Deloitte & Touche/Deloitte Consulting Receives Corporate Vision Award From Girls Incorporated.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2001 Deloitte & Touche LLP/Deloitte Consulting LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , one of the world's leading professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firms, announced today that it is receiving the annual "Corporate Vision Award" for 2001 from Girls Incorporated, a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. dedicated to empowering girls throughout the U.S. to achieve their full potential. The award will be presented today at the 17th annual Girls Incorporated Celebration Luncheon in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Joyce Roche, Girls Incorporated President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , pointed to Deloitte's "inspiring" Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women as a key program in recommending this year's award recipient. "Deloitte's efforts to improve the workplace environment for women have been outstanding," said Ms. Roche. "The firm admirably came to terms with its need to provide a more equitable culture for the career advancement of women nearly 10 years ago, and this decision and this commitment has produced numerous benefits for female professionals--and role models for girls across the country." Douglas M. McCracken, Chairman of Deloitte & Touche and Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Consulting, acknowledged that the culture change driving career equity for women had not been easy, "but represented a pivotal event in the life of our firm." McCracken said he and other senior leaders of his organization were convinced that the cultural transformation that began with the Women's Initiative had grown over the decade of the 1990s and produced positive improvements in the culture for all the people of Deloitte & Touche/Deloitte Consulting. "Attracting, retaining, and developing skilled professionals and astute leaders is a business imperative at our firm--and a competitive advantage," McCracken noted. "We believe that this multifaceted commitment has created a workforce in which all of our people--men and women--feel valued and respected, and in which everyone is given the opportunity to succeed." In 1991, Deloitte & Touche came to terms with the fact that only four of its 50 partner candidates that year were women and that women were leaving the firm at a much higher rate than men. After a full review of policies, firm leadership launched the Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women, which was designed to address real and perceived obstacles to women's career success. Over the years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time program is credited with also positively impacting general improvements in the firm's work environment, including diversity initiatives and work/life balance programs. Today, 14 percent of Deloitte's partners and directors are women, the highest percentage among the Big Five professional services firms. About Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Deloitte & Touche (also referred to as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and branded as Deloitte.) is the second largest professional services firm in the world, and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG. Deloitte & Touche LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol and Deloitte Consulting are part of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of the world's leading professional services firms, delivering world-class assurance and advisory, tax, and consulting services. Nearly 90,000 people in over 130 countries serve almost one-fifth of the world's largest companies as well as large national enterprises, public institutions, and successful fast-growing companies. About Deloitte & Touche LLP Deloitte & Touche, one of the nation's leading professional services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax, and management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 100 U.S. cities. The firm is dedicated to helping our clients and our people excel. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. programs, Deloitte & Touche has been recognized as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" by Fortune magazine for four consecutive years. For more information, please visit Deloitte & Touche's web site at www.us.deloitte.com About Deloitte Consulting Deloitte Consulting is one of the world's leading e-Business consulting firms, providing services in all aspects of enterprise transformation, from strategy and process to information technology and human resources. The firm's e-Business professionals help clients, from new economy start-ups to Fortune 1000 global organizations, to create, reinvent re·in·vent tr.v. re·in·vent·ed, re·in·vent·ing, re·in·vents 1. To make over completely: "She reinvented Indian cooking to fit a Western kitchen and a Western larder" and defend their business models by guiding them through the complexities of the evolving digital economy. For more information about Deloitte Consulting, visit www.dc.com. Girls Incorporated(R) 120 Wall Street New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10005-3902 Tel: (212) 509-2000 Fax: (212) 509-8708 www.girlsinc.org |
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