tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/cgi-bin/mt//feed/intel 2009-11-23T14:37:04Z Movable Type 4.21-en 117 1 117 tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3646 2009-11-19T01:43:55Z 2009-11-19T22:42:18Z Hosam Haggag When I heard that the Leonid meteor shower this year was predicted to be one of the most active in years past, I was determined to head out and catch the sight of the “shooting stars” myself. And boy was... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3614 2009-11-02T21:25:38Z 2009-11-02T23:11:38Z Julie Clugage What an exciting two months it has been for the Intel Education Service Corps! We launched the first pilot project in September when six employees from Intel’s Technology & Manufacturing Group (three from the US and three from Vietnam) went... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3598 2009-10-26T20:34:59Z 2009-10-26T20:52:41Z Suzanne Fallender This year marks the 20th anniversary of the annual SRI in the Rockies conference - the leading annual gathering of socially responsible investors and research firms. The conference itself was born in the Rockies with a small group of SRI... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3546 2009-10-15T19:19:37Z 2009-10-15T19:35:51Z Suzanne Fallender Addressing climate change is not something new for us. But how we are now looking at the issue is. As a company, Intel has taken steps to measure and reduce the carbon footprint of our operations for many years now.... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3523 2009-10-07T22:45:51Z 2009-10-08T13:29:14Z Suzanne Fallender Dr. Sharon Nunes from IBM, opened her remarks on her panel at yesterday’s annual summit of the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF) in NYC, noting that in her career as an engineer, she rarely finds herself in a... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3443 2009-09-23T18:08:49Z 2009-09-24T17:43:45Z Brad Houser After our week in Quang Tri, it was time to return to Ho Chi Minh City, which most people still call Saigon. The Mercedes passenger van that took us from Hue to the little village was ready to take us... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3370 2009-09-17T06:16:48Z 2009-09-21T04:50:16Z Jason Cheah From Thi Kim Ly, a volunteer at Intel: Time is flying quickly, just a blink of an eye and here we are; on the last day of training in Quang Tri. We’re all set to conduct the last training session... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3353 2009-09-14T22:48:45Z 2009-09-15T00:21:01Z Suzanne Fallender Conserving natural resources - including water - is something that we’ve focused on Intel at for many years now. While we’ve achieved significant savings in water through investments in conservation activities over the past decade, we know we need to... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3343 2009-09-13T22:33:10Z 2009-09-14T03:41:37Z Brad Houser Quang Tri Province, Thursday September 10 I awoke to a warm sunrise at 5:45 AM on Thursday, and soon after, the sound of truck horns blasting on the main highway through town permeated the air. A quick breakfast of Pho,... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3339 2009-09-12T06:51:55Z 2009-09-12T07:12:14Z Brad Houser Things have been busy since my last blog, where you will recall, I had just arrived in Ho Chi Minh City. It was late, and I was ready for sleeping off some jet lag. The plan was to meet for... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3316 2009-09-08T18:13:50Z 2009-09-08T23:17:59Z Brad Houser After a long day spent traveling, I am writing this from my hotel room in Saigon, before trying to get some sleep. I took the Super Shuttle from my home in San Jose to SFO around 9AM Monday, with one... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3311 2009-09-06T20:00:23Z 2009-09-08T15:35:46Z Brad Houser San Jose, California This is the first of several blogs on an adventure I am about to take with several of my Intel colleagues, as part of the Intel Educational Services Corps. (See the Introduction blog of the IESC from... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3300 2009-09-03T20:28:27Z 2009-09-03T20:52:25Z Julie Clugage Last week was a high point for me in my seven years with Intel. We launched the new Intel Education Service Corps, a program that will enable talented Intel employees from all over the world to travel to developing countries... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3294 2009-09-03T05:59:53Z 2009-09-03T06:25:51Z Suzanne Fallender So, I’m sitting here, up way too late in a hotel room in Boston, listening to the jack hammering on the street right outside my window. Figured that I should try to make some use of my inability to sleep,... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3276 2009-08-27T18:30:42Z 2009-08-27T19:21:03Z Suzanne Fallender One of the things that I love about working at Intel is the support and encouragement provided for employees to volunteer at local schools and non-profits. Truth be told, I would probably volunteer regardless of the support I get from... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3206 2009-08-10T20:55:20Z 2009-08-10T21:22:19Z Suzanne Fallender One of the topics that keeps coming up in discussions with my counterparts in corporate responsibility departments at other companies is employee engagement around CSR and sustainability. As corporate responsibility matures within major global brands, one of the next big... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3127 2009-07-08T06:31:24Z 2009-07-08T06:57:57Z Suzanne Fallender Many people continue to criticize CSR reports for being too long, detailed and boring for most stakeholders to read. When you combine that sentiment with the challenges of explaining your corporate responsibility performance in multiple languages and cultures and your... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3057 2009-06-05T20:37:01Z 2009-06-05T20:59:08Z Suzanne Fallender Not sure if you’ve already seen Intel’s newest advertising campaign, but it highlights some of the individual employees in our company who are behind Intel’s history of innovation - basically, our “rock stars.” The June edition of Scientific American includes... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3028 2009-05-22T21:34:29Z 2009-05-22T22:30:57Z Suzanne Fallender Yesterday, Intel hosted the first west coast summit of the Women’s Network for a Sustainable Future at our offices in Santa Clara. The day brought together a mix of women (and a few brave men) from across the spectrum of... tag:blogs.intel.com,2009:/csr//16.3018 2009-05-20T14:29:03Z 2009-05-20T13:56:52Z Michael Jacobson http://www.intel.com/go/responsibility Although I am now just two weeks into my new role as Intel’s Director of Corporate Responsibility, the topic of corporate responsibility is not something new to me. For over twelve years, I have had the privilege of managing Intel’s...