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IBM’s Rod Adkins, senior vice president, systems and technology group, accepts the award for the 2011 Top Company for Global Cultural Competence.

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“We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society,” read a statement from Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf after learning she was one of three women to win the Nobel Peace Prize this [...]

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