Social Enterprise

With the ability for women to anonymously rate and describe their exes, flings, or male friends, the new app Lulu is soon to reign the dating app world.

As part of our Big Apple series, Manmeet Kaur '12, executive director and founder of City Health Works, talks about applying lessons learned from community health programs in Africa and India to East Harlem.

These graduates are aiming high — and delivering — on missions like convincing the worlds wealthiest people to donate half of their fortunes to philanthropic causes.

Alumni are proving that life is too short for just one career.

The program will offer a select group of students the opportunity to combine research and practice to design efforts that seek to drive capital toward investments that promote sustainable economic growth.

This article originally appeared on the Columbia University News page: http://news.columbia.edu/research/3241

Columbia Business School would like to invite you to our new Spark Social Venture Workshop series! Spark provides Social Innovators with an opportunity to explore resources, connections and potential solutions to help their social ventures, by tapping the collective knowledge within Columbia University, and the larger entrepreneurial and social impact community in the New York area and beyond. This workshop is open to all who are willing to bring their ideas, experience, and connections to help solve social and environmental challenges that these social innovators aim to address. This event is supported by the Social Enterprise Program, the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center, and the Social Enterprise Club at Columbia Business School.

Elizabeth B. Strickler ’86 and Mark T. Gallogly ’86 have made a generous gift to Columbia Business School to establish the fund in honor of Ms. Strickler’s mother.

A 1949 Columbia Business School graduate and a member School’s Board of Overseers, the senior senator from New Jersey died on June 3 due to complications from viral pneumonia.

Professors Ray Fisman and Bruce Usher,Co-Directors of the Social Enterprise Program (SEP),shed light on some of the challenges social entrepreneurs may face in making organizational decisions.