Tag Archives: social impact

May 22, 2018

Professor Profiles: UT McCombs’s Meeta Kothare

Having the opportunity to learn from the best and brightest minds in business is one of the top motivators for many applicants considering an MBA degree at an elite business school. The professors and lecturers … →

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August 11, 2017

Georgetown MBA Students Pledge Summer Pay to Social Impact Internship Fund

This spring, the Net Impact chapter at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business launched a fundraising campaign for the Social Impact Internship Fund (SIIF) to encourage first-year MBA students to donate 0.5 percent of their summer … →

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March 2, 2015

New Social Impact Fund at UNC Kenan-Flagler

Students at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School are going to invest real money using socially responsible principles through a new $250,00o public equity fund managed by both MBAs and undergrads. UNC Kenan-Flagler … →

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February 11, 2014

$10M Gift Funds New Social Impact Center at Georgetown

A $10 million gift from philanthropists Alberto and Olga Maria Beeck will fund the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, the school announced yesterday. The center will foster innovation among students … →

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February 2, 2011

The Wharton School Receives $6.5m to Establish Social Impact Prize

B-school alums have really been coming through for their alma maters lately. Last week, I wrote about Columbia Business School alum Richard Paul Richman’s $10m gift to Columbia University for the establishment of the Richard … →

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September 22, 2010

Ross Announces Launch of Social Venture Fund

The University of Michigan‘s Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Ross School of Business formally announced the launch yesterday of its new Social Venture Fund. Created in Fall 2009 … →

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