To qualify for the ranking at all, each company had to have an above-average reputation score (defined as over 70) in its home market, based on Reputation Institute's global database of RepTrak scores spanning 2006 to 2010.
Phase two will involve collaborating with a consortium of research universities called the Sustainability Index Consortium to work with suppliers, retailers, non-governmental agencies and government to develop a comprehensive, global database on the lifecycle of the products that Wal-Mart carries.
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The global repertoire database will detail which publisher or song writer owns which rights.
EmployInsight is a new company which collects candidate data and offers in-line assessments online, attempting to build up a global skills database.
The new system - known as the global repertoire database - will include details on who has worked on creating a song along with who has licensing rights.
They are tied to greater needs such as the need for a global drug patent database to facilitate access to safe, cheap generic drugs that would help to undercut the black market.
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The sessions build on 2009 GP-GTFBC session achievements, which led the establishment of a global network and resource database.
We decided two years ago that we had to create our own database for the global and we did.
Yet, according to the database maintained by the Global Wind Energy Council, there was virtually no new capacity in wind in sub-Saharan Africa outside Cape Verde by the end of 2011.
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The new database, called the Global Security Risk Monitor, coupled with possible new legislation, could over time begin to knock the share prices of companies that do business with unsavoury regimes.
The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which maintains a database on field and laboratory experiments measuring plant growth responses to CO2-enriched environments has reported 45 studies that have examined effects on the garden tomato (lycopersicon eculentum).
It culminated in the last decades of his life in a forward-thinking creation he called the Global Jukebox Project, an early computer database that organized and compared various forms based on geography, style, and subsistence patterns.
Thousands of students have already uploaded their results in a shared database, making this the largest shared global experiment.
Japanese video game developer Sega Corp said on Sunday that information belonging to 1.3 million customers has been stolen from its database, the latest in a rash of global cyber attacks against video game companies.
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This database lists programmes that are of interest to a global audience.
In three phases of research, they worked from a database of 2, 242 managers and executives from 25 companies in four global geographic regions.
Many analysts believe that IRRC's new database, coupled with legislative moves in Congress, could alter the landscape of global investing and prompt U.S. fund managers to unload stocks of companies active in countries involved with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
The devices help pilots avoid "terrain" by coupling global-positioning technology with flight data on speed, altitude and other readings, and a database containing the topography of the planet.
Earlier this year Keiser put out a bullish report on location technologies: mapp Close ing database firms TeleAtlas and Navteq, dashboard navigation device makers such as TomTom and Garmin, and global positioning system chip firms like Sirf Technology Holdings.
In the global art game, you can keep track of all the auction action at Artfact.com, the leading database of auction-sale results for fine and decorative arts, covering sales in five continents.
Avidsen, a provider of market information to the global commercial insurance industry, reported Monday that securities litigation tracked 169 securities cases in its Master Significant Case and Action Database, 35.2% ahead of the 125 cases in the fourth-quarter of 2008, and 26.1% ahead of the previous year's corresponding period.
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