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HIP^TM = Human Impact + Profit: for your company, your portfolio and your world.	October and November 2007
IN THIS ISSUE: How HIP is Your Bank? Insights: Employees, You Have the Power LaunchMyHIPcareer 2007: Deadline Extended by Demand Intel, McDonald's + NetImpact Leaders to Judge Fall 2007 Competition for University Students How HIP Is It? Find HIP Friends See HIP in Public Share the Excitement: How HIP Can Help You HOW HIP IS YOUR BANK? Does your bank improve the lives of customers, employees and society overall? How can you as a customer and investor encourage your bank to be more HIP? Read on, then call your bank to demand HIP ways to manage your money - and the Bank’s. HIP Investor studied 28 well-known, branded banks across the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia to determine their HIP factor. We sought to identify trends in the banking industry focused on: (1) What innovative PRODUCTS benefit society as well as shareholders? (See three HIP products in the blog.) (2) How are banks implementing PRACTICES that benefit the health of their customers, benefit the environment, and boost wealth and equality? (Read about five HIP banks.) (3) Does the focus on solving human problems first result in PROFITS for shareholders ? (How much do HIP stocks grow?) Read the rest of our banking industry analysis in our HIP blog, authored by Dina Beigelman and guided by Jessica Skylar. INSIGHTS: Employees, You Have the Power There is one message we (HIP and our global joint venture partner SVT Group) have heard from every (yes, 100%) CEO, Board member, executive and corporate manager in our conversations this year: Employees (and new recruits) have the power. Staff are asking managers and executives what the company is doing for the health, wealth, earth and equality of society HEALTH: African-American employees at General Electric (GE) asked CEO Jeff Immelt what GE was doing for African health care - resulting in a $20 million check and volunteers who found new health-care markets for already existing intellectual property repurposed into low-cost incubators and ultrasound machines. WEALTH: Global financial firm Citigroup's (C) microfinance (small loans to low-income entrepreneurs) business unit (not a cost center or philanthropy group) attracts hundreds of resumes for just a few open positions. EARTH: One in six employees at office furniture maker Herman Miller (MLHR)participates on a Sustainability council. EQUALITY: Pharmaceutical firm Merck (MRK)is launching 9 new employee groups that increase the influence and communication about issues that are important to staff, including how they are represented across the company. New Recruits Want HIP Information: The New York Times reported that law students are ranking the law firms that are recruiting them - and shunning those large partnerships that have yet to find enough women, ethnic or openly gay partners. Net Impact, an association of MBAs and professionals dedicated to business sustainability, converged on Nashville for its annual conference - 1800 attended, a 6-X jump in 8 years. Shell Oil company (RDS.A) expects to lose up to half of its engineers in the next 5 years - and is heavily promoting its "sustainable development" approach to new recruits. Executives and managers: What will your company do? How will you recruit the next generation of leadership? How will you engage your current employee base to keep morale high? Human Impact is just as important as Profit to staff - and being HIP is essential. Employees: Is your company creating Human Impact? How will sustainability drive new products, practices or profit? Will you be a HIP leader? You have the power to create change. 2007 LAUNCH MY HIP CAREER: DEADLINE EXTENDED BY DEMAND FROM STUDENTS + PROF'S By popular demand, university students (undergraduate and post-graduate - MBA, JD, MD, MSW, PhD, etc.) and professors have asked us to extend the deadline for our inaugural Fall 2007 HIP Scorecard competition. We hear you - and the new deadline is December 31, 2007. For this competition, students will use the HIP scorecard to rate 10 or more companies within an industry (e.g. health care, fast food, bicycles, micro-insurance) or geographic theme (e.g. Utah, Canada, South Africa, world-wide). Winners with the top scorecards will receive up to $1,000 and have the opportunity to present to sustainability leaders from Intel, McDonald's and Net Impact! See http://www.LaunchMyHIPcareer.com/ for complete rules and entry information. INTEL, McDONALD's and NET IMPACT TO JUDGE FALL 2007 HIP COMPETITION Leaders from Intel, McDonald's + Net Impact leaders have signed up to serve as judges for the inaugural Launch My HIP Career Competition. Read below to learn about how these prominent executives are leading the way! (Intel and McDonald's were also included in the HIP Scorecard featured in Fast Company magazine's April 2007 issue.) Bob Langert, Vice President of Sustainability, McDonald's (MCD) Bob Langert serves as the Vice President of Sustainability at McDonald's, leads MCD's social responsibility efforts and directs social and environmental policy analysis. Mr. Langert is also repsonsibile for strategic program development and the companies social responsibility reporting. His position leads him to be directly involved in global supply chain issues, directing strategies related to sustainable agricultre, biotechnology, animal agricultural and animal welfare and nutritional and health issues. Mr. Langert has worked at McDonald’s since 1983, including roles focused on distribution, leading environmental affairs and heading up Public and Community Affairs before merging efforts to create the Corporate Responsibility Department he heads today. Liz Maw, Executive Director, Net Impact Liz Maw joined Net Impact as the Executive Director in the Fall of 2004. At Net Impact, Ms. Maw helps bring the student voice to the forefront of corporate social responsibility issues, whether that is through curriculum change or campus greening at universities, or through influencing recruiters in their hiring of socially conscious employees. Ms. Maw has been active with the Net Impact network since 1999; she was a co-leader of the student Net Impact chapter at Columbia Business School and a co-founder and leader of the San Francisco Bay Area Professionals Chapter. Ms. Maw's professional experience includes strategic consulting to nonprofits with the Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit strategy consulting firm, as well as fundraising and direct marketing for nonprofit organizations in New York City and Washington, D.C. She holds a BA with honors from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Ms. Maw also spent one semester at the Haas School of Business at Univ. of California at Berkeley. Dave Stangis, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Intel Corp. (INTC) Mr. Stangis is Intel Corporation’s Director of Corporate Responsibility. He works across Intel business units (Environment Health Safety - EHS, Legal, Government Affairs, Human Resources) to coordinate strategy in line with external CSR/Sustainability drivers. He manages Intel’s relationship with the social investment universe, coordinates public affairs and external engagement in the area of Corp. Responsibility. Mr. Stangis manages production of Intel’s Corporate Responsibility Report and monitors and responds to emerging issues that may affect the company’s reputation. He is a member of Intel’s Ethics and Compliance Oversight Committee and facilitates the Company’s Corporate Responsibility Management Review Committee. He also leads Intel’s Community Solutions Group. Intel Community Solutions seeks to enhance communities worldwide through innovative technology applications. Prior to his current assignment, he served as Intel's EHS External Affairs Manager and produced Intel’s Environmental, Health and Safety performance report. Mr. Stangis has been with Intel since 1996 and held a range of EHS and policy positions prior to Intel. "HOW HIP IS IT?"^TMMonthly Contest Our monthly contest to rate your favorite (or most hated) product! 1. First, choose any product on the market - this can be something very HIP (think electric-powered convertible autos, like the Tesla) or a new product (think iPhones) or even something clearly un-HIP (think cigarettes). 2. Then, using HIP's innovative framework, analyze the product's HIP factor and demonstrate how sharp your HIP lens is. 3. A winner selected each month can win $100, entry to our annual competition AND a chance to be published. See http://www.HowHIPisIt.com/ for complete rules and entry information. SHARE THE EXCITEMENT: HOW HIP CAN HELP YOU Help spread HIP as the new way to maximize both Human Impact + Profit for your company, your portfolio and your world! Here are three easy ways to make the world a more HIP place to be: 1) Enter HIP's competitions 2) Share this newsletter 3) Ask your employer how they are creating both Human Impact + Profit to be more HIP. Learn more about HIP's services for Investors and for Companies or contact Jessica@HIPInvestor.com to help you or your organization be even more HIP!	HIP COMPETITION: DEADLINE EXTENDED, 3 JUDGES ANNOUNCED By popular demand, the deadline of the Fall 2007 LaunchMyHIPCareer^TMCompetition is now extended to Dec. 31. Also, we are proud to announce three innovative leaders in sustainability who will judge the finalists: * Bob Langert, VP Sustainability at McDonald's (MCD) * Dave Stangis, Director of Corporate Responsibility at Intel Corp. (INTC) * Liz Maw, Executive Director of Net Impact Enter the competition FIND HIP FRIENDS Want to make friends who are HIP? Join our networks at: Join HIPinvestor Add HIP on Facebook Add HIP on MySpace SEE HIP IN PUBLIC Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI) Europe November 15-16, 2007 Paris, France REGISTER TODAY! Commonwealth Club Business Forum February 20, 2008 San Francisco, CA Register in December
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