A Reflective presentation on Nvidia’s Sustainability, Responsibility and Business Ethics

A combined effort by Section-6 FAS-34

Introduction to NVIDIA

 American multinational technology company based in Santa Clara

 Founded on April 5 , 1993 by Jensen Huang

 Known for revolutionary graphical computation innovation

 Currently the giant players in Artificial Intelligence

 Pioneers behind the Green Supercomputer Initiative

 Popular for its line of graphical computing technology cards and drivers, “GeForce”
Economic Initiatives of NVIDIA

 Innovations
- Constantly invest in R&D of new products, technology and operational practices.
- Reportable segments of graphics and Compute & Networking
- Platforms address 4 large markets where expertise is critical
 Business Model and Competitiveness
- Focused towards identifying emerging industry changes and develop new products
- Meet customer safety and compliance standards

 Trade Issues
- Making the supply chain efficient- Reduction in costs

 Data utility and privacy

- Utilization of data for predicting rate climate change, universal works of recycling & innovations.

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Business Continuity Management

Anticipate the likelihood of severe events and make attempts towards mitigating these risks
 

1. Climate Risk : Making investments for an impact and Risk Assessment

 

 
- Took measures to make their data centers and labs relatively cooler over their competitors
 
- ~ 2% of their revenues goes into developing software for identifying and diagnosing climatic conditions.
 

2. EPEAT : Reduction in long term infrastructure costs.

 

 
- Sustainable IT procurement decisions

3. Workforce development and Developer Education

 

 
- Skill based training for citizens of every community
 
- Customized services and products for medical research, renewable resources, solar energy expansion etc.

4. "It's not a job, it's an employee experience"

 

 - Reduction in attrition costs

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Social Imperatives by Nvidia
Improvements in Supply Chain Management:

• Product regulatory compliance standards

• Social compliance standards
• Chemical management
• Suppliers sign agreement of Manufacturer environmental compliance

Human Rights:

• No Contractual employment to any employee

• Workers will be provided the contract in his/her native language.
• No recruitment fees to be paid to the recruiter, if found the fees shall be returned

Correction in Pay and promotion parity:

• 3rd party economist since 2015 to analyze pa practice amongst gender race, ethnicity across 75+ parameters
• Achieved pay parity in 2016, and are continue in doing it

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Social Imperatives by Nvidia

Diversity and Inclusion:

• Created a role dedicated role : Head of Diversity

• Emphasize the recruitment of women and member of underrepresented community
• Investment in historically black colleges’ Hispanic institutes and professional Org.

Managing Covid-19:

• Directing major CSR funds to setting up covid health support centers across India.
• As COVID-19 became a health concern, they were very early in deciding to shut all NVIDIA offices worldwide. They asked
employees to work from home and to make their loved ones their top priority. In a survey, 94 percent of employees said
they felt well supported by NVIDIA during the crisis.

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 Social Imperatives by Nvidia
Corporate culture arises from 5 core values
• Innovation
• Intellectual honesty
• Speed and agility
• Excellence and determination
• One team

Employee Engagement
• Pulse surveys
• Wellness program in these covid times
• Grievance mechanisms

Community Engagement:
• Matching gifts, flexible time off, variety of activities and tools provided to employees
• NVIDIA’s philanthropic giving through contributions and community partnerships exceeded $25 million
• Raised almost $19 million for Covid Relief
• Clocked 9000 hours of volunteer work through virtual platforms
• Overall was successful in supporting 5000 nonprofits in 50 countries!

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Identifying Environmental Initiatives - Global

Supporting the UN’s sustainable development goals to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.

• Using Artificial Intelligence to protect Marine Life from Extinction

• Reducing carbon footprint in Transports and Logistics

• Tackling climate change by converting 65% of company's operations through renewable resources by
2025

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 Evaluating Environmental Initiatives

The NVDIA processors and Humanoid machines use A.I. to help relocate the algae to another part of ocean
and help in the survival of rare and extinct species of precious marine life.

All the emissions generated via transportation and logistics are reduced by efficient packing, transporting
large and bulk orders at once rater than smaller shipments. In addition, 55% of company’s logistics vehicles
are now electric all over the world.

A science-based reduction target aligned with a 1.5-degree Celsius warming scenario set in-line with FY25
and Green parks are established. So far 17 locations obtained 25% of operations to run on renewable
resources as per 2020 CSR report.

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Identifying Environmental Initiatives - Local

NGO Partner

• Energy harvest charitable trust - Aims to reduce open-field burning by connecting small farmers with
machinery owners.

• Foundation for ecological security - Will build ten water-harvesting structures and a dozen systems for
diversion-based irrigation.

• Saahas - Will implement a solid-waste management project in Ejipura slum.

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Evaluating Environmental Initiatives

• Paving paths for alternative energy sources using agricultural waste. Improving air quality by saving
hundreds of acres from burning.

• Increasing vegetative cover and the irrigation potential of the land. Income through the sale of non-
timber forest products such as medicinal plants, leaves, and honey.

• Due to regular collection of segregated waste, living standards would be transformed by reducing
greenhouse gasses, creating visibly cleaner areas and eliminating the burning of waste.

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 How do Nvidia’s initiative compare with those of two close competitors.
• For this presentation, we identify QUALCOMM and AMD as our close • We will evaluate Nvidia with competitors in terms of ‘economic’, ‘social’ and
‘environmental’ aspects
competitors

• Nvidia aims to cut down on dedicated
ECONOMIC
datacentres by replacing it by AWS.
• End life treatment of hardware offsets.
• Energy and resource optimization of factories
to make production centres more
economically viable
• Reduce power consumption by 10 percent, every
year in our flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile
Platform products.
• AMD aims by 2030, upgrade infrastructure and
retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with
increased resource-use efficiency and greater
adoption of clean and environmentally sound
technologies and industrial processes

SOCIAL • Nvidia has raised $19 million for Covid-19 relief
fund and has adopted 20 Covid care centers and
NGOs across the globe.
• Nvidia target gender neutrality across all offices
around world thereby inculcating LGBTQ+
guidelines in workplace ethics
• Increase representation of Women in
leadership by 15 percent.
• Increase underrepresented minorities leadership
(URM) representation by 15 percent.
• By 2030, empower and promote the social,
economic and political inclusion of all,
irrespective of age, sex, disability, race,
ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or
other status

ENVIRONMENTAL • Targets to reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 • Targets to reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 • Targets to reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope
GHG emissions by 25% by 2025 from global GHG emissions by 30% by 2025 from global 2 GHG emissions by 20% by 2025 from global
operations, compared to a 2014 baseline. operations, compared to a 2014 baseline. operations, compared to a 2014 baseline.

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• Qualcomm is named amongst Fortune’s Change the World list. It is also
• Nvidia is already moving on from silicon semiconductors(>=5nm) to
named one of America’s Most
Molybdenum Disulfide semiconductors(<=1nm) which will improve the
Responsible Companies by Newsweek, ranking amongst the top 5 companies.
efficiency of semiconductors by 78% and reduce power consumption by

• COVID-19 Response 41%., thereby reducing

• Protecting the Health and Safety of their Employees and

Communities
• AMD has partnered with BITCOIN and aims to reduce BITCOIN environment

• Delivering Critical Connectivity and Support to their Local and Global impact by reducing power consumption of super-computers and servers by
Communities
introducing 35% more efficient processors.
• Supporting Small-Businesses impacted by COVID-19
• COVID-19 Response

• Directing major CSR funds to setting up covid health support centers

• Priorities/ Key Accomplishments
across India
• Purposeful Innovation
• AMD is supporting NGO “SEWA” to bridge the gap between
• Our People
hospitals and patients by supporting free ambulances.
• STEM Education

• Responsible Business

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Responsible Practices Framework

A sustainable development matrix depicts how a company uses its

 

resources to impact itself and its stakeholders in terms of sustainable

development.


Through its environmental practices, Nvidia exercises responsibility
towards preserving natural resources and using alternate energy
sources. The “green supercomputer” initiative is a perfect example.


Through its economic practices, Nvidia responsibly exercises parity in
pay, smart supply chain and smart cost reduction to benefit its
monetary and strategic partners grow its brand value further.


Through it’s social practices, Nvidia responsibly gives back to the
society, owing to its massive philanthropic programs and extends
help to everyone in need ( Helping people dealing with Covid-19).

Therefore, we see Nvidia being responsible in any way they possibly

 

can and carefully abiding by the sustainable development matrix,

increasing brand value along with satisfying and benefitting its
stakeholders
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Stakeholder Vs Company Impact Graph

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Benefits of Responsible Practices to Stakeholders


Communities: Supported more than 5,000 nonprofits in 50 countries around the world. There philanthropic giving exceeded $25
million, with more than $16 million directed to COVID-19 related causes.


Customers/ Developers: They analyzed customer contracts to confirm that our priorities align with their requirements. They worked
directly with customers to report our supply chain status related to conflict minerals. Also partnered with customers to collaborate
and present on regulatory and conflict minerals topics and supported customer quarterly business review scorecard requests.


Employees: We sent several communications related to COVID-19 around employee safety, working from home, and mental health,
and built a website with information to help employees navigate work during the pandemic. We reached 47,000 candidates from
underrepresented communities in technology at university and professional recruiting events

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Any questions for us?
Analysis reported and documented from following public domain
information:-
• https://www.amd.com/en/corporate-responsibility/planet

• https://www.qualcomm.com/company/corporate-responsibility

• https://images.nvidia.com/aem-dam/Solutions/documents/FY2021-NVIDIA-CSR-Social-Res
ponsibility.pdf

• https://www.qualcomm.com/media/documents/files/qualcomm-2020-cdp-water-survey-res
ponses.pdf