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IN THIS ISSUE:
* LAUNCHED: "Safe Data Room" Provider * MEET: HIP's Summer Associates * ATTEND: Compelling Conferences this Fall
* READ: New Books on Sustainability * ACT: HIP Your Portfolio, Company and World
NEW WALMART SUSTAINABILITY INDEX LAUNCHED GLOBALLY; HOW HIP HELPED
By one estimate, the total value of all goods and services sold by Walmart suppliers equals about one-third of global output. Yes, 1 in 3 dollars worldwide is associated with a company that does business with Walmart. So, if Walmart shifts itself and its suppliers, the global economy can more easily follow. In July 2009, Walmart publicly released a new "Sustainability Index" for its 60,000 suppliers globally, including China. * How did Walmart's new supplier scorecard come about? * What does the Sustainability Index look like? * Does it create both business value and benefit the environment and society? * Most importantly, what does it mean for investors? READ MORE of HIP's insights into the process so far, how HIP contributed to the multi-disciplinary team developing the Index, and why Walmart's aggressive push into sustainability initiatives is positioning it for more success.
HOW HIP IS YOUR MOBILE PHONE COMPANY?
AT&T, the service provider of
In terms of workplace equality, AT&T and Verizon battle for the top. With more than 40% female employees and more than 35% ethnic employees, these companies are a model of diversity in the workforce. Sprin READ THE ANALYSIS and summary HIP scoring for AT&T, MetroPCS, Sprint, and Verizon.
NEW VENTURE LIGHTSERVE.COM, A SAFE DATA ROOM FOR YOUR INVESTING NEEDS Long-time HIP associate William Reinhardt, a graduate of Princeton and now a proud bulldog owner (Nelson!), has co-founded a new company. Lightserve.com, is a new security service for fund managers and investors that offers control for confidential files with a secure distribution system. Users have control over recipients and how files are downloaded or printed, including project data and legal documents. Managers can observe how long people spend reading the documents, manage file versions and document history, and revoke access at the completion of a deal cycle. Lightserve serves clients in investing and finance. For a free one-month trial ($25 value) and to see an instant online demo, CLICK HERE.
MEET HIP'S TEAM - SUMMER 2009
Mara Ludmer is an undergraduate at Unive
Sasha Mironov is an
Velvet Voelz is currently a * Need a talented professional for your organization? HIP can help! Many qualified graduate students and professionals seek out HIP to help them find great opportunities. If you need talent, write us at TalentTeam@HIPinvestor.com - and we can likely connect you with highly qualified candidates.
HIP'S FALL 2009 INTERNSHIPS * HIP Investor is seeking talented individuals for Fall 2009 for researching international companies, co-creating innovative financial models, and expanding our publishing and social networking. More details HERE.
MAKE YOUR PORTFOLIO AND COMPANY MORE HIP WITH OUR SERVICES INVESTORS: Is Your Portfolio HIP? * HIP 100 Index (TM) - Explore this new approach to investing, seeking to deliver both human impact and profit. The Index evaluates more than 30 metrics like Health, Wealth, Earth, Equality and Trust, and how they link to shareholder value. (This is not an offer of securities.) * HIP Portfolio Scorecard - Measure the Impact of Your Portfolio (Stocks, Bonds, Real Estate and even Charity) across each asset class - excellent for accredited investors, institutions, foundations and endowments. LEARN more about HIP's services for investors and for companies or contact Services@HIPInvestor.com to help you, your portfolio, or your company explore how to be more HIP!
ORGANIZATIONS: Lead Your Industry * HIP Scorecards: Integrate leading Indicators of sustainabilty to manage your performance and ROI across the entire organizatioon. Then align your Board, executives, managers and staff to target HIP results - for your top- and bottom-lines and your stakeholders. * HIP Supplier Scorecard: Bring sustainability and savings into (and lower the risks of) your supply chain - the swiftest path to getting your company to be more HIP. * HIP Strategy Workshops: Design new products for increased sales to meet global customer needs - innovate to grow revenue and capture untapped market share (e.g. 42% market share of Clorox's Green Works cleaning products realized in one year). * HIP Financials and Wall Street Presentation: Educate investors and Wall Street about how quantifiable human impact can lead to profit - great for communicating at shareholder meetings and quarterly earnings calls.
Legal Disclosure: HIP Investor Inc. analyzes publicly listed companies for its own research, for investors and for inclusion in its HIP indices. HIP Investor and its clients may hold a position in these firms, including part of the HIP 100 Index. This overview is intended to demonstrate the value of sustainability and how it links to shareholder value overall, and is not intended as an investment recommendation. This is not an offer of securities.
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With a calendar, music player, internet access, and camera, nowadays your phone does a lot more than just make calls. That’s why your cell phone should be just as HIP as you are. When choosing a cell phone service provider, it’s important to consider not just the features of the network and your device, but also the company’s environmental impact and the equality of its workforce - which can make it even more HIP.
the iPhone, leads telecom companies in environmentalism with pilot programs for wind power in Texas and a savings of 230 million kWh or the equivalent annual electricity use of over 19,000 households. This conservation certainly beats out Verizon’s 16.5 million kWh savings (even adjusting for 25% more revenue at AT&T) in the past year. Sprint’s “plan to build a team to investigate issues relating to the environment,” and MetroPCS’ lack of savings or a plan lag in this category. AT&T also leads the way in supplier diversity considering it is one of only thirteen companies to purchase more than $1 billion annually in materials from women, minority, or disabled-veterans businesses. On the other 
hand, Verizon leads in fair compensation by paying its 223,900 employees significantly more (sometimes up to $10,000) than the next leading telecom service provider.
t and MetroPCS lag behind, providing little information on employee diversity, and Sprint’s board of directors is composed entirely of white men. Does that look like Sprint's customer base, workforce or suppliers?
Joselle Deocampo recently obtained her MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Joselle started her professional career in investment banking where she focused on delivering leveraged finance services to the health care and telecommunications industries and worked at Deloitte developing strategies for the private equity, technology, alternative energy and eCommerce sectors. Joselle has also served as an AmeriCorps fellow where she raised capital and established a Microfinance fund to provide alternative financial services to minority business owners in the Bay Area. Joselle seeks to leverage her private sector experience with her interests in economic development and social responsibility. Outside her professional interests, Joselle enjoys traveling, snow sports and trying new cuisines.
William Finkelstein is a recent graduate of NYU Stern's MBA program. William brings both financial services and sustainable development experience to HIP, from Chubb Insurance and Citigroup to the United Nations Capital Development Fund and Grameen Bank. After HIP, he will be joining Bank of America's Consumer & Retail industry investment banking group. William skis year round in whichever hemisphere presents the opportunity.
Navneet Gautam has obtained two post graduate degrees focusing on Financial Planning and Taxation. He has worked at Deloitte and Ernst & Young, where he substantial federal and international corporate tax experience and worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group. In the M&A group, Navneet focused on Corporate as well as private equity clients. Navneet seeks to focus more on social responsibility and financial advisory services. Navneet is an avid soccer fan and loves to travel around the world.
rsity of California at Los Angeles. Following graduation, she hopes to pursue a career in socially or environmentally responsible business. When she's not doing HIP research, Mara plays lacrosse and enjoys vegetarian cuisine.
Eileen McInerney is currently pursuing an MBA at the University of San Francisco with concentrations in Finance and International Business. As an undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, Eileen studied at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her love of living, studying, and traveling abroad brought her back to Europe working in pubs in both Edinburgh and Galway. Eileen returned to her hometown of San Francisco and settled into working for a law firm before deciding to pursue her MBA. Her interests in both finance and sustainability brought her to HIP where she is quickly learning how to bring HIPness to MBA level financial theory. After graduation Eileen hopes to find a career that is able to mix both her interest and appreciation of foreign cultures with her want to promote sustainability and corporate social responsibility.
undergraduate at Harvard University. She has worked with numerous non-profit organizations and is proud to now be joining the for-profit sector with HIP Investor. When she’s not working with HIP, Sasha enjoys photography, swimming, and cooking.
Soma Parui is currently pursuing her MBA (Finance) at the University of San Francisco. Prior to pursuing her MBA, she worked in the Insurance and IT Services sector for six years in India. She originally hails from India’s business, fashion, and film capital – Mumbai. She balances her free time between evaluating the HIP factor of large companies and cooking different Indian cuisine. Upon graduation, Soma is keen on pursuing a career in Retail Banking. She believes an ideal organization is one that keeps human needs before corporate greed and people before profit.
Darcy Villere is an MBA student at USF emphasizing Entrepreneurship and Marketing, particularly Social Media. He hopes that he can raise HIP's online visibility as well as his own. Please Google us both and help raise our online standing.
graduate student at the University of San Francisco in the MBA/MS Environmental Management program. She is Co-Chair of Net Impact, a student organization on campus that promotes social and environmental responsibility in business. In addition to working at HIP Investor, she is a Co-President of Green & Tonic, a startup that works with Bay Area bars to reduce waste, water and energy. Prior to entering graduate school, Velvet worked as an Associate at TCC Group, a nonprofit consulting firm and as a Project Manager at Wells Fargo. She loves to rock climb in her spare time.
