Employee Engagement

WASHINGTON, DC - The 2003 proxy season is on track to be a record year for shareholder advocacy -- in terms of the number of resolutions submitted, the number of resolutions likely to come to vote and, possibly, the level of shareholder support. As of February 1, at ...

SAN DIEGO, CA – Jack in the Box Inc. (NYSE: JBX), operator and franchiser of Jack in the Box® restaurants, today announced it has received high ratings for corporate governance, as calculated by Institutional Investor Services Inc. (“ISS”), the world’s leading provide...

Tomorrow on 7 February 2003 the social partners of the European Sugar Industry, CEFS and EFFAT, will sign a joint code of conduct setting minimum standards on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in eight areas. The European Sugar Industry is the first sector to volu...

Toronto, Canada - Environics International Ltd., the global public opinion and stakeholder research company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Rt. Hon. The Lord Holme of Cheltenham CBE as Chairman of its International Advisory Council.

New York, NY - Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), a leading investment management firm serving the Catholic institutional market, today commended the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for adopting new rules requiring that registered investment advi...

NEW YORK, NY - Standard & Poor's, the leading provider of independent research, indices and ratings, today assigned its first corporate governance score (CGS) to a US company, assigning a 'CGS-9.0' to Washington, DC-based Federal National Mortgage Association (Fa...

FAIRFIELD, CT - The General Electric Company today announced that Marc J. Saperstein has been named to the newly created role of vice president, corporate citizenship, to oversee GE's philanthropic and volunteer efforts.

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DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - Trust in U.S. business has risen in the past six months despite the recent wave of corporate scandals, while European confidence in business has declined, according to

Boston - Too few companies - and too few corporate citizenship professionals - understand how to engage in effective value-based conversations about corporate citizenship.

A growing body of evidence suggests that, done well, corpo...

Brattleboro, VT -- SRI World Group, Inc., the leading objective authority on socially responsible investing, announced through its website SocialFunds.com the top social investing stories of 2002. They were: (1) substantial corporate governance reforms; (2) SRI m...