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...CHOOSE A CAUSE Cisco Systems' $40 million pledge--$10 million from the chairman and $2 million from the CEO--to rebuild Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast schools underscored the company's commitment to educational reform. That followed on the heels of a 2003 Jordan Education Initiative, spearheaded and partially funded by Cisco, to offer Internet-enabled learning to the developing world. Volunteers were also sent to Ethiopia to teach computer and Internet skills...
...frustrations with Harvard began with his freshman housing assignment. On his application, he had asked fervently for at least one black or Latino roommate. Instead, he got three white Republicans. His roommate, Yves-Georges A. Joseph II ’06, praises “Cisco,” as Perez is known, for converting his complaints with Harvard into concrete advocacy. “He turns his words into actions,” Joseph writes in an e-mail, describing the many weekends Perez has devoted to community organizing. “I feel like I have to take...
NAME: Noni Allwood COMPANY: Cisco TITLE: Director of gender diversity...
...excluded in the work environment," she says. She retaliated by overcompensating, taking on ever bigger tasks, traveling, working day and night, until she ran the company's worldwide systems programs. Today she tries to change the equation by working on a program to introduce underprivileged girls to IT as Cisco's director of global gender diversity...
...consider is the role of major US corporations in helping China to deploy the restrictions. It’s hard to expect deep ethical consideration by entities that exists largely to provide returns for their shareholders, but there’s substantial evidence at least in the case of Cisco (a company that makes firewall and routing hardware, including the wireless access points in the dorms here at Harvard, and also manufactures the Linksys brand of consumer networking devices) that they’re being complicit in unsavory ways. A brochure which Cisco handed out at a 2002 trade conference...