• Challenges & Opportunities: Sustainable Product Development and Marketing
• Sustainable Products: Defining the Rules of the Game
• Sustainability: Driving the next wave of innovative products and services.
2009 Net Impact Conference
The 2009 Net Impact Conference will bring together the players behind the sustainable global enterprise movement, including sustainability and corporate responsibility practitioners, social entrepreneurs, and nonprofit leaders. What inspires them to challenge the status quo? What obstacles do they face? And what approaches have led them to success in changing the rules of the game?
Retreat to beautiful Ithaca, New York, with more than 2,000 professionals, MBAs, and other students to explore what it really takes for individuals and organizations to be changemakers, innovators, and problem solvers. Join us November 13 - 14 in Ithaca, NY at The Johnson School at Cornell University to:
• Hear personal perspectives from cutting-edge leaders like Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, and Seth Goldman, President and TeaEO of Honest Tea
• Connect with professionals and students with similar interests at intimately-structured networking events
• Gather best practices from over 350 speakers prepared to answer your difficult questions
The unparalleled energy of the Net Impact Conference will leave you inspired and equipped to make real change in your social or environmental impact career.
Net Impact was originally founded as Students for Responsible Business in 1993. Today, this mission-driven network of over 5,000 leaders helps members broaden their business education, refine their leadership skills, and pursue meaningful professional goals. To strengthen this leadership network locally, the University of Minnesota Carlson School chapter has created ties among MBA students, faculty, mentors, and business leaders in our community. Our leadership advisors include the Heartland Institute, the Center for Ethical Business Cultures, and members of the Carlson School administration and faculty.
Our business advisors also help guide our objectives and provide mentoring and internship opportunities to Carlson MBA students. Through our flagship program, the Legacy Fund, we have a working relationship to Materials Productivity, an investment research consulting firm, Riverbridge Partners, a money management firm based in Minneapolis, and the local venture capital community made up of Carlson MBA alumni.
Goals:
The Carlson chapter of Net Impact has three main goals that will help drive our mission of making ethics and sustainability issues part of mainstream business education and business decisions.
Net Impact will foster dialogue between business students, the larger University of Minnesota community, leadership organizations and businesses. It is through dialogue that we can bring complex issues in our lives onto center stage, learn from each other, be inspired, and be effective change agents in our careers.
Net Impact will provide networking resources for students to connect with Carlson alumns, national organizations, and businesses that share their interests and passions.
Net Impact will act as a resource base for students interested in learning more about topics in ethics, sustainability, and leadership. By expanding education into these topics, Net Impact will help students make business decisions that are both profitable and responsible.
