Prior to joining Baylor, Carpenter served as an officer of two Fortune 500 companies headquartered in Houston: Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer for Waste Management Inc. and Vice President of Taxation for Tenneco Inc.

Annual recognition honors organizations committed to business integrity through robust ethics, compliance, and governance programsHOUSTON, March 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- WM, a Houston-based leading environmental solutions provider has received the 2025 World's Most Ethical Companies® recognition by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices.WM has been recognized 16 times and is one of only two honorees in the environmental services industry. In 2025, 136 honorees were recognized spanning 19 countries and 44 industries."A big part of WM's value is how we choose to operate with ethics at the center," said Jim Fish, president and CEO, WM. "With WM being named to the Ethisphere list once again, we are confident we are on the right path to continue to best serve our customers and provide a workplace our employees can be proud of.""Congratulations to WM for achieving recognition as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®. Behind this honor is a true dedication and a commitment to advancing business integrity. This approach is good for business – employees and other stakeholders value companies that prioritize the kinds of practices we measure with our process," said Erica Salmon Byrne, Ethisphere's Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Chair.Ethics & Performance: The Ethics PremiumThe listed 2025 World's Most Ethical Companies honorees outperformed a comparable index of global companies by 7.8 percentage points from January 2020 to January 2025.Methodology & ScoringThe World's Most Ethical Companies assessment is grounded in Ethisphere's proprietary Ethics Quotient®, which requires companies to provide 240+ different proof points on practices that support robust ethics and compliance; governance; a culture of ethics; environmental and social impact; and initiatives that support a strong value chain. That data undergoes further qualitative analysis by our panel of experts who spend thousands of hours vetting and evaluating each year's group of applicants

Of those recipients, Waste Management of Pennsylvania Inc., an operating unit of Houston-based WM, was awarded $300,000 to purchase 15 renewable natural gas (RNG) waste vehicles.