CENTER FOR BUSINESS
AS AN AGENT OF WORLD BENEFIT

• How can we create business leaders who view their roles as creating not only profit, but also a society that works for all
• What should every business student know when they graduate in order to be an effective leader in the 21st century?
• How do we move from reproducing the status quo of business today toward teaching business models that extend beyond shot-term profit maximization?
• How do we incorporate ideas about alternative forms of wealth into business classes? New conceptions of success? Multiple forms of collaboration?
• How do we effectively teach the concept of business responsibility, including a business's responsibility for a wide range of stakeholders, including their local community, region, and entire supply chains?
• What kinds of case studies, assignments, experiential learning activities, and field experience are needed to prepare students to become socially responsible, and effective business leaders?

Judith Samuelson is founder and Executive Director of the Business and Society Program at The Aspen Institute. Now in its seventh year, the mission of Aspen BSP is to develop business leaders for sustainable global society. The program helps business executives and educators explore complex issues at the intersection of business needs and wider societal concernsÑor "social impact management" -through dialogue, teaching and research.

Ms. Samuelson's work experience spans the business, government and nonprofit sectors. She joined the Ford Foundation in 1989 and served through 1996 as Director of the Office of Program-Related Investments, the home of the Foundation's $150 million social investment fund, targeting domestic and international investments in housing development, micro-enterprise, economic development and nonprofit infrastructure. In 1994 she helped launch the Foundation's Corporate Involvement Initiative, a comprehensive effort to encourage private-nonprofit partnerships and facilitate business opportunities with broad social benefits.

Ellen Kallinowsky joined the United Nations Global Compact Office in June 2002 as head of the Learning Forum. She is responsible for the development of global and local learning approaches to promote and increase knowledge on the Global Compact principles in particular and corporate citizenship in general. She develops programs and partnerships with leading institutions to integrate corporate citizenship into the teaching agenda of academia and business schools.

She became a leading expert for Public Private Partnership through her function as PPP-Regional Coordinator for Africa at GTZ - deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit - a German development agency, focusing on technical assistance and capacity building. Ellen gained extensive development experience as planning officer and project leader for community based programs in the GTZ Health Department.

David Cooperrider is Professor and Chairman of the world inquiry for Business As An Agent of World Benefit, at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

He has served as researcher and consultant to a wide variety of organizations, using the Appreciative Inquiry methodology which he pioneered. He is also the past President of the National Academy of Management's Division of Organization Development, and a co-founder of The Taos Institute. He has lectured and taught at Stanford University, MIT, University of Chicago, Katholieke University in Belgium, Pepperdine University, and others.

Michael Dupee is the Vice President for Corporate Social Responsibility at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Waterbury Vermont.

In his current role, Michael is leading the company's overall Corporate Social Responsibility efforts, including providing strategic direction and focus for the company's social responsibility programs; managing the company's allocation of 5% pre-tax earnings into socially responsible projects; leading the development and publication of GMCR first Corporate Social Responsibility Report; generating increased understanding of and recognition for the company's SR activities, both internally and externally; developing next-generation commercial partnership opportunities with social responsibility as a key competitive differentiator; and broadening the reach and resources of the GMCR Foundation.ÊIn partnership with Rocki- Lee Dewitt, Dean and Professor of Management at the University of Vermont's School of Business Administration, Michael recently co-created and co-taught an MBA level course at the University of Vermont entitled "In Search of Answers: Leading and Managing for Social Responsibility.

Jake Schrum is president of Southwestern University, a leading liberal arts college which holds a core purpose of fostering a liberal arts community whose values and actions encourage contributions toward the well-being of humanity.

President Schrum describes the responsibility of education as "developing bright, moral and courageous leaders for the 21st century." President Schrum has been an administrator at two major research universities and three liberal arts colleges. He is widely recognized as an author and speaker in the field of educational advancement. He is a leading proponent of moral leadership in higher education and recently edited a book entitled "Justice for All." In addition, he has written "Democracy's Last Stand: The Role of the New Urban University."

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