The IT company topped Reputation Institute’s Global CSR RepTrak 100 study ahead of The Walt Disney Company, which overtook Google this year to take the second place spot (see tables below).
Microsoft gave more than $900m in cash and software to nonprofits worldwide last year, reduced its carbon emissions by 30 per cent per unit of revenue compared with 2007 and made the company’s biggest ever investment in overall employee compensation, according to its 2012 citizenship report.