Our Strategic Community Partners
Agility is one of the world's leading providers of integrated logistics to businesses and governments. It is a publicly traded company with close to US$ 6 billion in annual revenue and 32,000 employees in over 550 offices and 120 countries. Agility brings efficiency to supply chains in some of the globe's most challenging environments, offering unmatched personal service, a global footprint, and customized capabilities in developed and emerging economies alike. Agility's commercial division, Agility Global Integrated Logistics (GIL), is headquartered in Switzerland and provides supply chain solutions to customers in technology, retail, chemicals, and other industries. Agility Defense & Government Services (DGS) offers logistics services to governments, relief agencies and international institutions worldwide. Agility Infrastructure group companies primarily focus on opportunities in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, providing infrastructure support in the areas of industrial real estate, customs optimization, and airline services. www.agilitylogistics.com
A global management consulting firm and a leading adviser on business strategy. It partners with clients from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors in all regions to identify their highest value opportunities, address their most critical challenges and transform their enterprises. The company's customized approach aims to give clients sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organizations and secure lasting results. Founded in 1963, it is a private company with 77 offices in 42 countries. www.bcg.com
Citi, the leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. Through Citicorp and Citi Holdings, Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services and wealth management. www.citigroup.com
As one of the world's leading financial services providers, Credit Suisse is committed to delivering its combined financial expertise and experience to corporate, institutional and government clients and high-net-worth individuals around the globe, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse serves its diverse clients through its three divisions: private banking, investment banking and asset management, which cooperate closely to provide holistic financial solutions based on innovative products and specially tailored advice. Credit Suisse's client-focused operations are underpinned by its prudent risk management approach and strict compliance and control culture. As an integrated global bank with an industry-leading capital position, Credit Suisse strives to achieve a superior performance that will ensure the long-term success and prosperity of all its stakeholders. Credit Suisse has a 150-year tradition of banking excellence, and its longstanding principles and values continue to guide the bank as it adapts to the constant changes in today's operating environment.
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on “transformational outsourcing”, underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers an integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including financial services, manufacturing, consumer services, public services and healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of “Employees First, Customers Second”, which empowers its 90,000 transformers to create real value for customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, reported consolidated revenues of US$ 4.3 billion on 30 September 2012 (on an LTM basis). www.hcltech.com
Morgan Stanley has earned a worldwide reputation for the excellence of its advice and execution in financial markets. With more than 1,300 offices in 42 countries, the firm is truly global and a market leader in the US, Europe, Asia and emerging markets. Morgan Stanley's success rests on the talents and passion of its people, who share a common set of values and bring excellence and integrity to everything they do. Morgan Stanley seeks to grow long-term relationships by virtue of its consistently rigorous thinking and the unsurpassed access to financial markets that it can bring. This means providing leadership in specific areas, such as investment banking, debt and equity underwriting, research, and sales and trading. Morgan Stanley also focuses increasingly on creating custom-tailored solutions that cut across functions to help its clients realize new opportunities and solve complex problems. Morgan Stanley's aim is to be the first choice of everyone who deals in financial markets, whether as prospective clients, employees or investors. www.morganstanley.com
Siemens stands for innovation, excellence and responsibility. Its products, systems and solutions set the standards and answer the toughest questions of our time. Over 400,000 employees prove this every day in nearly 190 countries around the world. With leading positions in the energy, industry and healthcare sectors, Siemens is committed to maintaining strong leadership positions in business and society by delivering sustainable value and by improving quality of life. Its environmental portfolio is the broadest and largest in the world. It has the potential to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 300 million tons by 2011 - an amount equal to the total CO2 emissions of seven major cities, including London, New York and Tokyo. With a corporate culture based on performance and the highest ethical standards, Siemens attracts the world's best and brightest people in all business practices. Siemens believes it is uniquely positioned to be among those few companies built to last for today, tomorrow and far into the future. www.siemens.com
Korea's SK Group is redefining the role of the global corporation in the 21st century by basing its business on three core principles: creating customer and shareholder value, playing a key role in social and economic development, and contributing to society's happiness. With 70,000 employees in 95 affiliate companies (March 2012) that range from energy to telecommunications, SK believes that being a global corporation means more than just controlling ever-larger chunks of the marketplace. A truly great global corporation works relentlessly to create opportunities for all stakeholders – shareholders, customers, employees and community members – and this is how happiness travels from hemisphere to hemisphere. SK's underlying philosophy is that when employees are satisfied, performance is maximized because voluntary and willing brain engagement is the most valuable intangible asset in the company. SK also assumes its employees will practice self-control and grants the privilege of designing their own favourable work environment. This philosophy is embodied in the unique SK Management System (SKMS) implemented in 1979. www.sk.com
UBS is a global firm providing financial services to private, corporate and institutional clients. Its strategy is to focus on international wealth management and the Swiss banking business alongside its global expertise in investment banking and asset management. In Switzerland, UBS is the market leader in retail and commercial banking. UBS employs more than 65,000 people around the world. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS operates in over 50 countries and from all major financial centres worldwide. www.ubs.com
VimpelCom is a leading global provider of telecommunications services which operates in 19 countries around the globe. VimpelCom has a simple mission: to foster the freedom and delight of communications anytime and anywhere. The company is a customer-centric, world-class service provider of voice and data services through a range of wireless, fixed and broadband technologies in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Central African Republic, Italy and Canada. The company provides services under the "Beeline", "Kyivstar", "djuice", "Wind", "Infostrada" "Mobilink", "Leo", "Banglalink", "Telecel", and "Djezzy" brands. VimpelCom has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: VIP) since 1996 and has a proud history as a global leader in openness, transparency and good corporate governance: factors that are fundamental to its core values as a service provider, partner, employer, and investment. www.vimpelcom.com
Zurich Insurance Group is a leading multi-line insurance provider with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, as well as other markets. It offers a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services for individuals, small businesses, mid-sized and large companies as well as multinational corporations. Zurich employs about 60,000 people serving customers in more than 170 countries. The Group, formerly known as Zurich Financial Services Group, is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1872. The holding company, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (ZURN), is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American Depositary Receipt Program, which is traded over the counter on OTCQX. www.zurich.com
Our "Social Entrepreneur of the Year" competition Partners
The Schwab Foundation is collaborating with partners to select the "Social Entrepreneur of the Year".
Asia
India: Jubilant Bhartia Foundation
Indonesia: Ernst & Young
Philippines: Ernst & Young
Europe
Czech Republic: Ernst & Young
France: Boston Consulting Group
Switzerland: The Boston Consulting Group
South America
Brazil: Folha Da Sao Paolo
Chile: El Mercurio & Revista Sabado
Venezuela: Venezuela Sin Limites
Other Partners
Deutsche Welle TV
The German public broadcaster providing a 24-hour-a-day source of news and information from Germany and Europe. It distributes from Berlin to five continents via a global satellite network and a few thousand cable network operators and TV channels. It also broadcasts to 5,800 hotels around the world and reaches over 210 million households in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, broadcasting in German, English, Spanish and Arabic. www.dw-world.de/
Frey Charitable Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Foundation seeks to foster economic growth and opportunity globally. The Goldman Sachs Foundation was founded in 1999 with a donation from the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and today supports strategic programs that include 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses. www.goldmansachs.com/foundation
