A leader in fiber optics, Verizon offers phone, Internet, TV, wireless and service bundles to residential, business, government and wholesale clients.
September 15, 2011: A transcript of Kathryn Brown's Berges Lecture Series speech at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College Of Business. She speaks on the concept of creating shared value and the need to rethink what is expected of American business. A video of the speech is available on the Berges Lecture Series website.
Shared Success: Corporate Values in Action
The essential components of Verizon's Shared Success principles condensed on a single page.
March 31, 2011: Verizon's approach to creating shared value as it is applied to environmental sustainability. (6 pages)
June 17, 2010: How Verizon builds Sustainability into its complex business systems. (4 pages)
April 13, 2010: Closing keynote address at the 2010 International Coporate Citzenship Conference on the need for an ethical compass in American business. (7 pages)
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By cutting back on air shipments, consolidating truck deliveries and increasing use of rail shipping, we reduced CO2 emissions in freight delivery by 14.4%.
Harnessing the power of the sun to extend our wireless network to remote areas, Verizon is also installing more energy-efficient equipment as part of an upgrade to our fiber-optic network. Once complete, energy consumption could be reduced by 116 million kilowatt hours per year, or 86,000 mertric tons of CO2 emissions — equivalent to taking almost 16,000 passenger cars off of the highway.
