SpotlightWHY AMD IS BETTING ITS CHIPS ON EFFICIENCY.Chipmaker AMD has been gaining ground in its fight against
Intel for market share, and a key weapon is its new Ryzen proces-
sor. Early reviews say the chip has been beating Intel core proces-
sors in recent tests and, crucially, is 25 times more efficient than
its other processors. “At AMD, we’re all about building great prod-
ucts that can change the world for the better,” says CEO Lisa Su,
who has tasked engineers with improving the energy efficiency of
all products. That’s an environmental commitment that has helped
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-
pany have a positive impact on the communities in which we op-
erate and on the world in which we live,” Su says. “It’s important to
me as CEO, and I know it’s important to AMD employees around
the world.”Worker Treatment
For the third year in a row, Nvidia has outpaced the
rest of the Just 100 in how it treats its employees,
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
Beau Davidson, the semiconductor producer’s VP
of employee experience. “We didn’t want to make
an unintended value statement that one way of
building your family is better than another.”Jensen Huang
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TREATMENTCUSTOMERTREATMENTCOMMUNITYTREATMENTENVIRONMENTAL^TREATMENTSHAREHOLDER^TREATMENT- The Hartford CHRISTOPHER SWIFT
34 245 122 109 4 - Workday ANEEL BHUSRI
5 313 257 1 660 - Edwards MICHAEL MUSSALLEM
20 26 256 98 76 - Keysight RON NERSESIAN
31 164 53 47 169 - Hewlett Packard Enterprise ANTONIO NERI
135 7 58 20 127 - GM MARY BARRA
57 131 38 482 3 - Verizon HANS VESTBERG
43 322 18 192 103 - IBM GINNI ROMETTY
80 59 37 65 213 - Symantec RICHARD S. HILL
30 36 75 54 742 - Adobe SHANTANU NARAYEN
16 31 346 37 670 - AT&T RANDALL STEPHENSON
194 75 12 382 30 - Agilent MIKE MCMULLEN
60 78 116 51 329 - Accenture JULIE SWEET
46 498 333 25 27 - Eversource JAMES JUDGE
90 43 154 137 153 - Exelon CHRISTOPHER M. CRANE
48 546 119 253 31 - Boston Scientific MICHAEL MAHONEY
24 863 146 57 107 - Xylem PATRICK DECKER
253 143 152 16 10 - Biogen MICHEL VOUNATSOS
41 282 202 94 392 - Kimberly-Clark MICHAEL D. HSU
171 58 76 241 67
METHODOLOGY: Forbes partnered with Just Capital to rigorously evaluate
922 of the nation’s largest publicly traded companies (the Russell 1000 minus
REITs and pending mergers). Just Capital pulls data from public reports, com-
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
Americans indicate are the most important aspects of business behavior:
worker treatment (35% weighting), customer treatment (24%), community
support (18%), environmental impact (11%) and leadership behavior (11%).