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Global Social Venture Competition 2011 - Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley

www.gsvc.org

GSVC's mission is to catalyze new sustainable ventures that address significant social issues, build awareness of the social entrepreneurship field and educate future leaders

Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia) - FT - "Tripped up by globalisation"

August 18, 2011 Jeffrey Sachs, Financial Times.   

..The path to recovery now lies not in a new housing bubble, but in upgraded skills, increased exports and public investments in infrastructure and low-carbon energy. Instead, the US and Europe have veered between dead-end, consumption-oriented stimulus packages and austerity without a vision for investment...

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On Wikipedia

Huffington Post posts

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...

Sir Ronald Cohen (HBS alum): capitalism has its consequences - The Telegraph

Article of The Telegraph, 26 Jun 2010    (Wikipedia Entry of Sir Ronald Cohen)

The man who started the private equity industry 40 years ago, is plotting to harness entrepreneurship to act as an agent for social change.

...has been back to Harvard and a clutch of other top universities to tell the students about the next big thing in the business world – social finance...

"We want to do the same thing for social entrepreneurship. We want to connect the capital markets to the social sector.

"I think it is going to be similarly powerful because the impact of the recent crisis on peoples consciousness has emphasised the importance of dealing with the social consequences of the [capitalist] system."

Sir Ronald is fervent in his belief that this is more than just the latest business fad, but a crunch-point moment for the entire Western market-based system.

"It is not enough to increase the standard of living at the high end. It is right at the same time to worry about those who are left behind," he says.

"I think societies everywhere will come to the conclusion that an important part of the capitalist system is having a powerful social sector to address social issues, because government doesn't have the resources."

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Professor Amrou Awaysheh (IE Business School) in the Financial Times

Article of the Financial Times, July 21, 2011.

Prof Awaysheh’s research focuses on how firms attempt to manage socially responsible practices in their operations and supply chains. He teaches operations management on the MBA programme at the school as well as an elective on corporate social responsibility.

He defines for the Financial Times: operations management, socially responsible practice, supply chain distance, supply chain power, supply chain transparency...

Dean Paul Danos on Tuck joining a new international study group

Article of The Darmouth, July 15, 2011

The Tuck School of Business has joined with four business schools from around the world to create a collaborative aimed at examining current business issues that affect society, such as healthcare, corporate management and sustainable development, according to Tuck dean Paul Danos...

 

Dean Carolyn Woo of the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business is leaving

Article of Bloomberg Businessweek, June 28, 2011.

Carolyn Woo, dean of the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business (Mendoza Undergraduate Business Profile), will leave the school to serve as president and chief executive officer of Catholic Relief Services, effective Jan. 1, 2012. The joint announcement was made Friday. Associate Dean Roger Huang will serve as interim dean until a permanent replacement is found.

The decision to leave comes after “six months of intense and ongoing discernment,” she wrote in an email to colleagues. She continued to write it “is extremely difficult” to leave the university and hoped her colleagues wouldn’t think she had let Mendoza or Notre Dame down.

Catholic Relief Services is the official Catholic international humanitarian agency in the U.S., according to the press release. Woo served on the board of directors from 2004 through 2010. She succeeds Ken Hackett, who is retiring after 18 years as CEO and president...

"It is the Notre Dame lesson that I often speak of to our students: To have eyes, ears and heart that recognize where needs are and the confidence that comes basically from a lifetime of blessings to leave what is comfortable for what we are asked to do. We have also reminded our students that their business education can be used to bring about the greater good. I have spoken the words and now I am given the opportunity and challenge to live them at another level.”

During her 14 years (2011-1997) as dean, the Mendoza school received accolades for its undergraduate business program, which is currently ranked No. 1 by Bloomberg Businessweek. Mendoza’s full-time MBA and executive MBA programs are highly ranked as well.

"Energy for Tomorrow", Readers' Choice Award - TIME, Fortune, Shell - Vote now!

In this year's Energy for Tomorrow competition, graduate students from top business, environmental, public policy and engineering schools from around the globe were invited to discuss energy innovations in the urban environment and how this will affect consumer behaviour.

TIME, FORTUNE and Shell would like to thank all the participants...

Inter-American Partnership for Education - Worldfund.org & Darmouth

Worldfund "Why we are different", (Team (Luanne Zurlo video1, bio2), Directors) using education to fight poverty in Latin America

The Inter-American Partnership for Education (IAPE) is a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment  that aims to transform English language instruction in Mexico's most underserved public schools by training, empowering, and supporting a dedicated network of innovative and dynamic English language educators. IAPE is a partnership of Worldfund and Dartmouth College's Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures and is underwritten by Bécalos and Nextel de México. IAPE receives additional generous support from The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and from participants' home institutions. IAPE's flagship program, the IAPE Teachers' Collaborative, involves over one hundred hours of pedagogical training at Dartmouth College, followed by three years of mentoring and supporting colleagues in Mexico. Our newest program, the IAPE Intensive English Program, is offered in Mexico and involves eighty hours of intensive English instruction and twenty hours of pedagogical training.

InnoCentive - Challenge Driven Innovation

Challenge Browser

About: Facts and Stats + News and Events

e.g.

The Economist-InnoCentive Entrepreneurship Challenge (May 5, 2011: "Yale School Of Management Student Wins Entrepreneurship Competition")

or

POSTED: 5/06/11

InnoCentive and The Economist are teaming up to connect InnoCentive’s talented community, The Economist’s millions of readers and the rest of the world with The Economist conference series entitled the Ideas Economy. Solvers are asked to provide well thought-out concepts for novel and useful metrics or indices that quantify important trends that affect humanity. The winning solution will receive a substantial cash award and be highlighted at the upcoming Economist Ideas Economy: Human Potential conference in September 2011.

AWARD: $10,000 USD  |  DEADLINE: 6/20/11

The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value, Professor Micheal E. Porter - HBR + interview

Full article here

Jan/Feb 2011.

By

Michael E. Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard University. He is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and a six-time McKinsey Award winner.

Mark R. Kramer cofounded FSG, a global social impact consulting firm, with Professor Porter and is its managing director. He is also a senior fellow of the CSR initiative at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

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The Idea in Brief

The concept of shared value—which focuses on the connections between societal and economic progress—has the power to unleash the next wave of global growth.

An increasing number of companies known for their hard-nosed approach to business—such as Google, IBM, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Unilever, and Wal-Mart—have begun to embark on important shared value initiatives. But our understanding of the potential of shared value is just beginning.

There are three key ways that companies can create shared value opportunities:

•    By reconceiving products and markets

•    By redefining productivity in the value chain

•    By enabling local cluster development

Every firm should look at decisions and opportunities through the lens of shared value. This will lead to new approaches that generate greater innovation and growth for companies—and also greater benefits for society.

Harvard M.B.A. Students Stroll the Catwalk for Charity

Article of Dealbook, April 4, NYT, 2011.

...The fashion show was expected to raise more than $5,000 for Dress for Success, a charity that provides work clothing and career training for low-income women...

March 24th - Census Bureau Director to discuss 2010 Census releases

2010.census.gov/2010census

@uscensusbureau

News release - U.S. Census Bureau Newsroom

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves will brief the media on 2010 Census news, releases and products. Groves will discuss quality indicators and the completion of all releases of 2010 Census redistricting data, and he will announce the site of the new national mean center of population. The briefing will include the release of the first two 2010 Census briefs -- population distribution, and race and ethnicity -- and a question-and-answer session...

www.harlemvillageacademies.org

www.harlemvillageacademies.org

education.ted.com

http://education.ted.com

Stanford Social Innovation Review - "Collective Impact"

Collective Impact, Winter 2011

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations. Substantially greater progress could be made in alleviating many of our most serious and complex social problems if nonprofits, governments, businesses, and the public were brought together around a common agenda to create collective impact. Published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011.

...Our research shows that successful collective impact initiatives typically have five conditions that together produce true alignment and lead to powerful results: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support organizations...

Collective Impact conference Stanford, March 23, 2011.

www.the-hub.net

www.the-hub.net  ("Go To Hub...")

We're a social enterprise with the ambition to inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world. The Hub is a global community of people from every profession, background and culture working at 'new frontiers' to tackle the world's most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges.

We believe that there is no absence of good ideas in the world.  The problem is a crisis of access, scale, resources and impact. So it felt vital to create places around the world for accessing space, resources, connections, knowledge, experience and investment...

www.teachforamerica.org

www.teachforamerica.org

O3b - connecting the "other 3 billion" (denied for reasons of geography, political instability and economics)

www.o3bnetworks.com (Wikipedia entry)

Every member of the O3b team is passionate about bringing affordable, state-of-the-art broadband services to the 3 billion people who have been denied them for reasons of geography, political instability and economics.

See "03b’s vision" in the Video Archive

O3b Networks raises total funding of US$1.2 billion, 29 November: 2010

Business Schools With a Social Appeal

Article of the New York Times, January 24, 2011.

Use your MBA to open doors to jobs in the charity sector - The Guardian

Article of The Guardian, 22 January 2011

Many charities now look for the financial and management expertise an MBA can bring.

MIT Global Challenge - problems to solve - launch January 7th

http://globalchallenge.mit.edu/problems

There’s a world of problems needing innovative thinkers to tackle them. The Global Challenge offers a space to define and discuss ways to solve these problems. Student who are ready to tackle any of these problems are encouraged to create a team and collaborate with others to develop their projects. Check back regularly for updates and new problems.