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Columbia Business School would like to invite you to our Social Venture Workshop series!
Social Enterprise News | June 21, 2013
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.
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Donnel Baird Uses Community Power to Generate Green Energy Projects
Social Enterprise News | March 06, 2013
Topics: Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Marketing | Read Article
Justine Zinkin '02 and Thomas Campbell '09 featured in $100M pledge announcement by Henry Kravis '69
Social Enterprise News | October 15, 2010
Article by The Record, Columbia University, October 15, 2010
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Bridging the Gap Between Nonprofits and Traditional Businesses
Social Enterprise News | June 25, 2010
With recent talks in Albany on benefit corporations, the SEP and Grameen Creative Lab are organizing a Social Business Lab.
Topics: Business Economics and Public Policy, Entrepreneurship, Organizations, Social Enterprise | Read Article
MBA Grads Tackle Social Problems
Social Enterprise News | June 15, 2010
Being part of the solution is all the fashion on B-school campuses these days. For some MBA grads, it's more than a dream.
Topics: Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship | Read Article
Summer Fellows lend essential business skills to organizations in NYC
Social Enterprise News | September 23, 2009
More than 50 MBA students spent the summer working with socially engaged organizations in NYC. Here's a recap of some of their work.
Topics: Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, Leadership | Read Article
David del Ser '08 named Echoing Green Fellow
Social Enterprise News | June 16, 2009
David Del Ser '08 developed and launched Frogtek while at Columbia Business School, and was awarded a 2009 Echoing Green Fellowship.
Topics: Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, World Business | Read Article
Multinationals and Microfinance
Social Enterprise News | November 25, 2008
Kenneth Scheffler '09 explores sustainable financial services for the poor in this Bottom Line article.
Topics: Social Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, World Business | Read Article
Social Enterprise Summer Internship Experiences
Social Enterprise News | September 11, 2008
MBA students report on their social enterprise summer internships
Topics: Social Enterprise, Business Economics and Public Policy, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Marketing, Healthcare, Operations, Organizations, Strategy, World Business | Read Article
Team Wins First in Global Social Venture Competition
Social Enterprise News | April 24, 2008
Columbia University team, consisting of four MBA students, takes first place in Global Social Venture Competition.
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise, Strategy, World Business | Read Article
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Kinara Capital
Lending money to entrepreneurs whose endeavors are too large to receive microfinance loans but too small and risky to receive funding from traditional banks.
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Founder and CEO
BlocPower
Hiring unemployed residents of financially underserved communities to install solar and energy-efficient technology for small businesses, nonprofits, and affordable housing.
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Kangu.org
Leveraging crowdfunding technology to reduce preventable maternal and neonatal deaths and disability.
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