Drum roll, please,
The new HP Way includes environmentalism, according to Newsweek
The ten greenest companies in the United States are an unsurprising lot. Five are high-tech manufacturers, most are household names. Starbucks made the cut.
Perhaps the most unexpected twist in Newsweek’s greenest companies list is the top entry: Hewlett-Packard, the Silicon Valley computer, printer and services firm that pioneered the HP Way of decentralized, paternalistic management.
The company has certainly turned itself around since being hit with an EPA fine in 1998. It ranks well for controlling toxic releases and promoting recycling. But number one?
Newsweek says it examined the 500 largest American corporations to arrive at its ranking. Each firm’s greenhouse gas emissions, toxic waste emissions, use of natural resources, policies, regulatory compliance and approach to climate change were compared.
Here are the top ten:
Hewlett-Packard
Dell
Johnson & Johnson
Intel
IBM
State Street Corp.
Nike
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Applied Materials
Starbucks
