Social Enterprise Conference at Harvard Uses Neuron Global

CAMBRIDGE – Neuron Global was contracted by the Harvard Business School (HBS) in celebrating its centennial year in 2008. HBS is holding a yearlong series of special events and conferences designed to frame management education and research in the future. Neuron Global will provide post-event “Insight Reports,” executive summaries that will consolidate the key knowledge, trends, and concepts discussed during the HBS Centennial events.

Neuron Global exists to solve the pressing problem of high-value knowledge loss and information overload during events and conferences. Its “Conference Insight Report” allows attendees at a conference or meeting—and non-attendees, too, of course—to learn and remember more, and access knowledge from sessions they could not attend.

“Throughout 2008 we will showcase Harvard Business School’s history of innovative research and teaching and the extraordinary impact of our alumni around the world,” said Jay Light, HBS Dean. “Our Centennial also will be an opportunity to ask the important questions that will frame our work over the next century. What is the future of business and business education in a global economy? How can we help shape it?”

The second in its series of special events, held on the HBS campus in March 2008, was a conference on “The Future of Social Enterprise,” to examine major, cross-cutting themes surrounding the future of social enterprise, i.e., non-profits. The embrace of non-profit enterprise and management as a part of business school education has been very recent—15 years ago the school had only a Non-Profit Club with six members—but HBS has been a pioneer in recognizing and including non-profits in its curriculum. Today 500 of its second year students take a social enterprise elective and the Social Enterprise Club is, with 350 members, larger than the investment club at present. HBS alumni head some of the most successful and innovative non-profit enterprises in the US... and the world.

The panelists for the conference included Gerald Chertavian, an HBS alumnus and head of Year Up, an organization helping hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged young Americans; Jeff Bradach, co-founder of the Bridgespan group, the largest non-profit consultant to non-profit organizations; Nancy Lindborg, president of Mercy Corps, an international development organization in 40 countries; and Linda Rottenberg, head of Endeavor, which recognizes and supports entrepreneurs in 11 countries. The keynote speaker was none other than Melinda Gates, co-founder and co-chair with her husband of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest philanthropic fund in the world.

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