We need to engage businesspeople at the prime of their careers and have them give some time in the social sector.
“Adam Smith wrote that there are three things that could derail capitalism,” said Professor Horton one recent Friday morning.
What is the role of the market in addressing social change? Bruce Usher, adjunct professor of finance and economics, says the market is an effective tool for changing behavior.
Do you think you need to be “rich” before you could afford to go into social entrepreneurship or can a social enterprise also make money?
If I think too much about it, Nigeria scares me. But my nervous tension is dwarfed by the excitement that only a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity can create.
Our Pangea Advisors team spent the summer working with Qualitas of Life, a community-based financial education organization for Hispanic immigrants. The mission was to improve their volunteer network.
The core leaders that I have at many levels in the system are not people who came from the education schools — they’re people who came from the business schools, and from the business sector. That causes me a lot of political heat, but that’s just fine.
What exactly is a social enterprise? And how are we delivering on our bold idea for social change?
We need to apply sensible economics in informing giving decisions, especially in tough financial times.
A Spanish savings bank, Caja Navarra, is pioneering a new way with what it calls civic banking. Nicholas Doimi de Frankopan '09 interviewed its CEO in the recent issue of the Chazen Web Journal.
The idea that an ethical business must simply follow the law and provide the highest returns to their shareholders while doing so is dying a long-overdue death.
How do organizations respond to societal pressures for changes in their corporate social responsibility policies?
Why have organizations shifted from bare-minimum standards of corporate social responsibility to overcompliance?
I recently studied how formal mentoring affects public school teachers in New York City, and found some interesting results.
Geoffrey Heal discusses his new book, in which he considers how a firm's environmental and social performance affect its competitiveness and financial performance.
Business leaders are the ones best suited to manage the risk of climate change that we find ourselves subject to as a global community.
Over the past decade, leading African business schools have adopted the traditional case method. But how much can they really learn from these cases when they are about American companies that routinely leave Africa out of their operating plans altogether?
In the early days of microfinance, a significant gender bias emerged among borrowers and persists today: approximately seven out of 10 borrowers are women. The jury is still out, but I think this is one case in which we should embrace gender bias.
How do you create a company where environmental goals aren’t peripheral, but central to the business plan?
Does teacher certification affect student performance?
Public Offering spoke with Lulu Wang '83 about her experience with the Nonprofit Board Leadership Program and what it takes to be a successful board member.
What do MBAs need to know about education reform? This year, the Social Enterprise Club met with different leaders to learn how management and school reform can work together.
We need financial instruments and markets that are designed specifically for social enterprise.
As the nonprofit sector grows, there comes a greater need for leadership over bigger and more complicated enterprises. How can we change the way we think about and carry out leadership?
Shocked by the size and scope of modern-day slavery, I put aside my corporate aspirations and worked for eight years to find a way to attack the economic forces perpetuating this industry.
In 1983, Professor Ray Horton founded the program that is now the Social Enterprise Program. What has changed in the past 25 years?
Think hard about what the biggest problems out there are to be solved, and survey the charity landscape for organizations that most effectively address your chosen set of needs.
Museum directors are facing increasing pressure to better negotiate nonart subjects such as donations, budgets, construction and attendance.
During the three months we worked in New York and the two weeks we spent in Dhaka, we helped them refine a plan to train young women to install and repair the Solar Home Systems.
Their popularity with low-income buyers may not be the only reason single-serve packages sell so well.
When I think of the challenges that the Red Cross is facing, they are not dissimilar to what I’ve seen at for-profit organizations.
The reason a gender gap persists in some fields, like science, may start in the classroom, says Professor Ray Fisman. What can mentoring learn from that?
Though often painful, competition can serve us collectively if we give it the respect it deserves.
How can we best help the world’s poor access the wealth-magnifying capacity of financial markets?
When will mobile services in emerging markets evolve beyond text message technology? We believe that time is now.
Shanta Devarajan of the World Bank says we must foster macro-economic stability in Africa if we want to solve the problem of poverty. Watch the video interview.
This summer, I started a camp program in Mexico to teach kids how to be entrepreneurial in business, in life and in their academic careers. What did they learn?
Should the U.S. join the Kyoto Protocol, or at least play a positive role in the search for a successor? Or is this too costly, or otherwise “fatally flawed,” as our president has suggested?
A new report from the Aspen Institute shows a significant shift in MBA students attitudes on corporate social responsibility.
Why does the world out there have such a dismal view of the so-called dismal science? We, as economists, have been terrible ambassadors of the profession in two critical ways.
In a Community Forum on October 29, Dean Glenn Hubbard, professors Bill Duggan and Gita Johar, and Eric Tienou '03 of Burkina Faso discussed economic development in Africa. Learn more about the School's partnership with the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania.
While some of the world's leading organizations have made meaningful progress on their environmental impact, there remains a general lack of expertise on the way that business intersects with the environment.
How can the private sector provide solutions to achieve environmentally sustainable outcomes?
During spring break we traveled to Ghana with the mission of developing a marketing strategy that would increase tourism and investment in Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city.
In March, Lukas Bauer ’09 and I worked with the First MicroFinanceBank of Tajikistan to assess the viability of providing commercial loans to small and medium enterprises.
I recently returned from teaching a one-week program in nonprofit management in Saudi Arabia, where foundation leaders want to make philanthropy more strategic. What was the experience like?
As Keynes wrote more than seven decades ago, strengthening credit is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for recovery.
Dr. Craig Barrett, retired Intel CEO and chairman, was awarded the 2009 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics at this year's Social Enterprise Conference. Read about conference highlights.
Imagine if thousands of informal businesses listed in a business directory were accessible to anyone with a mobile phone? What if they were also linked to their regular customers, and through them, thousands of potential new customers?
How should business schools develop leadership skills?
Participating in the Pershing Square Challenge is the type of experience you go to business school for. Where else in the world do you have the opportunity to pitch a stock to a panel of value investing legends?
Professors Ray Fisman and Sudhakar Balachandran share their thoughts on the practice of using peer comparison to set executive compensation packages.
High Line visionaries, architects, developers and city planners gathered for a panel discussion on October 13 about the 75-year-old elevated railroad that reinvigorated West Chelsea.
This was my eighth consecutive year attending the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos. My first year there, I found myself guiding the late Yasser Arafat to the men’s room and having a tête-à-tête with Oprah Winfrey.
The nonprofit sector is always hit particularly hard during recessions. That, Ray Horton says, gives MBAs and today’s nonprofits more to offer each other than ever.
There is no more urgent or important work than providing children from low-income communities the same high quality education that their affluent peers receive.
If we want to find a new supply of great teachers, we need to change methods by which we search. But what should we be looking for?
The three keys to ethical leadership, Immelt told a capacity crowd at Riverside Cathedral, are keeping the company financially safe, having operational excellence and protecting the future.
Professor William Duggan, author of "Strategic Intuition", and Naif Al-Mutawa '03 are speakers at the inaugural TEDxEast event today. Watch live streaming video from the event.
Microlumbia is considering making a loan to a small savings and loan cooperative in Ruhiira, Uganda. How did we evaluate the operation and what did we learn about the local economy?
Paul Tierney, chairman of TechnoServe, an organization that provides technical assistance to entrepreneurs in developing countries, explains what works and what doesn't.
How do you create a sustainable business while incorporating contrasting cultural identities as part of the organization?
With the Green Box, Jennifer Wright '09 (EMBA) and her partners at e.c.o. are changing the way we consume pizza, one box at a time.
What does lingerie have to do with business school? A recent trip to Colombia as a Pangea Advisor with IDC taught me a surprising lesson about entrepreneurship.
The move of business schools to America’s elite universities reflected the assumption that business and management should be based on a common body of knowledge and a sense of higher social purpose.
How municipal governments can use incentive programs to create a shorter commute and improve welfare for all.
From the moment we exited the airport, we knew we’d have to throw all preconceived notions about Lagos out the window.
It’s a striking claim: by giving money away, we make ourselves better off. Can this be true?
Switching aid to the local business sector in order to cultivate a middle class is the only way to eliminate poverty in poor countries, Dean Glenn Hubbard and William Duggan say in their new book.
We urgently need a name for our new IDC initiative. It should capture the uniqueness of the IDC brand and be fitting of an MBA student-run pro bono consulting group.
Networking, perseverance and a willingness to live in relatively less-desirable locations can help you find a job with the prestigious organization. What else do you need?
New financial tools and technologies are poised to change the way microfinance is practiced, says Suresh Sundaresan.
MBA students must learn that to whom much is given, much is expected.
Ray Fisman, director of the School’s Social Enterprise Program, discusses the influence educators can have on values, and the ethical responsibility that role confers — especially at business schools.
How do you create a socially conscious business model? It's a lot like creating a new ice cream flavor, Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield told students. Greenfield spoke with Greyston Bakery CEO Julius Walls, Jr. on leadership in social enterprise.
On February 1st I moved to Hyderabad, India to officially start GreenMango’s operations. That first day, a lot went wrong.
"You need to know when to get out of the way," Craig Newmark told students about his decision to select a CEO for Craigslist. So how does a founder know when? Entrepreneurship professor Brendan Burns shares his insight.
What (if any) is business’s responsibility in humanitarian disasters such as the one we’re witnessing in Zimbabwe?
Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson and New York City planner Dr. Rohit Aggarwala '00 recently spoke to a new alumni group, the Sustainable Business Committee.
Jonah Rockoff examines data from New York City’s public schools to assess whether mentor programs — increasingly used in the private as well as the public sector — reduce employee turnover and improve productivity.
Sidney Taurel '71, chairman of Eli Lilly & Co., spoke about how he would spend $10 billion to solve a world problem. How would you spend it?
When I decided to move to Hyderabad, I knew I would stand out for a variety of reasons. But I didn’t anticipate how being a female entrepreneur would make me an anomaly.
The gap between rich and poor has widened in America over the past few decades. And we’re getting increasingly better evidence that technology is one of the main culprits.
What is the biggest challenge facing social entrepreneurs? Professor Ray Horton says it is scalability. Read more.
Naif al Mutawa '03 was recently honored with the Social Entrepreneur Award in the Middle East from the Schwab Foundation. Public Offering spoke with him about how his comic book company is a social enterprise.
We live in an era where the media-friendly entrepreneur/founder must act on stage under the spotlight. But at what cost?
The cofounders of Microlumbia tell how their experience at Columbia propelled them to start something big — really big.
How better to learn the fundamentals of sustainable business practice than to apply it to orientation?
We asked faculty members to look back at the year and give us their pick for the best idea or book of 2008.
Rebranding initiatives are becoming more common among nonprofits — particularly educational institutions — as they increasingly adopt marketing strategies that previously were used only in the for-profit world.
It’s a sobering message for teachers such as myself: students learn much more than the facts from us.
Current MBA students donated close to $60,000 to the Columbia Outreach Programs (CORPS) Fellowships, helping to sponsor 14 of their peers in summer internships at nonprofit and public-sector organizations around the world. Read more...
Recognizing the value of MBA talent to the public and nonprofit sectors, the class of 2005 pledged its class gift of $502,593 to the School’s Loan Assistance Program. Read more...
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives which at one time helped companies to differentiate themselves are now expected practices, and distinguishing a company through "green initiatives" is a particularly high hurdle. A new case study co-authored by Columbia Professor Bernd Schmitt examines how these familiar challenges are impacting the Yuhan-Kimberly Corporation (Y-K), and what strategies the company is considering in response. Read more...
Professor Linda Green speaks about healthcare and touches upon some of the changes proposed by the current presidential administration. Read more...
More than 50 MBA students spent the summer working with socially engaged organizations in NYC. Here's a recap of some of their work. Read more...
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The Social enterprise field and Program at Columbia Business School examined, by Kimberly Kinchen, Hermes, Summer 2009. Read more...
The Columbia Senior Executive Program (CSEP), the flagship program of Columbia Business School Executive Education, is seeking nonprofit organizations interested in participating in the Positive Impact Project: an in-depth case study that provides a nonprofit organization with expert advice from leading business executives. Read more...
Del Ser hatched the idea for Frogtek while he was a student at Columbia Business School, in partnership with Mark Pedersen ’07. Read more...
David Del Ser '08 developed and launched Frogtek while at Columbia Business School, and was awarded a 2009 Echoing Green Fellowship. Read more...
The Lang Fund Selection Committee Chooses Six Finalists to Present For Potential Seed Capital Read more...
According to UNEP, the award "recognizes individuals and organizations that have exemplified inspiration, vision, innovation, leadership and action for the environment." Read more...
Professor Raymond Horton will teach a two-week course on Corporate Social Responsibility at the Graduate School of Business of Seoul National University in Korea, April 25 to May 10, 2009. Read more...
Prof. Elke Weber, co-founder of Columbia's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED), is shedding light on how humans think about climate change, and how these tendencies might inform potential solutions. Prof. Eric Johnson is also mentioned in this article. Read more...
When it comes to putting on a circus, Paul Binder MBA '67 runs a ring around the competition. Read more...
Natalie Wieder '10, Amanda Cahn '10 and EMBA Alexi Villedrouin '10 selected as Social Enterprise Conference Chairs. Read more...
Prof. Geoffrey Heal comments on the feasibility of corporate social responsibility during a recession. Read more...
An article profiles RareShare.org, a social networking site co-founded by David Isserman '10 to connect people affected by rare diseases. Read more...
Raymond D. Horton, the Frank R. Lautenberg Professor of Ethics and Corporate Governance at Columbia Business School, is appointed the faculty director of Social Enterprise programs within the Executive Education division. Read more...
The School's strategic partnerships with two leading African universities will focus on building capacity for business and management education, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. Read more...
In a new 30-minute documentary program on public television, William F. Baker, Executive-in-Residence at Columbia Business School and President Emeritus of WNET.ORG, parent company of public media providers THIRTEEN and WLIW21, leads a timely discussion about the future of American corporations and how they are redefining their approach to achieving success. Read more...
The Edmond de Rothschild Foundations Partner with Columbia Business School and Scholars from Cambridge University Read more...
Kenneth Scheffler '09 explores sustainable financial services for the poor in this Bottom Line article. Read more...
The annual social enterprise conference, by Erica Lock '10, Bottom Line Read more...
With the current financial markets turmoil, what are the prospects for MBA students interested in social enterprise? Read more...
Faculty opinion piece on "How To Prevent War And Famine" in Forbes.com Read more...
MBA students report on their social enterprise summer internships Read more...
The Social Enterprise Program at CBS includes offerings that help prepare mid-career executives for effective leadership in the growing nonprofit sector, Professor Ray Horton notes. Read more...
Professor Geoffrey Heal says that as we use oil faster than we discover it, prices will climb steadily, forcing changes in the way we live and do business. Read more...
CBS students help bridge the gap between successful African entrepreneurs and capital investment in Professor Murray Low's Master Class. Read more...
On Thursday, June 5, Professor Geoffrey Heal will speak about his new book, When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line, at an Alumni Club of Switzerland event. Read more...
Rakesh Khurana, professor and author, speaks about the past and present of business schools. Read more...
An evening featuring the remarks of Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Russell Carson '67, cofounder of private investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, raised more than $3 million for the School's programs and initiatives. Read more...
The Outrageous Business Plan Competition is highlighted as part of CBS’s innovative approach to teaching entrepreneurship. Read more...
Out of a record field of 245 teams from 23 countries, a student team from CBS won the $25,000 grand prize at this year’s Global Social Venture Competition. Read more...
Columbia University team, consisting of four MBA students, takes first place in Global Social Venture Competition. Read more...
The Class of 2008 broke former participation records with a 95 percent participation rate in student contributions to the annual class gift. Read more...
CBS student Melissa D’Agostino was featured in a panel discussion hosted by Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum and moderated by President Lee C. Bollinger the evening of April 16. Read more...
RecycleBank, co-founded by Ron Gonen ’04, is greening neighborhoods by creating an economic incentive for recycling. “Recycling is something you can do today that has a significant environmental impact on the way you live,” says Gonen. Read more...
Professor Ray Horton advises those wishing to transition from for-profit into not-for-profit work to start by looking within their industry. “If you work for a private educational institution, you could go to a public charter school,“ he suggests. Read more...
Patrick Cescau, group chief executive of Unilever plc and Unilever N.V. and recipient of the 2007 Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics, addressed how businesses can drive positive social change at the 2007 Social Enterprise Conference. Read more...
Professor Bruce Usher, CEO of EcoSecurities Group plc - the world's leading climate change advisory firm, discusses his entry into the sustainability arena after spending several years working in finance on Wall Street. Read more...
Geoffrey Heal, the Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, has achieved prominence for his research in topics of sustainability and the environment. The following is a look at When Principles Pay, his new book, published under the Columbia Business School Publishing imprint. Read more...
The first of two articles written by Knight Bagehot fellows who covered 2007 the Social Enterprise Conference. This article discusses the Cradle to Cradle doctrine - the consideration of the life cycle of a product at the design stage along with possible environmental and social impacts. Read more...
Written by Paul Glader, Knight Bagehot Fellow 2007-2008, this article recaps a panel of experts discussing energy policy and for profit energy solutions in emerging economies. Read more...
Read about the experiences had by three of the 2007 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows. Read more...
Andrea Wenner'05, founder and executive director of Out2Play, featured in Columbia Magazine, by Cristina Najarro CC'10. Read more...
Should the U.S. join the Kyoto Protocol, or at least play a positive role in the search for a successor? Or is this too costly, or otherwise fatally flawed as our President has suggested? Professor Geoffrey Heal offers expert analysis. Read more...
Three SEP students traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil during Winter break, to work on a pro bono consulting project. Read more...
During an Executive Education program designed for curators aspiring to become museum directors, participants gained insight into how others perceive them, an important component of leadership, says Professor Ray Horton. Read more...
CEO Lloyd Blankfein said the firm pledges $100 million to provide 10,000 underserved women with education and mentoring in business, management and entrepreneurship. Read more...
“Recent vivid and memorable media coverage of climate change impacts around the world and domestically have brought global warming onto the radar screen of the residents of New York, elevating it to a risk worth worrying about,” said Elke U. Weber, a psychologist and professor of international business who is co-director of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia. Read more...
When Cory Booker assumed the mayoral seat of the city of Newark in New Jersey, he did not anticipate patrolling the streets with police officers at night as part of the job. But he soon learned that redefining how people perceived one of the most controversial cities in America required the same work ethic that made him an all-star college football player: an eagerness to get right in the action and never sit on the bench. Read more...
Joel Klein, David Saltzman and Russell Carson ’67 discuss how business skills can transform urban public education. Read more...
More than 400 people attended the annual social enterprise reception, which highlighted the power of cross-sector collaboration. Read more...
Annual reception focuses on leaders in education. Read more...
Making the distinction between isolated philanthropic acts and sustainable practices, the conference’s featured speakers emphasized the need for making corporate social responsibility integral to long-term planning. Read more...
Annual Klion Forum discussion. Article by Gillian Core '08. Read more...
Nearly 600 attendees from organizations as diverse as the Council on Foreign Relations, Teach for America, the Wharton School and IBM convened at the School for the 2007 Social Enterprise Conference. Read more...
A two-week Columbia Business School Executive Education program aims to train the next generation of museum directors. Read more...
A reception on October 18 honored 20 newly appointed endowed professors - the highest faculty honor at the School. Read more...
Dramatically increasing participation, the 2007 Social Enterprise Conference with the theme of "Creating Value", nearly doubled last year's ticket sales. Read more...
Unilever group chief executive Patrick Cescau, awarded the Botwinick Prize for Business Ethics, delivered the keynote address on the importance of corporate social responsibility. Read more...
Catherine Billon '89 is launching an eco-friendly social networking site that will make living green easier than ever. Read more...
Ben Vishnu Mandell '05 traveled to Cape Town to support a small crafts business in South Africa - and in his free time hiked Kilimanjaro and rafted down the Zambezi River. Read more...
By Amelia Kahaney, The Record, Columbia University, Vol. 32, No. 14. Read more...
Three Korean alumni help export the School's Social Enterprise Program. Read more...
Life is too short for just one career. After more than a decade in the film industry producing award-winning indie movies like "The Ballad of Jack and Rose", Melissa Marr joined the nonprofit sector. Read more...
Thanks to a generous gift from Russ Carson '67 and the Carson Family Charitable Trust, the School will collaborate with nationally acclaimed education nonprofit Harlem Children's Zone. Read more...
Thanks to a generous gift from Russ Carson ’67 and the Carson Family Charitable Trust, the School will collaborate with nationally acclaimed education nonprofit Harlem Children’s Zone. Read more...
Article by By Katie Leonberger '08, cofounder of Microlumbia, the student-run microfinance investment fund. Read more...
Columbia Business School's International Development Club members make a difference abroad. Article by Maren Winnick '08, for the Bottom Line, April 18, 2007 Read more...
By Ryan Petersen '08, Article for the Bottom Line, April 18, 2007 Read more...
Ethanol, "Sim, por favor." Emissions, "Nao, obrigado." Article by Emi Kubota '08, For the Bottom Line, April 4, 2007 Read more...
Ben Thomases '03, New York City's first food policy coordinator, talks about fighting poverty and the versatility of the MBA Read more...
by Olga Khodosh '07 and Madlen Massarlian '08, Bottom Line. Read more...
Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of Harlem Children's Zone, speaks at the Social Enterprise Program's annual reception. Read more...
by Brian Lavery '08, Bottom Line. Read more...
As America embarks on resolving today's most pressing social and environmental problems, Columbia Business School has been ahead of the game by joining a social community that brings together field experts and student entrepreneurs across social realms for opportunities to showcase concepts, network, and compete for cash prizes. Read more...
By Cai Steger '08. Read more...
Professor Ray Fisman, Research Director of the Social Enterprise Program, receives Rising Star Award from the Aspen Institute. Read more...
Jim Sinegal, President and CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation, received the Benjamin Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics and was the keynote speaker at the Annual Social Enterprise Conference. Read more...
Professor Ray Fisman receives of the Rising Star Award. Read more...
Students joined faculty and staff at the Annual Social Enterprise Retreat hosted by Professor Horton. Read more...
by Peter Wolfgang '08, Bottom Line. Read more...
Professor Heal is interviewed by Peter Wolfgang '08, Bernstein Student Board member. Read more...
Christian Lee ’07 discusses his Summer Fellowship in Afganistan. By by David Rosensweig ’07, Bottom Line. Read more...
Greg Zumas ’07 is interviewed by Melanie Santos ’08 for the Bottom Line. Read more...
by Caroline Andrews '07, Bottom Line. Read more...
A company cofounded by Jordan Tongalson ’06 won first place at the 2006 Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC), the first competition in the world to reward business plans that demonstrate both financial and social returns. Read more...
Students visit pioneers in the practice of corporate social responsibility. By Beth Robinowitz '07, Bottom Line. Read more...
As a research area, social enterprise remains an under-studied area. Read more...
Jonathan Greenblatt of Ethos Water, and judge for the Global Social Venture Competition, blogs on his experience. Read more...
Symposium explores "Meeting Tomorrow's Energy Needs: Opportunities and Challenges in the Renewable Energy Sector". Read more...
Policy experts, business leaders and students came together at the School on March 24 for “Meeting Tomorrow’s Energy Needs: Opportunities and Challenges in the Renewable Energy Sector.” Read more...
This summer will mark the 15th year of the CORPS Fellowship Program and the third year of the Social Venture Internship Fund. Read more...
Message from the Director, Professor Ray Horton. Read more...
During winter break a dozen MBA students embarked on an ecotourism study tour to Ecuador. Read more...
The latest in the new set of Social Enterprise courses, Board and Executive Management of Nonprofits, was introduced in the fall term. Read more...
Suresh Sundaresan, the Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation Professor of Financial Institutions, conducts research in concert with the Centre for Microfinance Research... Read more...
After graduation, Kim Davis '02 focused her job search on brand management for a social mission company. Read more...
Over winter break first-year MBA students work on a pro bono consulting project with NESsT. Read more...
Students, alumni, faculty members and invited guests gathered at Christie's auction house on February 6. Read more...
Students visit Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, a nonprofit sustainable farm and education center 30 miles north of New York City. By Laura Haverland '06, Bottom Line. Read more...
Sandy Eapen '07 receives feedback from student judges and entrants. Read more...
MBA students serve as pro bono consultants in Rwanda. By Tricia Morente '07, Bottom Line. Read more...
Students witness the principles of an innovative social enterprise in action. By Linda Chung '07, Bottom Line. Read more...
Students, alumni and faculty members gathered at Christie’s auction house on February 6 for the Social Enterprise Program’s annual reception. Read more...
Turning Trash into Cash: profile by the Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship. Read more...
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MBA students work in conjunction with Mayor Bloomberg's New York City Leadership Academy. Read more...
Students visit international development and emerging markets companies and organizations. By Maury Stern '06, Bottom Line. Read more...
Matias Marcote '07 explores new initiatives to link conservation objectives with local economic development. Read more...
Prominent business and nonprofit leaders discuss the applicability of business resources and skills to this area. By Asmau Ahmed '06, Casey Albert '06 and Wambui Chege, The Bottom Line. Read more...
“Remember right is right - even if the people we are working for aren't doing it, these values have to be integrated,” said former Vice President Al Gore at the annual Net Impact Conference. By Stephanie Sewell King '05, Bottom Line. Read more...
Elizabeth Querbes '94 leverages Baton Rouge-based nonprofit to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. Read more...
Keynote speaker Joan Bavaria of Trillium Asset Management received the 2005 Benjamin Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics. By Stephanie Sewell King '06 and Greg Zumas '07, Bottom Line Read more...
By Andrea Turner '07, Eugene Lin '07 and Yvonne Lu '07. Read more...
Summer internship profile, by Beth Robinowitz '07, Bottom Line. Read more...
Summer internship profile, by Maury Stern '06, Bottom Line. Read more...
Andrea Wenner '05 starts nonprofit to address the lack of playground facilities at New York City's elementary schools. Read more...
Jeffrey Sturchio, Merck vice president of external affairs and human health in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, discusses a partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the government of Botswana. Read more...
Venture's strategy to minimize patient non-compliance impresses judges with its potential for financial sustainability and social impact. By Bethany Hale '06 and Mollie Kinnamon at the Lang Center. Read more...
Columbia Business School’s Institute for Not-for-Profit Management’s (INM) 8th Annual Middle Management Program for Youth Service Organizations will begin April 21, 2005. Read more...
Working for Agora Partnerships, students conduct consulting sessions with some of Central America's budding entrepreneurs. By Jaya Balasubramaniam '06 and Michelle Fertig '06, Bottom Line. Read more...
Heads of some of New York's and New Jersey's top nonprofits discuss the challenges of being an Executive Director. By Lindsay Kruse '06. Read more...
Nearly 1,400 MBA students and professionals from around the world attended the 12th Annual Net Impact Conference. Read more...
Professor Ray Horton moderated a panel of experts, representing stakeholders from institutional investors to unionized employees. The participants considered proposals, problems, reforms and solutions for moving past the scandals that continue to beset corporate America. Read more...
Africa attracts less than one percent of international private investment but many maintain that it offers tremendous opportunities. Experts gathered to discuss venture capital, beekeeping and innovative strategies for tapping the continent's potential. Read more...
A recent UN study found that media coverage of corporate social responsibility has increased along with the public's interest. However telling the story poses a number of challenges for both companies and the media. Read more...
After more than a quarter-century of growth averaging nine percent annually, the Chinese economy faces a host of new challenges. Can it keep up with the pace? Legal and financial experts weigh in. Read more...
The official kick-off for the 2005 class gift campaign was held at Low Library on March 29. This year's graduating class voted to support a loan assistance program for students who take positions in the public and nonprofit sectors. Read more...
Sheila and Bill Lambert '72 hosted the annual reception and presented the annual Lambert Family Award for Teaching Excellence in Social Enterprise. Read more...
A CORPS fellowship enabled Ben Powell '05 to work with Ashoka, a global nonprofit that support entrepreneurs who advance social change via scalable and systemic approaches. Read more...
A team of students work on a project for the Bank of Africa in Madagascar, initiated by the United Nations Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development. Read more...
"Adam Smith's invisible hand often seems invisible because it’s not actually there" said Professor Joseph Stiglitz in his keynote address to the annual Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) conference. Read more...
Chris Flynn '04 is applying her MBA to community development and affordable housing with the Housing Development Corporation in New York City. Read more...
Lab course participants work with the New York City Leadership Academy, a nonprofit organization established by the business community and the New York City Department of Education. Read more...
Students traveled to Paris and Brussels over spring break to learn about corporate social responsibility and governance and trends in socially responsible investing. Read more...
Mentor day kickoff for the annual Global Social Venture Competition. Read more...
Professor Geoffrey Heal leads panel discussion on "Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line." Read more...
"Corporate social responsibility is not just giving money — it's trying to find better strategic operating methods," said Starbucks President and CEO Orin Smith at the Net Impact conference, which drew almost 1,400 participants. Read more...
International Development career meetings. By Saidja Drentje '06 Read more...
by Jessica Stannard-Friel, onPhilanthropy.com, Changing Our World. Read more...
Discussion led by Professor Ray Fisman Read more...
Introduction by the Faculty Director of the Program, with features on student initiatives. Read more...
By Amanda Foley '05, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Lindsay Kruse '06 and Olivia Ralston '06. Read more...
By Lindsay Kruse '06, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Saidja Drentje '06, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Bob Bowne '05, Energy Club, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Min J. Kim '06, Botttom Line. Read more...
Real estate and community development, Bottom Line. Read more...
Conference update by Amanda Foley '06. Read more...
Have you ever wondered what happens on the board of a nonprofit or how you get involved? Read more...
By Zeina Talje '05, Bottom Line. Read more...
At fall orientation, Professor Geoffrey Heal and corporate leaders from the pharmaceutical and paper industries explored the tradeoffs between profitability and social responsibility Read more...
By Madeleine Tregidga '05, the Bottom Line. Read more...
Interview of Malik Ashiru '05, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Jeff Koehler '05, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Erik Svanholm '05, Bottom Line. Read more...
Six alumni who left the private sector for government to make a difference. Read more...
Should corporations worry about their social impact? Or should they just go for profits and trust that everything else will fall into place? By Professor Geoffry Heal, Hermes. Read more...
Columbia Business School's Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) Program, Investors' Circle, and the Social Venture Network have partnered to conduct the first national survey of for-profit social ventures, which are defined as businesses that seek to create positive social and environmental impact through financially successful businesses. Read more...
A report released at the United Nations Global Compact's Leaders Summit on June 24, 2004, details recommendations by the financial industry to better integrate environmental, social and governance issues into investment analysis, asset management and securities brokerage. Read more...
Susan McDade explains the role of energy for sustainable development in emerging markets. Read more...
Winners include Ron Gonen '04 for RecycleBank. Read more...
Columbia graduates and community service with Project Sunshine. Read more...
By Chris Flynn '04 and Frank Flynn, Bottom Line. Read more...
Net Impact, the umbrella organization for social enterprise clubs at business schools around the world, has chosen Columbia Business School to host its 12th annual conference in November 2004. Read more...
The winners of the Global Social Venture Competition were announced at London Business School at the final round on April 15?16. Columbia Business School has been a partner in this competition since 2001. Read more...
Noting that membership in the Social Enterprise Club has climbed to a record high of 245 students, club president Rebecca Thomas '04 reflects on the highlights of the past year. Read more...
"The Social Enterprise Program works collaboratively with students to support experiential learning opportunities aimed at aligning personal values and professional goals to create social benefits," says Ray Horton, Director of the Social Enterprise Program. Read more...
Last fall's Social Enterprise Conference featured panels on venture philanthropy, international development and economic empowerment in Harlem, as well as a keynote address by Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg. Read more...
Business in Society, a new course taught by Professor Geoffrey Heal, explores conflicts that can arise between maximizing profits and doing what is good for stakeholders and society. Read more...
A CORPS fellowship enabled Kathleen Gunn '04 to spend the summer between her first and second years at Columbia helping the Robin Hood Foundation to promote child literacy. Read more...
Laura Goodman works at Reading Is Fundamental, the nation's oldest and largest children's literacy organization. Read more...
Many social enterprise stories have been featured in the media recently. Read more...
The Social Enterprise Program held its annual reception on February 3, 2004. Read more...
Social Enterprise students launch a new networking and mentoring initiative for alumni and students. Read more...
By Ben Powell '05, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Gautam Nivarthy '04 Read more...
Architect William McDonough describes his vision of a world without waste. By Diana Katz, Winter 2003, Hermes. Read more...
By Stephanie Sewell '05, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Carol Yang '05 and Ben Powell '05, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Janera Soerel '04, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Jessica Banks '04, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Diana Yousef '03 and Carol Yang '05. Read more...
By Zev Greenfield '05, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Gautam Nivarthy '04 and Elizabeth Bury '04, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Gautam Nivarthy '04, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Josh Klenoff '03, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Tom Karlo '04 and Janera Soerel '04, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Jamie Kern '04, Bottom Line. Read more...
Report on the Double Bottom Line Private Equity Landscape. Read more...
Students and businessmen gathered at Columbia Business School to compete in the annual National Social Venture Competition. Read more...
Course consulting projects with Seedco's Lower Manhattan Initiative (LMI) program. By Diana Katz, Hermes. Read more...
By Kivanc Onan '04, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Ben Kornfeind '04, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Rani Deshpande '03, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Adam Lenter '04 and Melvaleen Berry '04, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Adam Lenter '04, Bottom Line. Read more...
The management that makes for flawless performances and star-studded seasons at the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, featuring Paul Guenther '64, Paul Montrone, PhD '66, Lillian Silver '88, David Gockley '72, Amy Nederlander-Case '92, Susan Jarrell '98, as well as alumni board members of arts organizations Read more...
Earth Institute conference, Professor Geoffrey Heal speaks on "Conservation of Biological Resources". Read more...
Columbia University's role in community development, including the Small Business Consulting Program. Read more...
By Shilpi Chandra '03, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Deb Arnold '03, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Sarah Scrogin '03, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Rebecca Stich '03, Bottom Line. Read more...
In some quarters the tech revolution lives on. By Rani Deshpande '03, Bottom Line. Read more...
Faculty Members Share Insights into Today's Public Policy Issues. By Diana Katz, Hermes, Spring 2002. Read more...
By Ismael De La Garza '03, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Joshua Hubbert '02, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Sherri Scribner '02, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Keith Timko '02, Bottom Line. Read more...
By Tobi Wittich '02, Bottom Line. Read more...
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