CSR Awards & Recognitions

2012 Cisco CSR Awards

Cisco received the following awards in 2012 in recognition of its efforts to be a good corporate citizen. Date in parentheses is date award was issued.

Environment

• Cool IT Challenge (#2), Greenpeace International (February 2012)
• 50 Best Global Green Brands (#11), Interbrand (June 2012)
• Belgacom Supplier Award, Sustainability Category (October 2012)

Governance and Ethics

• World’s Most Ethical Companies, Ethisphere Institute (March 2012)

Our People

• 100 Best Companies (#90), Fortune Magazine (January 2012)
• Top 50 Companies for Executive Women (#8), National Association for Female Executives (February 2012)
• World's Most Admired Companies (#42 of 358), Fortune Magazine (March 2012)
• Best Place to Work, for Cisco Portugal, Great Place to Work Institute (March 2012)
• Top 50 Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities (#12), DiversityBusiness.com (April 2012)
• 100 Best Corporate Citizens List (#43), Corporate Responsibility Magazine (April 2012)
• Disability Matters Workplace Award, Springboard Consulting, (April 2012)
• Top 20 Highest Rated Companies Hiring Interns (#10), Glass Door (May 2012)
• Top 50 Best Places for Diverse Managers to Work (#35), Diversity MBA Magazine (May 2012)
• Asian Women of Achievement Awards, Community Award, Real Business (May 2012)
• Top 100 Ideal Employers for MBAs (#68), Universum (June 2012)
• 25 Best Companies for Multicultural Women (Top 10), Working Mother Magazine (June 2012)
  
• Best in Class Finalist, Asia Society Diversity Leadership Forum (June 2012)
• 100 Best Companies, Working Mother Magazine (September 2012)
• Top 100 Companies Recruiting Veterans, U.S. Veterans Magazine (October 2012)
• Top 50 Best Employers in Canada (#1), Aon Hewitt (October 2012)
• World’s Best Multinational Workplaces (#21), Great Place to Work Institute (November 2012)

Society

• 100 Best Corporate Citizens List (#43), Corporate Responsibility Magazine (April 2012)
• Brass Ring Award, 40 Million Pounds Club, and Corporate Champion, Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties (April 2012)
• A Better World Award, Triangle Business Journal (April 2012)
• Business Action on Health Award in the “Application of Core Competence” category, for Connecting Sichuan, GBC Health (May 2012)
• Laureate Award Recognition, Training/Education category, Computerworld Honors Program (June 2012)
• 2012 Corporate Philanthropy Award, San Francisco Times (July 2012)
• Silver Award to the Cisco Tactical Operations Team, California Emergency Services Association Coastal Chapter (August 2012)
• Outstanding Philanthropic Corporation, American Association of Fundraising Professionals Triangle Chapter (September 2012)
• Top Corporate Philanthropists of Silicon Valley (#2), Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal (November 2012)

Supply Chain

• Gartner Supply Chain 25 (#8), Gartner (April 2012)

General CSR Awards

• Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America Indices, Dow Jones and SAM (September 2012)
• FTSE4Good Index Series, FTSE International and Ethical Research Services (September 2012)
• oekom research Prime Status, oekom research AG (September 2012)
• Best Corporate Citizenship Award to Cisco China, 21st Century Business Herald (December 2012)
• Outstanding Corporate Citizenship Award to Cisco China, China Philanthropy Times under the Ministry of Civil Affairs (December 2012)
• 2012 Outstanding CSR Case Studies Award to Cisco China, China Philanthropy Times under the Ministry of Civil Affairs (December 2012)
• Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable’s (SBER) Outstanding Corporate Leader of 2012, Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. (December 2012)