Corporate governance refers to the structure and value, which determine corporate direction and performance. The framework depends on the legal, regulatory, institutional, and ethical environment of the company's stakeholder community.
TORONTO,CANADA. - November 21, 2008 – Today RONA announced a new wood procurement policy. The RONA announcement will benefit all forests and forest-dependent communities and have a positive effect on the future condition of our air and fresh water supplies. The Forest Stewardship...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – November 20, 2008 - Today, the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) released the "Guide to Successful Corporate-NGO Partnerships," a comprehensive resource for designing, implementing and measuring the benefits of partnerships between businesses and...
TORONTO, CANADA. - November 19, 2008 - For the second year in a row, Maytree Foundation announced and celebrated the winners of its Annual Diversity in Governance Awards at a gala event held Wednesday, November 12. Just as U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, with...
TORONTO, CANADA - November 14, 2008 - According to the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) in Canada, risk and uncertainty are the new business certainties. Says Executive Director David Petrie, "The only thing we can count on is living in uncertain...
NEW YORK, NY. - November 6, 2008 - GovernanceMetrics International (GMI), the corporate governance research and ratings firm, announced today that UBS Investment Bank has purchased a minority stake in the company. Through the arrangement, UBS analysts will have access to GMI's proprietary...
TOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Owens Corning (NYSE: OC), a world leader in glass fiber reinforcements and building materials systems, announced today that it will reduce its total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent per unit of production from 2006 to...