Business Services
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the business services industry.
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03-18-21
Closing the Gap: Removing Barriers to Create More Affordable Housing.
As the U.S. inches closer toward herd immunity and the transmission rate of the coronavirus slows, millions of Americans remain behind on rent and are struggling to stay afloat.
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03-17-21
Just Launched Delivering Net Zero Week: Creating the Roadmap and Action for Delivery
2021 is set to be a critical year in our space with the UN’s CBD COP 15 and COP26 creating two landmark dates. The challenge with meeting the Net Zero target is it relies on investments and innovations not seen in a number of decades. 2020 showed it is possible to decrease emissions but shutting dow...
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03-17-21
HelloFresh Announces Sustainability Progress and Commits to Ambitious Targets
HelloFresh, the world’s leading meal kit provider, today announced that it has exceeded its sustainability plans for 2020 and will further expand its efforts for 2021 and beyond.
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03-15-21
IBM Enters Second Phase of NIH Contract for Development of Verifiable Health Status Reporting and Contact Tracing
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has been awarded the second phase of the Digital Health Solutions for COVID-19 contract by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue its work to develop and implement digital health solutions that are designed to help address the COVID-19 pandemic in...
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03-15-21
Circular Economy: A Solution to the Covid-19 Crisis?
When the Covid-19 crisis started to unfold in early spring last year, little did we know about what we could expect. The coronavirus quickly spread around the world and pressured global leaders into taking preventive measures to contain the virus that had the potential to severely affect human healt...
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03-11-21
Moderna and IBM Plan to Collaborate on COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain and Distribution Data Sharing
Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have recently announced their intentions to explore technologies, including artificial intelligence, blockchain and hybrid cloud, that could help support smarter COVID-19 vaccine management.
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03-10-21
Voices of Change Accelerating Equality
On IWD 2021, Accenture’s 17th year celebrating International Women’s Day, many of our people continue to come together to pledge their commitment to accelerating equality for all.
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03-09-21
WBCSD Launches Carbon Transparency Pathfinder
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) has launched the Value Chain Carbon Transparency Pathfinder, a new initiative to enable widescale exchange of primary, carbon emissions data.
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03-08-21
IBM Study Finds Advancing Women is Not a Top Priority for 70 Percent of Global Organizations Surveyed
A new IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) (NYSE: IBM) study reveals that despite heightened awareness of the challenges facing women in the workplace driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, gender equity is still not a top priority for 70 percent of global businesses, according to business professionals...
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03-04-21
Taproot Foundation and Deloitte Release New Business Resource: Pro Bono + Inclusive Leadership
Taproot Foundation, in collaboration with Deloitte, announced today a free resource for businesses that examines how pro bono service is emerging as an impactful growth opportunity for cultivating inclusive leaders.
