Social Enterprise News

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.

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.

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

This was originally published in Columbia Business. As part of our Launch series, Linda Chase-Jenkins ’93 talks about her startup, Neurotect, which is poised to transform the sports safety market — and save millions of lives.

This article was originally published in Columbia Business. As part of our new At the Center Q&A series, Uzayr Jeenah ’14 chats with Mary Jane McQuillen ’07 of ClearBridge Investments about the real returns of investing in a sustainable future.Introduction by Dan Rosen; Photography by Don Hamerman  

Without an organization, a dream will end as a dream. A Chat with the Organizational Management Guru, Professor Raymond Fisman, Columbia Business School.

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.

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.

Social Enterprise Program student Donnel Baird ’13 was recently featured on PBS Newshour as an “Agent of Change” for his social enterprise, BlocPower. BlocPower is an organization that aims to provide job training and energy-efficient products in underserved New York City neighborhoods. Read the full article.