“csr” Tag

05/15/2008: It’s the little things, really

My boss’ boss sent us all an email. The content was important and I read it with interest, but what really caught my attention was this little graphic and tagline at the bottom:...

05/14/2008: Looks like the Stick still beats the Carrot

I don’t know how many of you saw the Business Insight piece in the WSJ on Monday, Does Being Ethical Pay? Here is another link to a summary just in case you don’t have access to the WSJ site....

05/13/2008: Getting behind the numbers

I’ve been bogged down the last few weeks finalizing our newest CSR report (look for it on our CSR web site on May 21st). I was happy to take a break one night last week to attend a scholarship award...

05/13/2008: Social Media to the Rescue?

I’m BACK……What do you mean you didn’t noticed I left? Okay, I will ignore that comment for now….FYI, I was on sabbatical for two months, which is a great perk from Intel; so now that I’m refreshed and re-energized, I...

05/08/2008: Unleashing ingenuity for better and worse....maybe

On this, the last day of the NetHope Summit, I wanted to share this vid about one project where NetHope member NGOs are doing great work. The person I spoke with about the project (I promised not to attribute...

05/07/2008: In NetHope, Africa is the new black. And: I fall in love with you inanimate object

I’m in day two at the NetHope summit and I’m fickle and in love. More on that last part later. My new main squeeze. Isn’t her display gorgeous? Where do you think the NGO community that is NetHope is focusing...

05/06/2008: NetHope summit leaves me (slightly) chagrined....

Greetings from the 2008 NetHope Summit. I’m standing on probably some of the most valuable realestate in the technology universe – San Jose – at the Cisco headquarters. Virtually every big tech player is within eyesight here, but, not being...

05/05/2008: Grass roots philanthropy – where’s the corporate connection?

Socially-minded grass roots organizations like media darling Kiva.org and virtual networks such as NED are changing the development and aid industry. Is your company thinking about extending its CSR activities to include these upstarts? We are. I’ll tell you more...

05/02/2008: NetHope Summit assignment takes me to the motherland (Silicon Valley)

Next week I’m off to the technology mecca (uh, that’s Silicon Valley, Ca) to rub shoulders with IT representatives of 20 NGO organizations belonging to NetHope. I swear it’s not a boondoggle. Intel is sponsoring the organization’s spring summit...

04/30/2008: Does CSR have its roots in the American Black struggle?

I wanted this post’s headline to be a play on words using the word “roots.” But changed my mind on the premise that some (most?) blogospherians* who read these posts 1 – probably aren’t from the U.S. and 2 -...

04/27/2008: 3 Questions from Congresswoman, Zoe Lofgren

“What has your company done to pave the path toward going green?” “How have your actions helped the greater community?” “How has going green saved you money, jobs and improved lives?” These are 3 questions I’ve been asked to answer...

04/24/2008: Two Questions

We don’t get too many comments to most of our posts, but I hope this one is a little different. I’m doing some personal “mapping” of the future and considering we have about 10K CSR stakeholders poking around this blog...

04/22/2008: Earth Day, Every Day.

How many Earth Day blogs will there be? For me, this intuitively seems one of the worst days to be blogging considering the sheer number of posts with “Earth Day” in the title. However, considering everything going on, I’d be...

04/21/2008: The Growth of Green Investing Options

For those of us in this business, socially responsible investing has been on our radar screen for more than a decade, but it was still nice to see to see The Today Show feature the concept this morning....

04/16/2008: Can Sustainability, Green or CSR Survive a Recession?

I’ve seen this question quite a bit lately in all sorts of trade and business press. While I suppose it makes an interesting headline to some, the question makes absolutely no sense to me. It might be fair to ask...

04/10/2008: Making a Conference Attendance “Stick”

This year’s Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (BCCCC) Conference just wrapped up this week. It was held in Boston this year, but they try to jump coasts each year. Next year it’s in San Francisco....

04/04/2008: CSR at the Intersection of Intel and the Community

I have a certain perspective of Corporate Responsibility at the “corporate” level. But, I also have a perspective of CSR (yes, there is a notable “S”) at the intersection of Intel and the communities in which we operate. There are...

04/02/2008: The 2nd Generation Classmate PC - Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai

Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF) is an event that is held a couple of times a year in different geographies. These are big events with thousands of industry partners and lots of press. We make several product announcements over the course...

03/26/2008: On the Cutting Edge of CSR: Intel Rural Connectivity Platform

The cutting edge of CSR is the tangible intersection of social improvement and business opportunity. I see the example of Intel’s Rural Connectivity Platform as one of the most real examples of that cutting edge. -Dave This entry was first...

03/21/2008: The Role of the Supply Chain In CSR

I made my way to San Francisco Wednesday evening to attend Intel’s materials Supplier Day. I’ve been hearing about Supplier Day for more than 10 years in my career at Intel. I’ve even been writing about it for several years...

03/20/2008: Breathing Life into CSR Reporting

Not too long ago, I participated in the second Israeli Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility at Tel Aviv University,Israel. The goal of this conference was to encourage more companies in Israel to join the global trend of CSR reporting. Sean...

03/12/2008: STS, SSP, CSR, SE, IQ, SAT, DC

Is this some kind of new code to crack? No, these are just a few of the acronyms that come to mind as I return from the Intel Science Talent Search (STS) held in Washington D.C. Tuesday night....

03/10/2008: More from Intel STS: So, for $1 million dollars!!!! Does P = NP?

Yes, there is a $1 million dollar award for the person who can answer one of the most important open questions in computer science and mathematics – does P = NP? Louis Wasserman, a senior from Montgomery Blair High School...

03/09/2008: Meeting with Today’s Leaders as well as some of Tomorrow’s

I don’t always do as much as I’d like to do on the subjects of Sustainability or CSR in my (current) home state of Arizona, but this week was different....

02/29/2008: So…Where have I been? Even I’m hard pressed to answer that.

Good question. Buried, and I mean buried in work. This is report season for those of us working on sustainability reports. Couple that with recent work on the Intel’s annual report, proxy statement, communication strategies, annual strategy revisions, external commitments,...

02/11/2008: Siberian Winters and CSR

Thanks to the laudable efforts of our team in Russia, three new ComSol projects are underway in that country. One of them has already gotten lots of media coverage in its region. It’s a WiMAX-based emergency response network that allows...

02/05/2008: Innovation, National Competitiveness and Values-based Business

While out running errands one evening this week, I had the radio on – as usual. It’s either set between the local talk station and NPR. I might have been in my car for a total of 10 min, but...

02/04/2008: Images from China...

Here are some pictures of my trip to China last month, where I was working whith my colleagues there and One Global Economy to propose a ComSol project with the Chinese government. The first one is Moustafa Mourad with one...

02/01/2008: Things in China keep changing….for the better.

Ok, I didn’t blog about my visit whilst in country….long story. But know that the result of my week long visit to support my colleagues on the project emerging there was well worth the investment. For one, I had the...

01/11/2008: Refreshing our Environmental “Look and Feel”

There is a lot of Environmental content on the web these days — more and more every day in fact. Intel was one of the first companies in the world to use the web to communicate our environmental performance to...

01/08/2008: Laid up in Shanghai

I know, it’s been a long time since I last posted. In December, I promised to blog about a project developing in Chengdu, China. As fates would have it, that trip was postponed…until right now. I writing while stranded in...

01/05/2008: A Painful Start to the New Year

I’ve been around Intel for a long time now. The beginning of the New Year is a notoriously busy time. We are usually working hard on the upcoming corporate responsibility report and the many other projects that seem to start...

01/01/2008: Deck the Halls and Communicate… Right on into 2008

As we come to the end of 2007, I was reflecting on all the things that go into making a successful CSR program. First, there are the obvious ones, such as measurable positive impact on the community and environment, recognition...

12/24/2007: A Few End-Of-The-Year CSR Predictions

Two things seem to be the staple of stories this time of year. Either a best/worst countdown of the last year, or a set of predictions for the new year. CSR is all about the latter, so I think we...

12/12/2007: Leadership or Change Management?

Which is the more valuable skill in driving tangible improvements in CSR performance? I had the opportunity to speak to a group of professionals at a new course offered by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship last week. The...

12/05/2007: No Wonder Profitable and Responsible Rhyme

OK. So, poetry purists might disagree about the rhyming, but a lot of us (who maybe aren’t such great poets) believe those words definitely do go together. Today (December 5) is International Volunteer Day, which is officially accepted by the...

11/30/2007: Whether there is anything left to say on the digital divide ?

With the constant buzz about closing the digital divide, is there really anything left to say? I didn’t think so until I met Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli. Prof. Rafaeli is head of the Center for the Study of the Information Society...

11/13/2007: For once, some good news from China

In a few weeks I’ll be traveling to China. It’s the second time I’m traveling there. While I enjoy flying small planes and generally like to fly, flying commercially isn’t something I look forward to anymore. But in this case,...

11/01/2007: Going "Glocal" With a New Kind of CSR Report

I’m having a ball referring to the CSR report we launched in Israel last week as a “glocal” CSR report (English, Hebrew). Although, it’s not my invention, I think glocal is a great word because it does more than just...

10/30/2007: Technology Benefiting Humanity

Companies get involved in a lot of CSR efforts. Some seem to get an unfair amount of attention and others go on almost invisibly. I’m sure that’s the case for many companies – but there is one event that Intel...

10/25/2007: When a new factory is much more than just a new factory

I live in Arizona. I’ve been here for more than 14 years – and I love it here. Home, on the other hand, will always be Michigan. Detroit, to be more specific. Everybody in Detroit seemed to work in one...

10/10/2007: Digital divide reunites me with an old friend

This week (tomorrow in fact) I’ll be participating in a talk-show formatted panel discussion with an old friend, Rey Ramsey. I met Rey in his second year of founding the hugely successful One Economy Corporation, a U.S. based NGO that...

10/06/2007: CSR Down Under

I’m writing this somewhere over the Pacific on my way home from a VERY short trip to Sydney, Australia. It took me 40 years to actually get to Australia for the first time, but now, I’ve been there twice in...

10/01/2007: Four Kids, One Job

Last week I participated in a CSR Europe Laboratory. The idea behind these labs is to bring together business people, stakeholders, and representatives of the European Union to share experiences and explore joint operational projects. The laboratory I participated in...

09/26/2007: Is CSR evidence of a company’s desire for Love and Belonging?

I gave a speech last week at a gathering of young professionals interested in my blow-hard ideas and opinions, my career, CSR and the future. In addition to going on about a convergence I see developing between humans and their...

09/18/2007: Football, Ethics and CSR?

It’s autumn and for many people in the States, that means football season has started. I’m actually a fan of the sport as it’s a nice distraction from my normal work life, well that’s until the Patriots spy story broke...

09/17/2007: Can CSR increase business?

Ok, it's anecdotal but check this out. Earlier this year, during a conflict between Israel and Palestinians, Our Community Solutions (ComSol) champion in Israel saw opportunity in conflict. What she didn't realize at the time was seizing that opportunity would...

09/07/2007: The Latest Global Sustainability Index

It’s not often that a sound business and sustainability/CSR strategy turns into something that 90,000 people can be personally proud of. Today is one of those times. The annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) were published this week for 2007/2008....

08/29/2007: Visiting with Investors – Getting Smarter on Issues.

Each year about this time, I make a trip to the East Coast of the US to meet with key leaders in the Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) industry. I’ve been doing this now for almost a decade – it’s turned...

08/22/2007: Lest you think all things go swimmingly in our CSR efforts, they don’t....

Case in point: one of our projects here in the U.S., which I thought had great promise is stuggling, not because of anything Intel did, but because of the real estate dip here in the US and perhaps some other...

08/19/2007: My Five Tips for Getting Employees Involved in CSR – What's Your Sixth?

I like what Alice Shell wrote in her blog: “In terms of a talent management practice, satisfied employees are productive employees and have high retention rates. Attention to corporate social responsibility is not just good citizenship, it’s good business.” I...

08/09/2007: Do Good – Or Else??

I knew a long ago I would never make it as a newspaper editor. I just can’t come up with headlines like this - I’ve never been able to. This one grabbed my attention this morning. I noticed it in...

07/27/2007: Where Does Philanthropy Fit in the CSR Spectrum?

I have to admit, I consider myself a purist. I’ve always felt more comfortable on the “Responsibility” vs the “Social” side of the scale in CSR. My early background is in Environmental and Employee protection and health. I actually was,...

07/22/2007: What Exactly Is the Social Responsibility of Global Corporations?

It’s been awhile since my last blog, so there is much I could discuss. Just prior to taking a vacation in Mexico with my family, I published a post on Intel’s Classmate PC and how the press had so often...

07/05/2007: Are Corporate Blogs "blog-a-ganda"?

Does anybody read corporate blogs? Does anybody care? Our blog is pretty new but there doesn’t seem to be many comments—-and that’s being nice. I was thinking of asking my wife to put down a comment on my blog so...

07/02/2007: CSR Index: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Last week, the Maala organization (an affiliate of BSR) published its index for social responsibility in Israel. I’m proud to note that Intel Israel was ranked as one of the top five privately-owned companies. The ranking is connected to the...

06/30/2007: Is that a great headline, or what? -- "Intel Inside the Third World."

The credit goes to BusinessWeek, not me, but it sure got my attention. You can read the full article here if you’re interested. It’s the subtitle that I’m most interested in. “Is getting computers to poor kids charity — or...

06/27/2007: How do I get a job in Corporate Responsibility?

It’s graduation time around the world and we often get questions from graduates on, “how do I get a job in the area of Corporate Responsibility?” It’s great to hear from these students because they have so much passion about...

06/22/2007: The color of money....maybe it's not so tough to be green.

Green buildings, green computers, greenwashing and greenbacks. Have you heard enough yet? I hope not - because I’m afraid you are going to be hearing a lot more for a long time. The temptation is high to search through a...

06/19/2007: Does technology have a role in community development?

What is technology’s role in community development? That might sound like a stupid question, but for communities, answering this question may not be as easy as you think. That may be why a standing-room-only audience joined panelists from IBM, Create...

06/14/2007: Welcome to CSR@Intel

I’ve thought about a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) blog for a few years now. I still remember sitting in the launch meeting for the Global Reporting Initiative in 1997 in London….wondering if this CSR/Sustainability concept was just common sense or...