Paying a visit to my professional roots

Next week I’ll be up in Minneapolis to deliver a few presentations at the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s annual conference. I think I’ve mentioned in this blog before that my path to CSR/Sustainability went through the areas of environmental engineering … Continue reading

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Seriously?!! A New Employee at Intel writes about Days 16-20 | INTEL ISEF

“Are you kidding me?” She must have said it like five times. She was one of the educators that was invited and flown to Georgia by Intel to participate in Intel’s educator academy telling me about a gift basket from … Continue reading

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With Leadership Comes Responsibility

I’ve always liked this saying, but what does it really mean for a company? I know what it means to me personally, but let’s try to translate that to a company with more than 85.000 employees in close to 50 … Continue reading

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A Special Night for Intel: Willam O. Douglas Corporate Achievement Award

Every so often someone will tell me my job sounds glamorous – those people usually aren’t lawyers and rarely work for large corporations. The fact is that as General Counsel a lot of my time is spent dealing with a … Continue reading

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Profile: Craig Barrett

Dr. Craig Barrett is the Retired CEO/Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation and a leading advocate for improving education in the U.S. and around the world. He is also a vocal spokesman for the value technology can provide in … Continue reading

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It May be easy being Green, but speaking about it is NOT

I presented at a small conference on Corporate Sustainability in San Francisco earlier this month on the challenges of marketing and communicating “green”. The presentation was a lot of fun and the audience was very engaged–we all seemed to have … Continue reading

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Intel and Grameen: Bringing technology to rural, impoverished communities through social business

Traveling the world it is not uncommon to see poverty and people living in conditions that are almost unimaginable. It is especially striking when you see young people with seemingly no hope to get an education that might allow them … Continue reading

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Companies that really want to help the poor get unpoor should help the poor make more money

Ok, I’m going to start by saying this post may get me in trouble here at Intel because I’m going to speak heresy. I’m going to suggest we should allocate some portion of our investments in education into a different … Continue reading

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The Future of the World is in Better Hands Than We Think

Intel ISEF has just sent 1500+ kids home with their heads awhirl. Most are high school seniors and they are here from 48 states and 51 countries and territories. I’m sitting in the Atlanta airport and they are everywhere around … Continue reading

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