Employee Engagement

Geneva, Switzerland - The World Economic Forum is aiming to make a contribution to the field of corporate governance with a new initiative: The Global Corporate Governance Dialogue. The purpose of this dialogue is to contribute to the improvement of quality and coord...

BETHESDA, MD - Calvert, the nation’s largest family of socially responsible mutual funds, today announced the results of a Harris Interactive® investor survey, which dramatically highlights investors’ growing concerns about ethical standards at corporations and mutual...

PITTSBURGH, PA - Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA) announced today that its Alcoa-Köfém facility in Szekesfehervár, Hungary was the recipient of the first-ever Good Corporate Citizenship and Social Responsibility Award from Figyelö, the leading Hungarian business and economic j...

Washington, D.C. - What is Proxy Access?
On Oct. 15, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published proposed rules allowing shareholders a new, but severely limited ability to propose nominees for corporate boards. Earlier this year, the S...

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WASHINGTON, DC - The senior activist Gray Panthers group today called on Attorneys General across the country to prosecute WorldCom/MCI for its elaborate scheme to evade state taxes by shifting income away from states to a Delaware based subsidiary that pays no state ...

Moscow - The World Economic Forum today at its Russia Meeting 2003 presented the results of the first of a series of workshops in its new Global Corporate Governance D...

WASHINGTON, DC -- A Teamster shareholder proposal to declassify the FedEx (NYSE: FDX) Board of Directors garnered overwhelming support today at the Company's Annual Meeting. With more than twice as many shareholders voting in favor of the proposal than against it, the...

NORCROSS, GA - The collective concern over corporate fraud has inspired new regulations designed to protect whistleblowers. More and more companies are making it easier for employees to report workplace issues while remaining anonymous. Encouraging whistleblowers coul...

CHICAGO, IL - At the ninth annual OPI Conference held today at the Fairmount Hotel, Office Depot Chairman and CEO Bruce Nelson delivered a keynote address on corporate social responsibility to hundreds of representatives of the global office products industry.