Institutes & Partnerships
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PARTNERSHIPS OF THE CENTER FOR BUSINESS AS AN AGENT OF WORLD BENEFIT |
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Our partnerships advance the Center's outreach agenda by linking us with the private sector. Partnering with the Aspen Institute has helped extend the Center's growth to a wide range of stakeholders involving them in designing teaching innovations that create a tipping point in management education. An equally exciting partnership with the UN Global Compact allowed us to help design and facilitate the largest gathering of business leaders ever held at the United Nations. iCohere partners with the Center to bring our global
friends and colleagues together in virtual conferences and symposia.
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The Business and Society Program is an independently funded policy program at the Aspen Institute, dedicated to developing leaders for a sustainable global society.
Our Vision Businesses committed to addressing complex global problems - led by executives who possess the skills, values and long-term view required to consider the social impact of business decisions and who employ social innovation as a key element of business strategy.
What We Do We create opportunities for cross-sector dialogue and partner with business executives and educators to explore new pathways to sustainability, with a special focus on the training and development of business leaders.
We work with educators to integrate social impact management into research and teaching. We convene academic and business leaders to explore the interdependence of business and wider society and the role of management education in bringing about change. We invest in innovation in MBA programs and conduct research to understand and track change in business education and student attitudes. Our websites, Center for Business Education, Beyond Grey Pinstripes and CasePlace, are the leading sources of innovative curriculum in top business schools around the world.
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BAWB Brazil started in 2003 as a branch of The Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, USA. Centered in Curatiba, Brazil, BAWB Brazil focuses on social awareness and poverty reduction through inquiry and action. Its members use the world inquiry methodology to engage in action research that inspires, guides, and teaches its members and organizations in Brazil how to better achieve sustainable business practices that positively impact its citizens and the world.
To learn about the history of BAWB Brazil, read "BAWB Brazil - A Historical Report" (downloadable in .pdf format). You may also visit the BAWB Brazil official website at http://www.bawb.org.br (a portuguese language website). Contact Vinicius Gasparetto at bawb@fiepr.org.br for more information.
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iCohere provides software and consulting services for building collaborative online communities. iCohere's new Appreciate Inquiry tools (developed in partnership with David Cooperrider) provide organizations with an engaging and appreciative approach for managing theorganizational change process.
Founded by Pascal Kaplan, former Dean at John F. Kennedy University and Soren Kaplan, former manager of Hewlett-Packard's Business Innovation & Technology Services internal consulting group, iCohere's software and approach provides a new way to involve key stakeholders in communication, collaboration, learning and knowledge-sharing focused on facilitating and implementing positive organizational change.
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Net Impact is a network of more than 13,000 new-generation leaders committed to using the power of business to improve the world. It is also one of the most innovative and influential networks of MBAs, graduate students and young professionals in existence today. Net Impact sees its mission to improve the world by growing and strengthening a network of leaders who use the power of business to make a positive net social, environmental, and economic impact; and its members believe that business can both earn a profit and create positive social change. Through a central office in San Francisco and more than 100 chapters in cities and graduate schools around the globe, Net Impact offers a portfolio of programs that enable members to transform this ideal into measurable results.
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The Global Compact is a framework for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption . As the world's largest, global corporate citizenship initiative, the Global Compact is first and foremost concerned with exhibiting and building the social legitimacy of business and markets.
The Global Compact offers facilitation and engagement through several mechanisms: Policy Dialogues, Learning, Local Networks, and Partnership Projects. The Global Compact is not a regulatory instrument – it does not “ police”, enforce or measure the behavior or actions of companies. Rather, the Global Compact relies on public accountability, transparency and the enlightened self-interest of companies, labour and civil society to initiate and share substantive action in pursuing the principles upon which the Global Compact is based.
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