Center for Social Innovation

Published: July 07, 2011 Download  37 minutes, 17.1mb, recorded 2011-01-18

Whose interests should a company serve? How does corporate social responsibility (CSR) fit into that outlook? In this audio lecture, former Hewlett Packard VP Debra Dunn draws on her own background to talk about the technology company’s “DNA for CSR,” and how the firm engaged with internal and external stakeholders to be good citizens and help improve communities around the world. Dunn delivered her remarks to MBA students in the Corporate Social Innovation through Social Responsibility course at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Debra Dunn is the former vice president at Hewlett-Packard Global Citizenship. As such, she had leadership responsibility for HP's corporate, social, and environmental responsibility, government and public affairs, and corporate philanthropy. Previously, she served as HP's vice president of strategy and corporate operations. Dunn joined HP in 1983 as an executive development manager in the corporate training division in Palo Alto, California. She became manufacturing manager in 1992 and worked her way up to be elected an HP vice president in November 1999. Dunn holds a BA in comparative economics from Brown University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Resources

• Dunn's talk on Youtube
• The Responsibility Paradox, a Stanford Social Innovation Review article
• The Myth of CSR, a Stanford Social Innovation Review article