This is essentially the question raised by Theo Vermaelen, professor of finance at INSEAD, in a recent post arguing that MBAs should NOT sign the MBA Oath.
The MBA Oath, started at Harvard Business School, aspires to apply to business management a formal oath and code of ethics, similar to the Hippocratic Oath taken by [...]
A delegation of presidents from prestigious Chinese universities and public officials is visiting University of the Pacific this week to learn about higher education trends in the United States. The group is interested in developments in recruiting, fundraising, classroom quality and university collaboration with local and regional organizations.
“Choosing Pacific is a symbol of Pacific’s [...]
While finding work that pays a good salary is still important to business students, finding work that promotes social good is becoming a priority for many of them, too. Recent national surveys by the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education found that 88 percent of business students believe for-profit companies should do more to [...]
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Georgetown University, and the Society for International Development will host a panel on social entrepreneurship as a catalyst for reducing poverty and strengthening economies in the developing world. This discussion, featuring experts from the White House and the Brookings Institution, along with six social entrepreneurs from the [...]
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Last night I had the good fortune of attending a “Summit on Leading in Crisis” at the University of Minnesota facilitated by Bill George. George, former CEO of Medtronic cum Harvard Business School professor, brought together four of the nation’s more admirable leaders and thinkers to provide their stories, reflections and lessons on leading [...]
Exciting news for Saudi Arabian women interested in social entrepreneurship (or any woman for that matter).
The Wellesley Centers for Women in conjunction with the Center for Women’s Leadership at Babson College are partnering with distinguished global organizations Dar Al Hekma College and ICF International to create a US-Saudi Women’s Forum on Social Entrepreneurship; the [...]
Social entrepreneurship on campuses across the US has become much more popular over the past few years. Millenials, who are interested and willing to take action to improve the world around them believe launching a social venture or working for a social venture as the ‘right thing to do.’
Witnessing this trend, last year Ashoka’s [...]
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The Dell Social Innovation Competition is an annual event which seeks out college students worldwide who have an innovative idea to solve a social ill. The 2009 competition winner was announced on May 7th with Gardens for Health International (GHI) led by Emma Clippinger and Emily Morell awarded the coveted $50,000 grand prize. The [...]
In the 13th annual Harvard Business School Business Plan Contest, a record 93 teams entered the competition which began over 4 months ago. The competition has two tracks; the traditional track and the social enterprise track.
The winners were announced on April 27th. The team that won the traditional track was CloudFlare, a web [...]
On April 23, five notable social enterprises received monetary awards totaling $150,000 to bring their ideas to fruition. The competition, called Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation was hosted by Washington University’s Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and YouthBridge Community Foundation.
The five winners, selected from a group of 42 entrants, were:
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Harvard Business School has selected Elizabeth Scharpf to be the inaugural recipient of its Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. “The HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship program is designed to support the efforts of recent HBS graduates who are launching social enterprises – nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid organizations – with a central focus on the creation of social [...]
