ITT has won the Diversity Leader award from Profiles in Diversity Journal for the second year in a row, the company announced this week. Diversity is becoming an ever-more popular way to attract the best and brightest to the world of government contracting. The company was honored for its inclusive hiring and promotion policies, as [...]
The Northern Virginia Family Service has awarded High Performance Technologies, Inc. a 2010 CARE Award, recognizing it for being a family-friendly workplace. The award, which stands for Companies As Responsive Employers, has been awarded to HPTi four years in a row. Some of the company’s policies include a parking subsidy, telecommuting option and laptop-purchase program. [...]
Alion Cares, the charity arm of Alion Corporation, has donated $47,072 to Our Military Kids, a charity providing after-school care and tutoring to children of Armed Forces personnel. Chief Executive Officer Bahman Atefi and Chief Operating Officer Stacy Mendler presented Our Military Kids Executive Director Linda Davidson with a check for $47,072 in a ceremony [...]
ITT’s Global Citizenship Report, released this week, shows progress in the company’s environmental, social and governance record worldwide. The report shows a 51 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions and 46 percent reduction in hazardous-waste generation, among others. By the end of the year, the company reports its Watermark program will have provided sanitation and access [...]
Good ethics spells good business. Sounds simple enough, right? If that were the case, though, we wouldn’t see headlines like this or this. Helping to change that reality is Anand Anandalingam, dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. With his eye on training the next generation of business [...]
