International Corporate Citizenship Conferences
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Corporate Citizenship Conferences
2009 - Corporate Citizenship: Leading Change, Finding Opportunity
March 29-31, 2009; San Francisco, CA
This conference occurred in the midst of one of the worst economic crises the U.S. has seen. Its focus was on providing the corporate citizenship professionals in attendance with the tools they need to help their companies rebuild trust, strengthen the brand, add value to the bottom line and keep employees energized. Keynote speakers included John Elkington, co-founder of SustainAbility; Van Jones, President Obama's special adviser for green jobs and enterprise and innovation and founding president of Green For All ; Dev Patnaik, author of Wired to Care; sustainability expert Adam Werbach; and Tony Wagner, author of The Global Achievement Gap. Major sponsors were Intel Corporation, The Dow Chemical Company, Accenture, Fidelity Investments, Kaiser Permanente, State Street Corporation, UPS, Baxter International, FedEx Corporation, Haley & Aldrich, ING, Levi Strauss & Co., Microsoft Corporation, Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, Petro-Canada, Sprint, Target Corporation and TransCanada.
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2008 - Corporate Citizenship: Real + Relevant + Responsive
April 6-8, 2008; Boston, MA
The 2008 conference focused on managing the complexity of corporate citizenship: how to keep it real, make it matter, and be responsive. Major speakers included three members of the Toyota Management Team - Kevin Butt, Patricia Pineda, and Bill Reinert ; Charles J. Fombrun, Ph.D., CEO of the Reputation Institute; Chip Heath, author of "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die" and professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University; Iqbal Z. Quadir, entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of GrameenPhone. Major sponsors included Toyota Motor Corp., Fidelity Investments, State Street Corporation, Sprint, UPS, New Balance Foundation, Accenture, Merck & Co. Inc., Northrop Grumman Corporation, FedEx Corporation, Levi Strauss & Co., Baxter International, Target Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Bank of America, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Pepsico Inc., The Dow Chemical Company, Mohawk Fine Papers and Haley & Aldrich.
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2007 - Corporate Citizenship: How it Really Works
March 25-27, 2007; San Francisco, CA
The 2007 conference moved the conversation from why corporate citizenship is critical to your business, to how to manage it and build it into your strategic priorities and operations. Major speakers included Beth A. Brooke, Global Vice Chair, Strategy, Communications & Regulatory Affairs, Ernst & Young; Ann M. Fudge, Former Chairman and CEO, Young & Rubicam Brands; Robert Hanson, President, North America, Levi Strauss & Co.; President & General Manager, U.S. Levi's®; Andrew Zolli, Futurist, Author, & Founder of Z+ Partners; and Elliot Schrage, Vice-President, Global Communications and Public Affairs, Google. Major sponsors included Levi Strauss & Company, Fidelity Investments, Sprint, Hewlett-Packard, UPS, Northrop Grumman, Accenture, Merck, Wells Fargo, FedEx, Kaiser Permanente, Baxter International, Mohawk Fine Papers, and the Home Depot.
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2006 - If Corporate Citizenship is the Answer, What is the Question
March 26-28, 2006; Orlando, Florida
The 2006 conference prompted the nearly 400 attendees to challenge their assumptions about corporate citizenship, and to step back to assess the motivations, objectives, and strategic goals that underpin its value and impact. Major speakers included Steven Levitt, popular economist and author of Freakonomics; Jeff Swartz, CEO and President, Timberland; Julius Walls, Jr., CEO and President, Greyston Bakery; Nicholas M. Donofrio, Executive Vice President, Innovation and Technology, IBM; and John V. Murphy, Chairman, President and CEO of OppenheimerFunds. Sponsors included The Walt Disney World Company, Oppenheimer Funds, Baxter International, Booz Allen Hamilton, Fedex, Fidelity Investments, The Home Depot, Levis, Merck, Northrop Grumman, Sprint, and UPS.
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2005 - Mapping the Future of Corporate Citizenship: Redefining the Markers for Business Success
April 3-5, 2005; Boston, Mass
The 2005 conference marked our 20th anniversary and reflected how the work, once consigned to community relations professions has broadened during the past two decades. Major speakers included Starbucks Coffee Company CEO Jim Donald, Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, ImagineNations CEO Rick Little, futurist and author Andrew Zolli, and Tom McCoy, executive vice president for legal affairs and chief administrative officer of AMD. AMD, the presenting corporate sponsor and conference co-chair, was joined by 29 other sponsoring companies such as Accenture, Starbucks, Agilent, Coca-Cola, Nokia, UPS, Georgia-Pacific, FedEx and Merck.
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Other Conferences
2009 - Meeting the 21st Century Education Challenge: A summit on how business can help transform U.S. education
This summit marked the beginning of a major new effort to reimagine and reinvigorate corporate efforts to revitalize U.S. education, bringing together many of the nation’s top education thought leaders with senior corporate practitioners to begin tackling this enormous challenge. Participants also had the opportunity to learn about and influence the direction of a major new initiative at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship: the Uncommon Table: An Innovation Lab for Business Leadership in Education, which was launched with a generous grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Learn more about this conference or view our post-conference portal.
April 2008 - Transforming Business-Education Partnerships: Seeking Solutions for the 21st Century
On April 5, 2008 the Boston College Center hosted a full-day conference, "Transforming Business-Education Partnerships: Seeking Solutions for the 21st Century. This event sought to explore “next generation” approaches to education, which has long been a top concern of many Center members. The conference was intended to be just the beginning of a major new initiative focused on how business can more effectively use its influence, resources and employees to improve education. Learn more.
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