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Allow me to draw your attention to our latest Case Study about the Responsible Business Competition , which we every year with Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Europe . The latest addition to the competition is a new application on Facebook, the ‘ Responsible Business Challenge’ , which...
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A few months ago, WWF published a HP-supported white paper called ‘From Green IT to Greening with IT’. The paper is directed mainly at policy makers and aims to explore the role of IT in business and government strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It particularly looks...
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Wow! Nearly 1000 students participated in this year`s JA Global Business Challenge and eight teams made it to the final. In the end, the Russian Team Topol-M won the prestigious award, which included a cash prize of US $3,000. Second place was awarded to Team 4 Life from Kazakhstan and Team Kiki Phi...
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When we talk about working conditions in global supply chains, we often think of the human rights and labour issues in Asian factories that dominate the media. But what about working conditions in Europe? The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work conducted a survey among European workers focusing...
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You might have seen my earlier blog entries about our support for the Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award and the video produced by WWF to support the award. Today, I am pleased to share with you the names of the winners of the essay competition! First place went to Jonathan Alexander from the University...
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This was just so amazing and very rewarding. On 16 and 17 October we held our second GET-IT networking conference in Cairo, Egypt. The conference was hosted by the Ministry of ICT in the ‘smart village’. We had representatives from 80 GET-IT centres, government organisations and educational...
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Last month I came across an interesting Time article . Even though they talk about the American consumer, I think this is relevant news for us in Europe as well. The article describes how consumers in the U.S. look for companies which strive to be responsible social citizens. It gives us an interesting...
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For the third consecutive year, our blog is participating in the Blog Action Day . The idea of the Blog Action Day is to encourage bloggers all over the world to post an entry on the same topic on the same day to raise awareness. The motto is: One day. One issue. Thousands of voices. After last year’s...
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Newsweek have just published their new Green Ranking list of the biggest companies in the U.S. I was very pleased to see that HP ranked #1 . As Daniel McGinn points out in his article, such rankings can be quite controversial. Not all companies report on their environmental performance. Either that or...
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On this blog we always give you updates on our programme achievements. We decided to bring these updates together in a short article, to give you a great overview of our social investment approach and our main programmes. Click here to read the article. I am looking forward to your comments to our Social...
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I’ve got good news to share: In its latest press release the Global Reporting Initiative ( GRI ) states that more and more companies are gradually publishing sustainability and CSR reports. What strikes me is that Europe seems to outperform other regions. GRI has revealed that nearly 50 per cent...
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Reviewing the news headlines of the last weeks and months, it is obvious that the economic downturn is the still one of the most important subjects. And it seems that it will continue that way in the future. Here are some highlights of stories about CSR and the economic downturn that I recently read...
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In his recent Financial Times article Chip Feiss outlines a potential fourth sector: the social enterprise. With the call for corporate social responsibility, sustainability and corporate citizenship, this is not digressive. A social enterprise can be either pro-profit or non-profit: The idea behind...
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I’d like to invite you to listen to our latest CSR podcast with Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic from UNESCO. Stamenka works in UNESCO’s Division of Higher Education where she is Chief of the Section for Reform, Innovation and Quality Assurance. She has been involved in the UNESCO/HP private public...
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I just briefly wanted to highlight an announcement that HP released today. It provides news from across the company, highlighting new environmental goals as well as new products and services in the HP Eco Solutions programme. The announcement includes a real wealth of information from different HP businesses...