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Worker Treatment
TREATMENT
For the third year in a row, Nvidia has outpaced the ENVIRONMENTAL SHAREHOLDER
rest of the Just 100 in how it treats its employees, WORKER TREATMENT CUSTOMER TREATMENT COMMUNITY TREATMENT TREATMENT
thanks to programs like same-sex health insurance
coverage in every country where it operates (and is
legal) and unlimited adoption coverage for all em-
ployees. “We wanted an equitable approach,” says 13. The Hartford CHRISTOPHER SWIFT
Beau Davidson, the semiconductor producer’s VP
of employee experience. “We didn’t want to make 34 245 122 109 4
Jensen Huang an unintended value statement that one way of 14. Workday ANEEL BHUSRI
CEO, Nvidia building your family is better than another.”
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WHY AMD IS BETTING ITS CHIPS ON EFFICIENCY.
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20. IBM GINNI ROMETTY
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21. Symantec RICHARD S. HILL
30 36 75 54 742

22. Adobe SHANTANU NARAYEN
16 31 346 37 670
23. AT&T RANDALL STEPHENSON

194 75 12 382 30
24. Agilent MIKE MCMULLEN
60 78 116 51 329

25. Accenture JULIE SWEET
46 498 333 25 27

26. Eversource JAMES JUDGE
90 43 154 137 153
27. Exelon CHRISTOPHER M. CRANE

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28. Boston Scientific MICHAEL MAHONEY
24 863 146 57 107

Chipmaker AMD has been gaining ground in its fight against 29. Xylem PATRICK DECKER
Intel for market share, and a key weapon is its new Ryzen proces-
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sor. Early reviews say the chip has been beating Intel core proces-
sors in recent tests and, crucially, is 25 times more efficient than 30. Biogen MICHEL VOUNATSOS
its other processors. “At AMD, we’re all about building great prod- 41 282 202 94 392
ucts that can change the world for the better,” says CEO Lisa Su,
who has tasked engineers with improving the energy efficiency of 31. Kimberly-Clark MICHAEL D. HSU
all products. That’s an environmental commitment that has helped 171 58 76 241 67 ILLUSTRATIONS BY CRANIO DSGN FOR FORBES
the chipmaker rise in the Just 100 rankings, from No. 89 two years
ago to No. 65 this year. “It’s equally important that we as a com- METHODOLOGY: Forbes partnered with Just Capital to rigorously evaluate
922 of the nation’s largest publicly traded companies (the Russell 1000 minus
pany have a positive impact on the communities in which we op- REITs and pending mergers). Just Capital pulls data from public reports, com-
erate and on the world in which we live,” Su says. “It’s important to pany surveys and crowdsourced repositories and, using a team of data sci-
entists and statisticians, weighs that data based on what a survey of 95,000
me as CEO, and I know it’s important to AMD employees around Americans indicate are the most important aspects of business behavior:
worker treatment (35% weighting), customer treatment (24%), community
the world.” support (18%), environmental impact (11%) and leadership behavior (11%).

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