Newsweek: The Greenest Big Companies in America

About two weeks ago, Newsweek published its inaugural list of the top 500 greenest companies in the US.  The top 10 are:

Hewlett-Packard
Dell
Johnson & Johnson
Intel
IBM
State Street
Nike
Bristol-Myers Squibb 
Applied Materials
Starbucks

4 of the top 5 are technology companies (HP, Dell, Intel and IBM).  For IBM, Newsweek wrote:
“Has had formal environmental policies since 1971. [...]

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Asian Leadership Summit 2008

Asia is a diverse region with 46 countries, 3.5 billion people and 3,300 languages – there are 4 times more college graduates and 12 times more engineers in Asia compared to the US. Earlier this month, IBM, along with HSBC and GE, co-hosted the Asian Leadership Summit in New York.
The IBM was very well [...]

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History Channel and IBM: Recreating China’s Forbidden City

A few weeks ago, the History Channel aired a fascinating documentary about work undertaken by IBM and the Beijing’s Palace Museum to recreate the Forbidden City.  The program tells a story of culture and how history, art and technology came together to bring one of the world’s greatest treasures to life.  The Forbidden City Revealed [...]

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InnovationJam 2008

Want to explore how organizations can transform themselves into truly global enterprises of the future?  Ready to collaborate with technology and business thought-leaders?  Let’s build consensus on how organizations can begin transforming themselves to make this a reality.
InnovationJam 2008 is a large-scale, Internet-based “conversation” based on the results of IBM’s Global CEO Study 2008, [...]

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World Community Grid

The World Community Grid’s mission is to create the world’s largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. Donate the time your computer is turned on, but is idle, to projects that benefit humanity! The World Community Grid provides the secure software that does it all for free, and you become [...]

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The Genographic Project

National Geographic and IBM have been leading a landmark anthropological five-year research study to answer the oldest questions we have about ourselves: Who are we and where did we come from? In doing so the project will also create the world’s largest survey of DNA samples to map how humankind populated the planet.
The [...]

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Motley Fool: Stocks That Cannot Be Stopped

A recent Motley Fool article titled Stocks That Cannot Be Stopped listed a few companies that have been paying dividends without interruption for at least 50 years, they dubbed  “half-century” club.

Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) since 1887
Ingersoll-Rand (NYSE: IR) since 1910
IBM (NYSE: IBM) since 1916
Bemis (NYSE: BMS) since1922
Altria (NYSE: MO) since 1928
Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) since [...]

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IBM and Diversity

At IBM, we recognize individual differences and appreciate how these differences provide a powerful competitive advantage and a source of great pride in the workplace.  In fact, IBM Canada was recently selected as one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers in a competition hosted by Mediacorp Canada, recognizing our leadership in workplace diversity initiatives. 
The combination [...]

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BusinessWeek: Big Blue Embraces Social Media

A story on BusinessWeek about IBM published on May 22, 2008, encouraging social networking among its employees with in-house versions of Web 2.0 hits such as Facebook and Twitter – IBM versions are called Beehive and BlueTwit.

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Driving in Tokyo (Not) and Project Big Green

The recent news about rising (skyrocketing?) oil and gas prices has reminded me that now living in Japan, we do not have a car and use Japan’s efficient subway and train system, along with our two legs to get around Tokyo and its surrounding areas – our little contribution to saving the planet and our [...]

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