In February 2006 The World Inquiry into Business as an Agent of World Benefit and Net Impact, a leading international organization that unites over 13,000 MBA students and young professionals, created a contest to find the best stories of business-in-society innovations. Titled the Global Discovery Contest: U.N. Millennium Development Goals as Business Opportunity, the competition invited Net Impact members to shine the spotlight on innovative projects, products, processes, and tools that allow business to successfully address the most grinding problems of the new millennium while building a stronger bottom line.
We are pleased to announce that the story on Advanced Patient Advocacy, submitted by Catherine Sheehy, has been selected as the winner of the Net Impact-BAWB Global Discovery Contest.
Catherine Sheehy is a new co-chair of DC Net Impact, where she is eager to continue to promote sustainable business and public sector ventures that enrich people's lives. She will graduate from the MBA program at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in May 2006, after which she will join Accenture's federal government consulting practice. Before returning to school, she worked for several years at the Investor Responsibility Research Center providing data to the socially responsible investing industry, and she worked briefly with the Human Rights Campaign tracking lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender-friendly workplace policies. Catherine has a BA from the University of Notre Dame.
We believe that the story reflects the highest potential of business to act as an agent of greater good in the world, and look forward to featuring this story in BAWB publications and beyond.
