CSR best practices

The following is an excerpt from the 2019 CSR report. For the last 35 years, Cisco has defined innovation, reimagined connections, and pushed the limits of what’s possible. We helped build the Internet, and the Internet changed everything. Now anything and anyone can be connected, creating infinite…

This guest post comes from Jemy Kannan, a consultant in Cisco’s People & Communities team, partnering closely with business leaders across the APJC region. She is a certified coach and enjoys facilitating Power of Teams, Leader Learning Labs and Design Thinking sprints. Jemy has lived and…

This guest post was written by Emma Reid, global marketing manager, Cisco Networking Academy Corporate Affairs, Asia Pacific & Japan at Cisco and recent winner of the ARN Women in IT Awards. In 2014, experts across Asia Pacific recognized a troubling trend — a growing number of female students…

This holiday season, Cisco has a lot to be grateful for: 35 years of business growth and, today, the launch of our 15th corporate social responsibility (CSR) report. This was my first time shepherding the process of producing a CSR report for a company the size of Cisco, and it was a doozy: we conne…

Research Triangle Park (RTP) in North Carolina is Cisco’s second largest campus in the U.S. after our headquarters in San Jose, California. RTP is a growing campus in a regional innovation hub, surrounded by leading research universities and clean technology ventures. This makes RTP an excellent pla…

When Tina Swallow, director of Department of Defense services sales at Cisco, joined Cisco 12 years ago, she didn’t know where she was going to end up. At the time, she was interviewing for the role from Yokosuka, Japan, where her family was stationed and where her husband was still serving in the U…

Every person who has experienced homelessness has a story. Before Joanne Richards was homeless, she raised three children. She describes herself at that time as the typical PTA soccer mom; she lived in Castro Valley, a Bay Area suburb, and drove a Chevy Suburban. “When I was raising my kids, I chose…

This post is written by guest blogger Maha Achour. Achour is the founder and CEO of Metawave. She has a PhD in theoretical physics from MIT. Achour is a global thought leader on the millimeter wave and the future of autonomous driving and wireless communications.  To hear more from Achour please joi…

Dr. Geetha Manjunath shares her personal experience perusing a STEM education and why she founded Niramai. Niramai developed a new cancer screening software that uses machine intelligence with thermography images to enable a low cost, easy to use, portable solution to detect cancer at a much earlier…