We're making a lot of changes at Gap Inc., but as our Social Responsibility Report demonstrates, doing business the right way is still extremely important to us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.
It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.
People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take. I think I've adopted that all through my life. Caring and sharing are two major fundamentals of life.
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.
If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us.
I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.
Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibility.
We have an unwavering commitment to our social responsibility program; it's good for business, and we know it's the right thing to do.