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Salt Lake City 2002: A Springboard for the Growth of Winter Sport

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DESCRIPTION: The Olympic Winter Games Salt Lake City 2002 served as a springboard for growing winter sport and bringing more major sporting events to the state of Utah. Salt Lake City 2002 helped to heal a nation reeling from the terrorist attack in the U.S. SOURCE: International Olympic Committee. on 11 September 2001.

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Return of the original Corporate Knight

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In 2007, Benedek left his academic job and founded Anaergia, which converts organic food waste into biofuels, such as renewable natural gas. That drive led him to found the company that topped our first list of the 50 Best Corporate Citizens 20 years ago (Zenon ranked first in 2002 and 2004). For 2002, it’s King of the Castle.”.

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As corporate leaders pledge to embrace purpose beyond profit, are business schools keeping up?

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As schools revamp curricula, calls mount to rethink traditional research and academic promotion practices. “We Amid some progress, he cites a peer-reviewed academic journal’s decision to accept scholarly papers on how marketing can contribute to a better world. Some academics successfully pivoted years ago.

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Should corporations be activists?

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Hawn and Aharon Mohliver, a strategy and entrepreneurship professor at London Business School, tracked shareholder responses to American company rankings on the annual corporate equality index (a measure of social responsibility) between 2002 and 2018. It is bigger than a business case.”.

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Alzheimer’s Association Houston Launches Sustainability Initiative, Thanks to Green Mountain Energy Sun Club

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Locally, the Alzheimer's Association currently funds more than $10 million in research at six academic institutions. “We Since its founding in 2002, Sun Club has donated more than $14 million for 164 projects across Texas and the Northeast. By driving global research, they reduce risk and improve early detection.

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The Learning Center K-8 School Begins School Year with New Outdoor Classroom from Green Mountain Energy Sun Club

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Since 2002, Green Mountain Energy Sun Club has been empowering local communities by donating nearly $13 million to 156 nonprofit organizations across Texas and the Northeast. Since its founding in 2002, Sun Club® has donated more than $13 million to 156 nonprofit organizations across Texas and the Northeast.

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STEM Leader Marlene Watson Receives the 2023 AISES Ely S. Parker Award

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Her record of academic achievement is impressive. Watson, who is Navajo (Diné) from Wide Ruins, Arizona, and Tohlakai, N.M. , was raised in Oakland, Calif. Her clans are Kinlichii’nii (Red House People), and Nakai Diné (Mexican Clan People). Watson has had a distinguished and varied career spanning 38 years.

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