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Breakout Session 6 and Off-Site Visits
Saturday November 12, 2004 — 4:00 to 5:30pm
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Off-Site Visits and “Concert of Ideas”
with Creative Leaps International
Continuation from Breakout Session 5
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Warren Hall
Room 209 |
Revenue-Generating Ventures for Nonprofits
Kevin McQueen, Partner, Brody Weiser Burns
Diane Browning, Founder and President, Appalachian By Design,
Inc.
Beth Bubis, President and CEO, Social Enterprise Alliance
Chris Council, CEO, SylverBeach Foundation
Melissa Krinzman, Founder, Venture Architects LLC
Revenue-generating ventures for nonprofit organizations are
an exciting and rapidly growing source of funding for nonprofits.
These ventures are designed with social and financial goals in
mind – often creating both a social and financial benefit
for the organization and its mission. From gift shops at museums
to job-creation programs, nonprofit ventures support nonprofits’
missions and provide a stable source of funding. This panel will
provide a general overview on non-profit ventures and
discussion will focus on both the logistics and challenges of
developing a revenuegenerating venture and on the growing debate
surrounding the relative importance of financial and social returns
in such ventures.
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Warren Hall
Room 208
*Advanced |
Assessing Social Impact
Edward P. Henry, Associate Dean for Finance and Administration,
Columbia Business School
Cheryl Dorsey, MD, MPP, President, Echoing Green
Laura Goodman, Sponsorship Manager, KaBOOM!
Peter Kennedy, Managing Partner, Fulcrum Funds
This panel will cover the issue of how social impact is assessed within various
institutions. How is it assessed and communicated differently in these institutions,
ranging from foundation, fund and non-profit? Each organization will discuss how it
assesses social impact and how this ties in with their daily business practice.
Professor Ed Henry will lead the discussion into an analysis of how holistically,
"assessing social impact" is important for the maintenance and upkeep of these
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Uris Hall
Room 142 |
The United Nations Global Compact
Sandra Navalli, Program Manager and Research Associate, Social
Enterprise Program, Columbia Business School
Michael Hougård Pedersen, Sustainability Adviser, Novozymes
Sustainability
Development Center
Georg Kell, Executive Head, United Nations Global Compact
Office
Ursula Wynhoven, Special Assistant to the Executive Head,
United Nations Global Compact Office
Shaping the business agenda of the numerous CSR standards, certifications and
initiatives that have emerged over recent years, the Global Compact (GC) is perhaps
in the best position to influence mainstream business agenda. As the personal
initiative of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the GC enjoys the ability to attract the
attention and participation of the most influential companies all over the developed
and developing world. The GC calls business leaders to incorporate ethical principles
relating to labor, human rights and the environment into their business strategy. In
this session, Georg Kell, the Global Compact Director, will outline the vision that
drove the initiative, and reflect on its potential to influence business thinking and
strategy into the future. |
Warren Hall
Room 311 |
The Envisionary Project: Overcoming Systemic
Barriers to Sustainability
Aaron Bielenberg, Associate, Corporate Section, Baker Botts
LLP
Ari Wallach, Alchemist of Alliances, Transformers
In July 2004, some 50 thought leaders from major corporations
such as Ford Motor Company, BP, Coca Cola, and Nike came together
with members of Transformers to identify systemic barriers to
meeting the sustainability challenge. This event marked the first
step in the Envisionary Project (www.envisionary.org), through
which we are engaging student and professional leaders from across
the globe to envision the sustainable future that we know is possible.
This is your opportunity to participate in the second phase of
the project, during which we will focus on identifying the leverage
points we can push to overcome these barriers and how we, as future
leaders, can work together throughout our careers to make it happen.
Transformers is a cross-disciplinary community of graduate students
and young professionals intent on creating a sustainable planet
through education, celebration, and positive action. We aim to
build high-quality connections between like-minded graduate students,
and urge all Net Impact members with an interest in ecological
and social sustainability to attend this breakout session. Download
Envisionary Project (.doc) here.
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Warren Hall
Room 207
*Advanced |
China: Is the Economic Boom Sustainable?
David Beim, Professor, Columbia Business School
Lawrence Delson, Principal, Delson International, Inc.; Assistant
Professor, New York University
Benjamin Liebman, Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies,
Columbia Law School
Nancy Yao, Vice President, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
China has experienced a dramatic transformation from a tightly controlled economy
to a major player on the world economic stage. In order to sustain its rapid growth,
China has to address pressing currency, banking and macroeconomic reforms. How
far will these changes go, and will they be enough to preserve China's transformation
into an economic power? |
Uris Hall
Room 301 |
Balancing Profit and Social Impact
Gerri Willis, Finance Editor, CNN Business News
Richard Cacciato, Partner, Blue Iceberg LLC
Natasha Deganello, CEO and Co-Founder, Papilia
Charles Hamilton, Partner, SVT Consulting
Joe Hunt, Founding Partner, RelationshipLink Business Advisors
LLC
Survival of the fittest: Can social capitalism prevail in a fiercely competitive
environment? What trade-offs do entrepreneurs encounter when starting and
operating double-bottom-line ventures? For this panel we debate the merits of
divergent approaches to capitalism. |
Warren Hall
Room 310
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Manipulation 101: Pursuing a Values-Based
Agenda When Logic Doesn't Work
Stever Robbins, Professional Speaker, Facilitator, Executive
Coach
We are at the Net Impact conference because we believe passionately that business
can be a positive force in the world. But how do you pursue a good cause when the
Forces of Evil do not even pay lip service to rationality? Join Stever Robbins for a
heavy-hitting interactive workshop on persuasion, influence, and how to win people
to your cause. Bringing together techniques from leadership, psychology, and
business, you will walk away with immediately usable skills:
• Detecting people's "hot buttons" and pushing them to boost or diminish
buy-in
• Using social psychology to get people to commit more and more over time
• Bypassing logic by building beliefs for people directly
• Framing the debate to change others' interpretation and actions around
important issues (so whatever happens, you win)
Come prepared with your ideological issues, strongly held beliefs, and deep
convictions. We will address them head-on, and develop tactics for helping you
examine them, package them, and bring them to the world in the most persuasive,
effective way possible. |
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