Social Enterprise

Faculty opinion piece on "How To Prevent War And Famine" in Forbes.com

MBA students report on their social enterprise summer internships

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.

Rakesh Khurana, professor and author, speaks about the past and present of business schools.

Held the evening of May 5 at the Waldorf-Astoria, Columbia Business School’s 32nd Annual Dinner honored Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke with the award for Distinguished Leadership in Government and Russell Carson ’67, general partner and cofounder of the private investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, with the award for Distinguished Leadership in Business. 

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.

The Class of 2008 broke former participation records with a 95 percent participation rate in student contributions to the annual class gift.

Columbia University team, consisting of four MBA students, takes first place in Global Social Venture Competition.

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.

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.