Corporate Sustainability: A Sprint or Marathon?

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🗓️ 11 June 2010

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Corporate Sustainability: A Sprint or Marathon? Dan Hesse, CEO, Sprint When every company claims to be a green leader, how can consumers know which ones really are? Hesse will share his insights on why sustainable growth is sound business and can offer a competitive edge in an industry expanding rapidly around the world. What are the energy and environmental impacts of the global wireless revolution? Sprint has introduced eco-friendly phones and placed in the top 20 of Newsweek magazine’s 2009 Green Rankings of 500 U.S. corporations. How is it going to stay ahead of the green curve? This program was recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco on June 8, 2010 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy? Climate One at the
0:36.0	Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:41.5	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:48.2	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture, Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.
0:56.3	It's our future. It's time to come together.
0:59.4	Welcome to the closing keynote here at the Corporate Eco Forum. We're happy to announce that in partnership with the Climate One initiative at the Commonwealth Club of California,
1:09.7	we are bringing this keynote session as a joint program this year.
1:13.7	The format of this session is going to be quite different. Our keynote, Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint,
1:19.1	will make a formal presentation. As you know, at CEF in the regular sessions, PowerPoints are not allowed.
1:27.3	But we're making an exception this time. And his formal
1:31.1	presentation will be followed by a conversation with Greg Dalton, who is a vice president
1:35.5	with the Commonwealth Club and the founder of Climate One program there. And we'll also include
1:40.7	a Q&A session from the audience that the Commonwealth Club members are used to.
1:45.0	The session is being taped for future broadcast on the Climate One TV program,
1:50.0	and will also be made available to the NPR network for broadcast.
1:54.0	So anything said here is on the record, both the speech as well as the Q&A session.
2:00.0	Now on to Dan Hessey. Dan was named the president and CEO of Sprint Nextel in December 2007.
2:08.1	Prior to this appointment, he was president and chairman and CEO of Embark and before that,
2:13.8	president and CEO of Terrebeam.
2:16.6	Prior to that, he spent 23 years at AT&T, where he served as the
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