A new survey from Hays Senior Finance, working with expert coach/ mentors LeaderShape, shows that coaching is often undertaken without evaluating the return on investment. The survey also shows that 68% of businesses fail to use coaching directly to address corporate objectives and outcomes are often simply referenced at a personal level.

Drishti-Soft Solutions and Orange Garden Indonesia enter into a strategic partnership alliance to explore the enterprise communications market in Indonesia

Goods & Service tax (GST) is the most talked about topic in the field of indirect taxation today in India. Everybody is keenly waiting for the proposed GST draft which will replace the existing system of VAT in India. The central government wants the GST to be implemented in India by 1st April, 11.

Limited to 30 students per classroom, participants receive level-the-playing-field business knowledge in key areas of sustainable brand building. Students come from brand management and corporate sustainability suites to study either Brand Strategy, Communications, Product Design, Supply Chain or Data & Metrics, or to join all 5 back-to-back courses for an end-to-end look at the business of brand sustainability.

This is the first tropical sustainable cattle standard developed for a voluntary certification system. It will be available to cattle farms in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania that are interested in improving their environmental, social, labor and operational performance and marketing their products with the Rainforest Alliance Certified™ seal.

Root Capital provides capital, delivers financial training, and strengthens market connections to small and growing businesses – such as farmer cooperatives – that build sustainable livelihoods and transform rural communities in poor, environmentally vulnerable places. Since its launch in 1999, it has provided more than $200 million in loans to 282 small and growing businesses, representing 400,000 individuals in 30 countries throughout Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Root Capital maintains an impressive 99% repayment rate from its borrowers and a 100% repayment rate to

The 36-month electricity contract includes Renewable Energy Certificates that will save an estimated 105 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions — the equivalent of CO2 emissions from 28,909 gallons of gasoline, based on a U.S. non-baseload CO2 emissions rate — over the contract period.

For every person that visits www.LetsTalkPeriod.com and registers their email address during September 2010, Seventh Generation will donate $1 in their name to OCRF to support programs for those battling the disease. The donation will be capped at $10,000.

Tessitura members are executives and administrators, fundraisers, marketers, web and social media specialists, and box office managers for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations with annual operating budgets ranging from less than $1 million up to $300 million. According to its licensees, Tessitura software supported tens of millions of ticketing and admissions transactions and processed hundreds of millions in donations during 2009.

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The all-new Ford Focus Electric, which debuts in late 2011 in the U.S. and 2012 in Europe, will be powered by a lithium-ion battery system that utilizes cooled and heated liquid to regulate battery temperature, extend battery life and maximize driving range

The Five Star Restoration Program grants will fund a range of projects, from restoring ocean-side bluffs in Golden Gate National Park to re-planting neglected urban forests in Philadelphia. Additional project locations include Boston, Indianapolis, Memphis, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Oakland, and the greater Los Angeles area.

The platform helps Children International manage their product donations more efficiently. Items such as clothes, textbooks, school supplies, shoes, hygiene items and medical supplies needed to help children and families living in poverty around the world are donated by Children International corporate partners through the website. The new web platform will also provide Children International and its international agencies throughout Latin America, Asia, Africa and the United States the ability to post their needs on the Aidmatrix Network and share them with all the members.

Rise in spending power leads to increase in consumption of paints and coatings LANXESS manufactures pigments and preservatives for the paints and coatings industry

Amdocs Limited (NYSE: DOX) today announced that Dov Baharav, President and CEO of Amdocs Management Limited.