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International Corporate Citizenship Conference Recognized New Co-Chair AMD

International Corporate Citizenship Conference Recognized New Co-Chair AMD

Published 03-14-05

Submitted by Center for Corporate Citizenship

CHESTNUT HILL - The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College today applauded AMD (NYSE: AMD) for its role as the presenting sponsor and conference co-chair of the annual International Corporate Citizenship Conference to be held April 3-5, 2005 in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center. Support for this year's conference comes from a total of twenty-eight companies at the leading edge of corporate citizenship.

"Sponsoring companies are taking a leadership role in redefining the markers for business success," said Bradley K. Googins, Ph.D., executive director of The Center for Corporate Citizenship. "These companies are investing in an important forum where business professionals share the challenges and best practices related to balancing the expectations of society."

The conference will open with remarks by Tom McCoy, executive vice president, Legal Affairs, and Chief Administrative Officer of AMD, this year's presenting sponsor and conference co-chair. Addressing the more than 500 business professionals attending the conference will be Starbucks Coffee Company CEO-designate Jim Donald; Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter; CEO of ImagineNations Rick Little and futurist and author Andrew Zolli.

This year's conference is titled, Mapping the Future of Corporate Citizenship: Redefining the Markers for Business Success, and will focus on business strategy, best practices and trends related to the role that companies play in society.

The two and a half day conference features 20 learning sessions that explore topics such as:

  • Putting Corporate Citizenship on the Boardroom Agenda
  • Defining the Markers for Corporate Citizenship Success
  • Embedding Social Issues into Your Corporate Brand
  • Corporate Philanthropy: Building Value and Embracing Values
  • The Workforce: An Under-explored Stakeholder in Corporate Citizenship
  • Sustainability: What is Your Connection to it and What Should it be in the Future?
  • Developing Integrated Community and Government Relations Strategies

    The learning sessions will be led by executives representing such leading companies as AMD, Abbott Laboratories, Cone Communications, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Nike and Procter & Gamble.

    The conference will also include a special dinner at the John F. Kennedy Library to pay tribute to The Center's 20th anniversary. For more information: www.bc.edu/ccc/conference.

    The complete list of supporting companies includes: AMD, Accenture, Agilent Technologies, Arch Chemicals, Bank of America, Baxter, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cemex, The Coca-Cola Company, FedEx, Fidelity Investments, Ford Motor Company, Georgia-Pacific, HCA, HSBC, Kaiser Permanente, Kodak, KPMG, Levi Strauss Foundation, Merck, Nokia, Northrup Grumman, PetroCanada, Sprint, Starbucks Coffee Company, TimeWarner, UPS, Verizon SuperPages, Wells Fargo.

    About The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College is a membership-based research organization committed to helping businesses leverage their social, economic and human assets for the good of society. The Center works with its 350 member companies to help them define, plan and operationalize their corporate citizenship. For more information visit www.bc.edu/corporatecitizenship.

    NOTE TO MEDIA:
    The number of press credentials is limited and will be available to journalists affiliated with a news organization, trade publication or online magazine. Those interested in credentials should contact Peggy Connolly at peggy.connolly.1@bc.edu

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