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Academic Year 2006-2007
August Student Event: PSE Introduction to the Class of 2008 September Speaker: Nora Lustig speaks on "Health and Development: Recommendations from the Mexican Commission on Macro-economics and Health"
Location: Luce Hall, Room 202, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
When: 4:30 p.m., September 21, 2006
Nora Lustig is the Director of the Center for Studies on Globalization and Development Instituto de Estudios Superiores del Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) Mexico. Previously, Dr. Lustig was Senior Adviser on Poverty and Chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank. She co-directed the World Bank’s World Development Report 2000/2001 "Attacking Poverty." She was also a member of the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (WHO) and is president of the Mexican Commission. Dr. Lustig has published extensively in the fields of economic development and determinants of poverty and inequality, focusing on Mexico and other Latin American economies.
Dr. Lustig's lecture is organized by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies Policy Seminar, and co-sponsored by the Program on Nonprofit Organizations and the Development Policy Series of the International Affairs Council at The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
October
Speaker: Social Enterprises in South Asia, A Dialogue with Ashok Khosla
When: Tuesday, October 3, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Where: Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 203Lunch will be served. Seating is limited. RSVP by September 22 to juliana.koo@yale.edu or 432-7811.
Ashok Khosla is chairman and founder of the Development Alternatives Group, a New Delhi-based non-profit organization whose mission is to promote sustainable development through innovative technology, effective institutional systems, and environmental and resource management methods.
From 1976-1982, Dr. Khosla served as director of the International Referral System for Sources of Environmental Information at the United Nations Environment Program in Nairobi. From 1972-1976, Dr. Khosla was the head of the first office of environment in the Indian government, establishing the organizational and functional basis for environmental policy-making in India. In 2002, he received the UN Environment Program's Sasakawa Environment Prize.
Dr. Khosla serves as director or advisor to numerous organizations, including the World Bank and the World Commission on Environment and Development. He received his B.A. from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in experimental physics, where he was instrumental in introducing courses on the environment into the curriculum.
Cosponsored by the South Asian Studies Council (supported by The Stanley T. Woodward lectureship fund and the Rustgi Family Fund) and the Program on Nonprofit Organizations.
Student Event: Net Impact Internship Forum Student Event: Business Planning Mixer
When: Tuesday, October 10, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Where: Room A-74Want to work on starting up a new venture this year? Come make your pitch and find teammates to write a business plan together this year. Yale has many opportunities to support budding entrepreneurs, such as SOM's Entrepreneurial Business Planning elective, YES and Y50K, and the Global Social Venture Competition. But the first step is to find a team. Whether you have an idea or need an idea, this is the event for you. GSVC faculty advisor, Professor Barry Nalebuff, will give remarks on creativity and entrepreneurship. Beer and light refreshments will be served.
RSVP by October 6 with an email that lists: Name, Affiliation, Have idea or Need idea. Send it to juliana.koo@yale.edu.
Cosponsored by the SOM Entrepreneurship Club, the Yale Entrepreneurial Society, and the Global Social Venture Competition. For more information on GSVC, visit http://www.socialvc.net/, and for YES, visit http://www.yes.yale.edu/.
The Global Social Venture Competition is the premier international business plan competition for business ventures with a social mission. YES is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship in the greater Yale community.
Conference: Net Impact 2006 Conference - "Navigating Global Change" - Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University November Student Event: Annual Net Impact McKinsey & Co. Case Competition Conference: The Future of Philanthropy Conference: Stewards of Change 2006 Conference - "Technological Innovation – Creating A New Child Welfare Business Model"
Building on the success of the 2005 Stewards of Change conference, this year's event focuses on information technology, identified by conference participants as a key issue to explore. It is also the conclusion of a year long environmental scan conducted by SOC for Annie E. Casey during 2005/2006.
The conference seeks to address the extraordinary need for better information and technology within
child welfare. Lectures and activities will provide both wide ranging dialogue and an opportunity to
develop a deep understanding of the role that information technology can play in stimulating innovation, productive change and better outcomes in human service organizations.Read more about last year's conference.
Attendance is by invitation only. Email Daniel Stein, SOM '87, at daniel@stewardsofchange.org for more information.
December PONPO Seminar Series - Sam Gejdenson January Acumen Fund Fellowship Program Information Session PONPO Seminar Series - Francesca Cornelli February Global Social Venture Competition Workshop PSE and Millstein Center Speaker
Georg Kell, Executive Director, U.N. Global CompactYale Education Leadership Conference PONPO Seminar Series - Alex Mintz March Global Social Venture Competition Regional Final April PONPO Seminar Series - Jonathan Morduch PONPO Seminar Series - David Lewis