2009 Net Impact Conference will Convene Leaders to Advance Sustainable Global Enterprise
17th annual event to be held at the Johnson School at Cornell University, November 13 – 14, 2009
(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) (San Francisco, CA) – Net Impact, a global network of professionals and students using business to improve the world, will present its 2009 conference in Ithaca, NY, Advancing Sustainable Global Enterprise: Changemakers, Innovators, and Problem Solvers. Hosted by and organized in partnership with the Johnson School at Cornell University, the conference will bring together leaders behind the sustainable global enterprise movement, including sustainability and corporate responsibility practitioners, social entrepreneurs, and nonprofit executives.
More than 2,000 professional and graduate student attendees will have the opportunity to learn from visionary keynote and featured speakers, including:-
Jeffrey Immelt, CEO, GE
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Seth Goldman, President & TeaEO, Honest Tea
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Lisa Lorimer, Founder, Vermont Bread Company
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Jeff Furman, Board of Directors, Ben & Jerry's and Ben & Jerry's Foundation
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Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, Chairman and CEO of ITC Limited
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Kevin McGovern, Chairman, The Water Initiative
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Rebecca Onie, Founder & CEO, Project HEALTH
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Gillian Caldwell, Campaign Director, 1Sky
The annual Net Impact Conference is the world’s largest event of its kind and has established itself as an important forum for student, business, academic, and nonprofit leaders to network and learn from each other. Past speakershave included the CEOs of Starbucks, DuPont, Coca-Cola, and Patagonia; leaders of nonprofit organizations like YouthAIDS, Room to Read, Children’s Defense Fund, Acumen Fund, and Teach For America; as well as civic leaders such as Al Gore. For more information, please visit www.netimpact.org/conference.
About the Johnson School Founded in 1946, the Johnson School is Cornell University's graduate school of management. Consistently ranked as one of the top graduate schools of business, the Johnson School builds upon Cornell's depth and breadth of distinguished research and teaching, and its vast, worldwide network of alumni, faculty, and colleagues. The school's "performance learning" approach offers students defined frameworks and analytical tools, combined with expert feedback to solve real problems in real organizations. Deliberately small and extremely selective, the Johnson School maintains an intense, collaborative community, where students develop teamwork and networking skills that foster innovation and deliver results. Programs include one- and two-year MBA degrees, an Executive MBA and the Cornell-Queen's Executive MBA, which offers interactive videoconferencing sessions across the U.S. and Canada. For more about the Johnson School please visit: www.johnson.cornell.edu. About the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise The Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management frames the world’s social and environmental challenges as unmet market needs that can be addressed most appropriately through business innovation and entrepreneurship. The Center’s research and teaching programs develop novel approaches for private enterprises to achieve financial success by creatively addressing problems, such as climate change, ecosystem degradation, and poverty. http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/sge. CONTACT:
Brenda Kiefer Net Impact 415-495-4230 bkiefer@netimpact.org |
Nicola Pytell Johnson School of Management 607-255-3494 nwp2@cornell.edu |