THE B·A·W·B NEWSLETTER * NOVEMBER 2005 NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
Read about the latest news and information about our Center and the many ways in which business is intersecting with and benefiting society.
UPCOMING EVENTS
2005-2006 Colloquium Series
Each year The Center for B•A•W•B invites several prominent thought leaders to provoke, inform and raise questions about topics relevant to businesses in society. The 2005-2006 Colloquium Series will provide a forum for inquiry and dialogue among people of different industry sectors and areas of the world regarding sustainable enterprise, social entrepreneurship, cooperation and global action.
Capitalism at the crossroads and fortune at the bottom of the pyramid will be the topics of the first 2005-2006 B•A•W•B Colloquium Series as Stuart Hart, the S.C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management and author of Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World’s Most Difficult Problems, speaks on November 8th at 4:30 p.m. in the Dively Dining Room of Case Weatherhead’s George S. Dively Building.
Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens
On November 11-12, 2005, Weatherhead will host a workshop on the potential contribution and role of a positive lens to the design of information and organizations. The workshop aims to advance a scholarship of design and positive change in human organizations that involves social and technical elements, and fosters betterment in human organizations and communities. The workshop will bring together a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars from industry and academia who are interested in exploring "positive" approaches, such as Appreciative Inquiry, for designing organizations, information, technologies, or social action. For further information, visit http://weatherhead.cwru.edu/design/
