Thursday April 23rd, 2009 from 12:00pm to 1:30pm in Carlson room 1-147 Speaker: Chad A. Trewick, Senior Director of Coffee & Tea, Caribou Coffee, Inc. Topic: Purchasing for and maintaining a socially and environmentally responsible supply chain
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP through UMCal. Contact Kari Niedfeldt-Thomas with questions or to RSVP if UMCal is not accessible.
Thursday May 7th, 2009 from 12:00pm to 1:30pm in Carlson room TBD
Speaker: Cheri Chastain, Sustainability Coordinator, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Topic: Sierra Nevada's innovations in sustainable business practices and their impact on the bottom line
More Information: Since its inception over 30 years ago, Sierra Nevada has pioneered many innovations to conserve resources and focus on sustainable business practices in its supply chain and operations. One of its most aggressive goals, for all business operations to run off of 100% renewable energy sources, is well on its way to being achieved.
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP through UMCal. Contact Kari Niedfeldt-Thomas with questions or to RSVP if UMCal is not accessible.
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.
