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...Dell does not have an image as an innovator, as competitors like Apple or even Hewlett-Packard do. Do you see green initiatives as a way to differentiate yourself from competitors...
...founder and chairman of his eponymous computer company, Michael Dell changed the way PCs are made and sold. In the past year, though, rivals have gained on him. So this year he's going for a green advantage: he wants to erase some of the environmental cost of running computers by offering a way to neutralize the carbon dioxide emitted by a PC. Dell, 41, spoke with TIME's Bryan Walsh about climate change, the media and small, shiny objects...
While some firms, like PC maker Dell, are still willing to sponsor major reforestation initiatives, others aren't taking chances. HSBC steered clear of trees when it successfully offset 170,000 tons of its emissions for the last quarter of 2005 through investments in renewable energy projects. "However many trees we planted around the world, we could not keep up [with global CO2 output]", says Francis Sullivan, the bank's environment adviser. HSBC looks, he says, for more efficient uses of its money, such as its investment in a wind farm in New Zealand. Tree planting, Sullivan says...
What do Larry Summers, Gap CEO Paul Pressler, and personal computer mogul Michael Dell all have in common? Pressler may be better dressed, and Dell, with a net worth estimated at $17.1 billion, is a whole lot wealthier than the former Harvard president. But all three men have made BusinessWeek magazine’s “worst of” 2006 list. In its current issue, the weekly says Summers, who jumped from Treasury secretary in the Clinton White House to the top job at Mass. Hall, is the “worst crossover” of the year...
...overflowing information and proliferating media, kids need to rapidly process what's coming at them and distinguish between what's reliable and what isn't. "It's important that students know how to manage it, interpret it, validate it, and how to act on it," says Dell executive Karen Bruett, who serves on the board of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a group of corporate and education leaders focused on upgrading American education...