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NIB Book Club

Alexis Ditkowsky — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:50:25 +0000

Due to many people’s scheduling conflicts, we are taking a different approach to the book group going forward — we hope this will make it easier to avoid scheduling conflicts for everyone!

If you would like to join the group, email Alexis Vanderhye: alexis@netimpactboston.org.

This way, we can communicate about upcoming book group ideas, make sure the date and schedule work for everyone, and get to know each other. Our book group is fun! We meet over drinks and food and talk about our book and everything else under the sun relating to social responsibility….

Thank you, and see you at the next book group!

Oct. 3: More Than Money: Questions Every MBA Needs to Answer

jedsturman — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:56:40 +0000

Date: Friday, October 3rd
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Led by: Mark Albion, author of True to Yourself and Making a Life, Making a Living
For Details and to Register: http://tinyurl.com/yze7q2

What are you going to do with your lucky lottery ticket? Each MBA is a privileged member of this planet. What are you going to do with that privilege? What contribution will you make? You want to make a difference, but are held back by debts, expectations about your future, and peer pressure that makes you want to be that 104-year old woman I asked, What’s the best thing about being 104? And responded: “No peer pressure.”

You feel stuck—pushed into career decisions that you might not otherwise make. Pushed to where what you think are your safest career decisions may actually be your riskiest.

We’ll go through four questions and twelve principles I have developed by listening to you at over 25 schools each year the past 20 years. These principles will help you create your personal “destiny” plan, your career map to money and meaning, to profit and purpose.

About Mark:

A six-time social entrepreneur and author, Mark Albion received his 15 minutes of fame as an HBS professor in the 1980s profiled on 60 Minutes as a top young business-school professor in the country, which earned him a hug from Ronald Reagan. He left Harvard in 1988 to develop with SVN colleagues a community for service-minded MBAs, which became Net Impact in 1993. He travelled to over 125 business schools on 5 continents, for which Business Week called him, facetiously he trusts, “the savior of business school souls,” which earned him a hug from Mother Teresa.

The past decade Mark has authored three books and a 3-CD series, Finding Work That Matters. In 2000 he wrote the New York Times Best Seller, Making a Life, Making a Living (www.makingalife.com). In 2006, he wrote SVN’s leadership book, True to Yourself: Leading a Values Based Business. Released October 1, foreword by Net Impact Executive Director Liz Cutler Maw, is More than Money: Questions Every MBA Needs to Answer. With Free Range Studios, he co-created a 3-minute animated movie, “The Good Life,” about a chance meeting between an MBA and a fisherman. As the MBA tries to teach the fisherman about business, the fisherman teaches him about life (www.more-than-money.org). Check out Ruben’s watercolor frames!

Aug. 20: Summer Book Discussion

jedsturman — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:53:20 +0000

Date: Wednesday, August 20th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Trident Booksellers & Café (338 Newbury Street, Boston, MA)

Join fellow members for our second installation of the Net Impact Boston book club! We are excited to announce that the August book is “How to Change the World, Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas” by David Bornstein.

The book profiles nine champions of social change who developed innovative ways to address needs they saw around them in places as distinct as Bombay, India; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and inner-city Washington, D.C. To demonstrate the commonality among experiences as diverse as a Hungarian mother striving to provide a fuller life for her handicapped son and a South African nurse starting a home-care system for AIDS patients, the book presents useful unifying summaries of “four practices of innovative organizations” and “six qualities of successful social entrepreneurs.” For synopsis and reviews of the book, go to: http://tinyurl.com/6pno3p

Please RSVP to Jennifer Splansky (Jennifer.splansky@gmail.com)

“The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs are Changing the World” by John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan

jedsturman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:42:25 +0000

Written by local authors John Elkington, founder of SustainAbility, and Pamela Hartigan, Managing Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Enterprise, The Power of Unreasonable People takes a fascinating look at the worl

d of social entrepreneurs and the challenges they face.

What is social entrepreneurship? Under what conditions does it work best? And what are some of the most exciting trends and developments in the field? Join us for a panel discussion with some of this dynamic movement’s leaders:

“How to Change the World” by David Bornstein

NIBWeb — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:33:29 +0000

Join fellow members for our second installation of the Net Impact

Boston book club! We are excited to announce that the August book is ”How to Change the World, Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas” by David Bornstein.

The book profiles nine champions of social change who developed
innovative ways to address needs they saw around them in places as
distinct as Bombay, India; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and inner-city
Washington, D.C. To demonstrate the commonality among experiences as diverse as a Hungarian mother striving to provide a fuller life for
her handicapped son and a South African nurse starting a home-care
system for AIDS patients, the book presents useful unifying summaries
of “four practices of innovative organizations” and “six qualities of
successful social entrepreneurs.” For synopsis and reviews of the book, go to www.howtochangetheworld.org

We will be meeting at 7:30 on Wednesday August 20th, at the Trident Booksellers & Café.

Please RSVP to Jennifer Splansky (Jennifer.Splansky-at-gmail.com)