Social Enterprise

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NEW YORK—Columbia Business School today announced the creation of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. The new center, made possible through a transformative endowment gift from Sandra and Tony Tamer will help develop a new generation of business leaders that understand how management can contribute to, enhance, and impact society and the environment. Additionally, it will serve as the educational, curricular, research, and strategic hub of all social entrepreneurship activities at Columbia.

The new center will create a cross-disciplinary epicenter of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship activities at Columbia

Columbia Business School announced today that the Social Enterprise Program has become the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. This was made possible by a generous donation by Sandra and Tony Tamer, with the aim of expanding many of the existing social enterprise activities and developing new initiatives to broaden the social entrepreneurship network at Columbia University.

More and more alumni entrepreneurs are launching ventures to serve the greater good.

This story was originally published in Columbia Business. More and more alumni entrepreneurs are launching ventures to serve the greater good.

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