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A Morning of Inspiration with Cisco Networking Academy Students

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This blog was originally published on Cisco’s internal employee website. “Follow your dreams. Don’t be afraid. Hold your heads high!”   These were the words shared by Alison Gleeson, Cisco’s Senior Vice President of Americas Sales and Jordi Botifoll, Cisco’s President of the Latin America Theater, to students at a recent Cisco Networking Academy event during Cisco Live! […]

Cisco Releases Eleventh Annual CSR Report

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Today, I’m delighted to announce the release of Cisco’s eleventh annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report. Cisco technology is an integral part of the Internet, and in the digitized era we enable the connections between people, processes, data, and things in ways that create social, environmental and economic impact. These connections make amazing things possible, […]

November 18, 2015

INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY

Changing the Equation

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It’s been a little more than a year since we created Cisco’s first Office of Inclusion and Collaboration (OIC).   And it’s been a milestone year.  Today, we’re releasing our annual Corporate Social Responsibility report (CSR), which details Cisco’s high-level priorities for being socially and environmentally responsible, and I’m honored to share the highlights of our […]

November 18, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Our Unique Focus on Making the World a Better Place

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In a world of constant change, one thing that has remained consistent over my past 18 years at Cisco is that customers and government leaders truly believe in the transformative...

Behind the Scenes with the Cisco Networking Academy Dream Team

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Earlier this year, Cisco senior system engineer Josh Kittle attended Cisco Live in San Diego and had his first encounter with the Cisco Networking Academy Dream Team – a group of students who are given the chance to gain real-world experience setting up massive networks at high-profile events like Cisco Live and the NBA All-Star […]

Cisco Celebrates Heroes on Veterans Day

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Today in the United States is Veterans Day, where we give thanks to the millions of veterans who have served our country in wartime and peace. Originally called Armistice Day in honor of the cessation of hostilities between the Allied nations and Germany in World War 1 on the 11th hour of the 11th day […]

Cisco’s Be the Bridge Campaign Empowers Employees to Change the World

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For the past 15 years, Cisco's helped raise more than $40 million and deliver nearly 160 million meals as part of its global hunger relief efforts. We've changed millions of lives, and...

Cisco, North Carolina Partner to Empower Military Veterans

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On Tuesday, October 20, North Carolina’s Governor Pat McCrory swore in retired U.S. Marine major general Cornell Wilson as the state’s first cabinet-level secretary of the new Department of Military and Veteran Affairs. Cisco’s Stan Roberts, a Research Triangle Park-based customer support engineer and former Marine wounded in Afghanistan, was invited by General Wilson to […]

Training and Educating Latin America’s Future Workforce

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More than 56 million people in Latin America rose above the poverty line between 2002 and 2011. Thanks to a thriving job market and rising wages, the middle class in the region grew by 82 million people in that time span, as more people discovered new economic opportunities in an increasingly connected world. The explosion […]