balancing Act: Working While Parenting or Parenting While Working?

Sep 11, 2015 9:50 AM ET

With last week’s announcement that their employees will be offered unlimited maternity and paternity leave, Netflix became the latest company to address parents’ increasingly vocal desire to strike a better balance between work and family life. It’s a win for growing families everywhere. Earlier this year, Bloomberg responded to similar feedback from our employees and updated our parental leave policy to allow primary caregivers 18 weeks of fully-paid leave. But the balancing act doesn’t end there.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Celebrating Charity: TechSoup Global’s Partnership with Symantec

Sep 11, 2015 9:00 AM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

TransCanada Recognized for Efforts to Improve Air Quality

Sep 11, 2015 8:15 AM ET

TransCanada has once again been recognized for its efforts in contributing to cleaner air.

Research, Reports & Publications

How Domtar Manages it's Forestry and Fiber

Sep 10, 2015 9:45 PM ET

Events, Media & Communications

Mining the Disclosures: An Investor Guide to Conflict Minerals Reporting In Year Two

Sep 10, 2015 6:20 PM ET

Mining the Disclosures 2015: An Investor Guide to Conflict Minerals Reporting In Year Two by Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) will be a much-anticipated deep analysis of 155 companies that filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) per a mandate on whether their products contain materials from war-torn areas of Africa.

Education

BJ’s Wholesale Club Partners with More Than 200 Schools to Help Students Thrive

Sep 10, 2015 5:30 PM ET

BJ’s Wholesale Club today announced partnerships with 213 schools through the organization’s Adopt-A-School program. At the beginning of each school year, every BJ’s Wholesale Club and Distribution Center partners with a local school to help enhance existing programs and curriculum objectives. Since 1996, the program has contributed $1.9 million in funding to thousands of schools across BJ’s 15-state footprint.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Pro Bono Perspectives: Brian Glaser

Sep 10, 2015 5:15 PM ET

Common Impact is excited to launch Pro Bono Perspectives, a series of profiles – people like you – who took a leap into skills-based volunteering. From intrapreneurs, to entrepreneurs, to nonprofit executives, to corporate leaders – these individuals all have their own stories to tell, successes to share, lessons they’ve learned and tools they’ve used.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Cox and The Trust for Public Land Name Marilyn Hanson as Arizona’s 2015 Cox Conserves Hero

Sep 10, 2015 5:00 PM ET

Cox Communications and The Trust for Public Land today named Marilyn Hanson as Arizona’s 2015 Cox Conserves Hero. Hanson’s nonprofit of choice, Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center, will receive $10,000 on her behalf. The three finalists were chosen by a judging panel and then competed in an online public vote to be named Arizona’s Cox Conserves Hero.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Ingersoll Rand Selected for the 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indices for Fifth Consecutive Year

Sep 10, 2015 5:00 PM ET

Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) has been named to the 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indices (DJSI) for the fifth consecutive year. Placement on this index series further solidifies this global company's position as an economic, environmental and social leader in its industries.

Events, Media & Communications

Be Your Company's Go-To Pro on These Critical Issues

Sep 10, 2015 4:30 PM ET

The world has many multifaceted challenges that require complex solutions. This is no easy task. No cure-all or one-size-fits-all solution exists, but there are innovations, partnerships, and strategies that create a lasting impact for communities around the world.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Wounded Veterans to Summit Gannett Peak, WY on 9/11

Sep 10, 2015 3:30 PM ET

Events, Media & Communications

WestRock Talks Consumer Perspectives on Paper-Based Packaging

Sep 10, 2015 3:00 PM ET

What do consumers want in packaging? Erin Weinland of WestRock has answers.

Energy

Join National Grid to Celebrate National Drive Electric Week

Sep 10, 2015 3:00 PM ET

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Novo Nordisk Remains in Top of 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index

Sep 10, 2015 3:00 PM ET

Novo Nordisk stays in top of the pharmaceutical sector on the 2015 Dow Jones Sustainability World Index with a score of 81 out of a possible 100. The company’s overall score falls 3 points from 2014 and is 7 points behind Roche, the 2015 industry leader.

Diversity & Inclusion

Winning Over Millennials in the Workplace

Sep 10, 2015 2:45 PM ET

In our continually growing and evolving global environment, Millennials have a unique perspective as a result of being raised during an era of incredible social and technological change. According to a May 2015 TIME report, the 53.5 million millennials (aged 18-34) now constitute the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. In fact, Pew Research, estimates Millennials represent one in three American workers. While there are many opinions, positive and negative, on the Millennial generation’s dependence on technology, we cannot ignore the fact that these digitally-oriented, social networking savvy future leaders are rapidly changing what work looks like and how it gets done.

Health & Healthcare

Astellas Launches Cancer Challenge Social Media Campaign

Sep 10, 2015 2:00 PM ET

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

2015 Corporate Volunteer Awards: A Look at Finalist Old National Bank

Sep 10, 2015 2:00 PM ET

Old National Bank’s program is called ONe Community (capital ON stands for Old National). The volunteer program is structured to balance the needs of the company’s communities and the engagement and development of its associates, with its core competency of financial literacy.

Education

Can Management Education Change the Culture of Business?

Sep 10, 2015 1:30 PM ET

It was the work of organizations like the UN, AACSB International, EFMD, the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, EABIS, GMAC, GRLI, and Net Impact that led to the recognition by the United Nations of the need for a focus on the leadership being taught in higher education institutions—and in particular in management education. The PRME initiative (Principles for Responsible Management Education) was developed to fill this role eight years ago by the UN Global Compact, deans, university presidents, and representatives of business schools.

Research, Reports & Publications

Helping Local Communities Align Services for Veterans

Sep 10, 2015 1:30 PM ET

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Astellas Employees Award $200,000 in Grants to Advance Global Access to Health, Community Development

Sep 10, 2015 1:30 PM ET

Astellas Pharma today announced that it has awarded $100,000 grants each to the American Red Cross and Stop Hunger Now in support of their efforts to advance access to healthcare and expand community development around the world.

Research, Reports & Publications

T. Rowe Price Releases 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Sep 10, 2015 1:00 PM ET

T. Rowe Price has released its 2014 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, which details the firm’s efforts to promote financial education, reduce its environmental footprint, and empower associates to have an impact in their communities.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

Players Trust to Participate in 2015 Cantor Fitzgerald Charity Day

Sep 10, 2015 1:00 PM ET

On Friday, September 11, New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez will do some trading of his own – but not the baseball variety – when he represents the Players Trust at Cantor Fitzgerald’s annual Charity Day.

Social Impact & Volunteering

Republic Services Supports the 2015 Marshall County Blueberry Festival

Sep 10, 2015 12:45 PM ET

The Blueberry Festival is one of the oldest festivals in Indiana and typically draws 600,000 people every year over the Labor Day Weekend. Republic Services of Culver, Indiana has provided recycling and waste collection services for the community for many years and is a proud supporter of the Blueberry Festival.

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

H&M Joins Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the Fourth Year in a Row

Sep 10, 2015 12:40 PM ET

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Barilla's onto a Good Thing with Sustainability Strategy

Sep 10, 2015 12:40 PM ET

Right from the start, the Italian food company Barilla has combined the achievement of economic goals with social commitments to the areas in which it operates. Knowledge of social and economic contexts together with integrity, transparency and innovation, enabled the founders to identify their own entrepreneurial style, and hand it down from generation to generation.