“intel” 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....

05/14/2008: Final Judgement Day at Intel ISEF -- Pick Your Winner

The judges are hours away from tallying their votes and selecting winners for this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Intel sponsored Sciencewoman to participate as a expert blogger and “ology” science competition judge, and she has been sharing...

05/13/2008: Video: Shelbinator's Nerdagedden at Intel ISEF 2008 by Shelbinator

With a storyteller’s spark and an engineer’s eye, the Shelbinator whipped up this fun “for those who care about science” video. He shot it during his visits to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair on Sunday and Monday while...

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: VIDEO: Worldwide Science Wizkid Competition

Innovative, young change agents. They are gathering to change the world for the better and collect a chunk of change to help pay their way to college. That’s what’s happening at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF)...

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...

04/16/2008: 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....

04/02/2008: 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...

03/12/2008: 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....

03/12/2008: Announcing the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search winners!

ISTS comes to a close with the announcement of the three winners. Scroll down for audio and video podcasts of the competition. First place winner: Shivani Sud from Durham, NC. She developed a “50-gene model” which uses gene expression to...

03/10/2008: Students of Serious Science

Imagine a circular room where the farther you walk around the outer rim of its stone-tiled floor, the more enlightened you become. Or the less enlightened you feel. The place exists, but only for a week, once a year in...

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....

03/09/2008: ISTS Day Two: Let the judging begin!

The kids arrived in drips and drabs. Some of them arrived Wednesday night; those were the kids from out west…Portland, and Hawaii being the farthest distance. We don’t remember their being a finalist from Hawaii in all the time Intel’s...

03/08/2008: ISTS Day One: Getting to know the finalists

Here is a short video from the first day of the Intel Science Talent Search, where you can meet some of the finalists and get a sense for what it’s like to be part of this select group. Every year...

03/06/2008: Looking forward by looking back

Between us we’ve been supporting Intel’s science competitions for more than ten years. And this just happens to be the tenth year of the Intel Science Talent Search. Every March Intel Science Talent Search brings together the top 40 high...

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,...

02/29/2008: Intel Science Talent Search - Why I am so passionate about it!

This year marks Intel’s 10th anniversary as title sponsor of the Intel® Science Talent Search, the oldest and most prestigious science competition for high school students in the US. The goal of the competition is to highlight the very substantive...

02/22/2008: Technology with the Environment in Mind

This is the title of our most recent Intel Technology Journal, a quarterly online publication that discusses R&D and technology trends at Intel. The February issue highlights a few of our environmental initiatives from products and manufacturing to an interesting...

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...

02/08/2008: Energy Efficiency: Be or Be Perceived

After almost ten years at Intel, I have lost track of how many times I have heard the phrase “be and be perceived” in meetings and conference calls concerning our environmental and broader corporate social responsibility operations and reputation. For...

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...

01/28/2008: Investing in the Future – Green Power

On Monday, the EPA announced that Intel is the single largest corporate purchaser of green power in the United States putting the company at the top of EPA’s latest Green Power Partners Top 25 list, and also at the No....

01/23/2008: Davos Brings out New Sustainability Rankings and Ratings

Each year about this time a couple of new sustainability ratings get a refresh. For the fourth year in a row, Corporate Knights has announced the 100 most sustainable corporations in the world in conjunction with the World Economic Forum...

01/23/2008: Our Davos Media Diet

I’m in Davos! I got to travel to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland along with some great education advocates from Intel: Chairman Craig Barrett, legal eagle Bruce Sewell, corporate responsibility man Will Swope and education programs leader Brenda...

01/23/2008: It's not Cannes, it's Davos

Imagine a place where the cops on the street out-number the pedestrians; where endless black Audi sedans compete head to head with TV remote broadcast trucks for a few precious meters of parking space; where every restaurant and every hotel...

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: From Hillsboro to Dalian

The Oregonian published a story last weekend that takes an in-depth look at Intel’s technology, how it’s used, and how the innovations that are born in our Fabs and R&D facilities in Oregon materialize around the world....

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...

11/23/2007: Measuring Social Impact

There is more to CSR than climate change or green initiatives. However with the dominance of those issues on the radar screen, it might be easy to forget that. One of the concepts I’ve tried to introduce this year in...

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,...

11/12/2007: Now It's Your Turn - CSR Reporting

We are in the midst of pulling all the content and data together for our 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report that will be published in May, 2008. We’ve been doing this a long time and have used many different formats to...

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...

09/14/2007: Another typical, carbon busy week!

I wasn’t a climate footprint role model this week – spending a couple days in Oregon working on organizational issues and then making my way to Chicago for a few hours to speak on a couple subjects at the Carbon...

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...

08/26/2007: Conference saturation point

Just a short blog post this time. I speak at a lot of conferences on the broad topic of CSR, or environment, supply chain, ethics, etc. A few years ago it got a little too much for one person to...

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...

07/02/2007: 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...

06/22/2007: 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...

06/14/2007: 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...