Social Enterprise

CEO Lloyd Blankfein said the firm pledges $100 million to provide 10,000 underserved women with education and mentoring in business, management and entrepreneurship.

Ray Fisman's monthly column in Slate.com discusses the significance of research findings for social and economic issues.

Joel Klein, David Saltzman and Russell Carson ’67 discuss how business skills can transform urban public education.

More than 400 people attended the annual social enterprise reception, which highlighted the power of cross-sector collaboration.

Columbia Business School’s Social Enterprise Program announced its annual reception honoring Joel I. Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, and David Saltzman, Executive Director of the Robin Hood Foundation, with a conversation moderated by Russell L. Carson, February 5, 2008  at 6:30 pm. 

Making the distinction between isolated philanthropic acts and sustainable practices, the conference’s featured speakers emphasized the need for making corporate social responsibility integral to long-term planning.

Annual Klion Forum discussion. Article by Gillian Core '08.

Unilever group chief executive Patrick Cescau, awarded the Botwinick Prize for Business Ethics, delivered the keynote address on the importance of corporate social responsibility.

Ben Vishnu Mandell '05 traveled to Cape Town to support a small crafts business in South Africa - and in his free time hiked Kilimanjaro and rafted down the Zambezi River.

By Amelia Kahaney, The Record, Columbia University, Vol. 32, No. 14.