LIVING
PROGRESS
REPORT
2020 HIGHLIGHTS
“The challenges of 2020 have reinvigorated our commitment to being a force for good, using our technology to advance the way people live and work.”
Antonio Neri, HPE CEO
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We estimate that sustainability-related customer engagements helped drive revenue of
$847M
Our pivot to become an as-a-service company gives our customers a competitive advantage while reducing the environmental impact of IT.
50% of HPE’s portfolio has sustainability and efficiency attributes, representing revenue of $8.2B
CreatinG
Shareholder
Value
Sustainable Innovation with Customers
Together with our customers, HPE is accelerating tech solutions to social and environmental challenges.
Aruba enabled Vancouver Clinic to establish a telemedicine program, from scratch, in less than a week, and expand a virtual call center for frontline employees during the pandemic
HPE’s Memory-Driven Computing Sandbox is delivering faster, more accurate analysis of CGIAR’s data-sets, accelerating their ability to deliver solutions to global food challenges
Supercomputing and computational fluid dynamics are accelerating design work to bring Carnegie Clean Energy closer to a commercially viable wave-energy machine
DRIVING A CIRCULAR AND LOW CARBON ECONOMY
HPE is committed to becoming carbon neutral across our value chain by 2050 or sooner.
A 360-DEGREE VIEW
OF IT EFFICIENCY
78
HPE and Cray supercomputers on the November 2020 Green 500 list
30%
energy cost savings over five years when transitioning to HPE GreenLake
70%
reduction in IT energy use for customer using HPE SimpliVity
$1.9B
spent in research and development, investing in next-generation technologies including advanced silicon design, photonics, exascale, and Memory-Driven Computing
87%
of more than 3 million IT assets taken in by HPE Technology Renewal Centers were refurbished for a second life
INVESTING
IN PEOPLE
We are committed to being unconditionally inclusive to capture the ideas and perspectives that fuel innovation. Inspired by our purpose, we harness our talents, expertise, and technologies to be a force for good.
We tie rewards for our top leaders to representation of female and ethnically-diverse talent.
of people leaders completed inclusive leadership training
32%
women employees, increasing representation at every level including technical and executive roles
83%
Employee
Engagement score
12%
points increase
over three years
Achieved highest employee engagement score on record:
$1.2M
delivered in funding
350M
people’s lives
positively impacted
Supported technology-centered nonprofits through HPE Accelerating Impact initiative
operating responsibly
Launched the company’s first AI Ethics Principles, which provide a framework for our journey to develop responsible products
human rights
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
& ETHICAL BEHAVIOR
public policy
Ranked first on KnowTheChain ICT benchmark for forced labor and second on the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark
Read more about how HPE is advancing the way people live and work in the 2020 HPE Living Progress Report.
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HPE is recognized as a leader
in the following rankings:
human rights
HPE is recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute
54% of Board members identify with one or more diverse groups, among the most diverse in the industry
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
& ETHICAL BEHAVIOR
public policy
Advocating for climate action, calling on governments to align economic recovery efforts with measures to achieve a low-carbon economy
Supporting government responses to COVID-19, providing free supercomputing software and expertise to White House consortium and deploying COVID-19 Test Labs in India
Promoting digital inclusion by donating Aruba connectivity kits, valued at $26M, and deploying STEM tools and resources to students
Dow Jones Sustainability World Index
Nine consecutive years; sector leader in 2019 and 2020 (100th percentile)
Sustainalytics
80/100 score (96th percentile)
CDP Climate A List
Eight consecutive years (98th percentile)
MSCI ESG
AA ranking (81st percentile)
EcoVadis
Platinum level recognition (99th percentile)
FTSE4Good Index Series
Five consecutive years
2025 climate goals
supply chain
products
operations
of our production suppliers
(by spend) enabled to set science-based targets
reduction in absolute emissions from transportation
logistics compared to 2016 levels
reduction in absolute manufacturing-
related GHG emissions in our supply chain compared to 2016 levels
80%
15%
35%
increase in energy performance of product portfolio compared to 2015
300%
total electricity consumption in our
operations sourced from renewables
reduction of operational GHG emissions compared to 2016 levels
50%
55%
98%
human rights
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
& ETHICAL BEHAVIOR
public policy