Social Enterprise

Professor Bruce Kogut recently co-authored an article describing how bringing philanthropic and investment capital together effectively could increase capacity to address pressing social challenges and how savvy financial structuring would be necessary to make this work.

Women should own the stories of their careers, declared Debra Coughlin ’82 during her keynote speech at the 19th Annual Columbia Women in Business (CWIB) Conference.

Daniel Mintzer '13, Morris Cox '13, Donnel Baird '13, and Yaniv Kalish '12 came in second place at the annual Ross Renewable Energy Case Competition.

A new study by Professor Jonah Rockoff and colleagues indicates that good elementary school teachers have a positive effect on students in the long-term.

BusinessWeek highlighted the Nonprofit Board Leadership Program, which pairs MBA students with alumni mentors serving on New York City nonprofit boards.

Columbia University Professor David Weinstein was featured in the Wall Street Journal article "On the TPP and its merits and demerits: Impact on agriculture industry will be severe, but benefits for manufacturing will be vast" on 18 November, 2011.

Leymah Gbowee, who was a keynote speaker at the Oct. 7 Social Enterprise Conference, was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day.

Professor Gerald L. Curtis's lecture on the political, social, and economic situation in Japan following the Tohoku Earthquake featured in the September 21, 2011 edition of Kyodo News

Registration is now open for the 2011 Social Enterprise Conference.

Marin Kaleya '12 spent her summer working at the Acumen Fund as part of the Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship Program.