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Big Company, Big Impact: How corporations can fund and foster social impact

Rudmila Rahman, Harvard Business School


Social Intraprenuership in large corporations has led to a type of conscious capitalism that uses the resources and relationships of big companies to develop initiatives in sustainability, impact investing, philanthropy and impact at the bottom of the pyramid in emerging markets. These initiatives are pushed through by executives who have a mandate to generate profit but are also driven by purpose. Who are these people? Lets invite them to talk about how they create change in a big business that is set in its ways. What lessons can we draw from their 'social intraprenuership'? And how can people outside these companies tap into corporate resources to affect change?
BOP, capital, corporate, emerging markets, entrepreneurship, funding, global, new economy
Panel
Intermediate
TBD
Execs from companies such as : -Nike (sustainability) -Starbucks (sustainability, philanthropy) -Unilever (BOP, emerging markets business)
Creating Shared Value, Michael Porter [http://hbr.org/2011/01/the-big-idea-creating-shared-value] Conscious Capitalism [http://www.consciouscapitalism.org/]

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