Congratulations Net Impact Club- Kellogg has been named Graduate School Chapter of the Year at the Net Impact Conference! Read more
Kellogg also won the 2009 re-source Challenge sponsored by Nestle. A huge congratulations to Kate Jackson, David Morse, and Keith Schuricht (Class of 2011) (11/2009) |
Chevron executive talks ethics and energy during Kellogg visit.
Social Enterprise series gives students a look at complexities facing today’s leaders. Read story (11/2009) |
Solving a summer-school conundrum
A Kellogg case competition seeks to scale a successful summer education program for underserved youth. Read more (11/2009) |
‘Nothing But Nets’
Elizabeth Gore of the United Nations Foundation shares the unexpected lessons from a marketing campaign. Read story (11/2009) |
Teams of MBA students from top business schools across the country competed Saturday, October 24th to address start-up challenges faced by education entrepreneurs committed to transforming the nation’s public education system. The Kellogg School of Management partnered with Indianapolis-based The Mind Trust to create this event that will engage America’s future leaders in education reform around The Mind Trust’s Education Entrepreneur Fellowship. Read more (10/2009) |
Medill Reports
The birth of a TIF: more money, more questions 6/2/09
From the article: In 2007, Chicago TIFs collected about $555 million from property owners. Filling the hole left by those redirected TIF dollars is one reason why Cook County sales taxes are among the highest in the nation. “The county is starved for revenue sources and has decided to expand the sales tax to being the highest point in the country,” said Don Haider, who currently serves as the director of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management. And with more new TIFs on the horizon, the taxpayer burden could continue to rise. However, most agree that the TIF program contributes to the growth of the city and to the influx of tourist money and other revenue. “This city happens to be going through a tremendous rebirth and regeneration and redevelopment almost everywhere,” Haider said, crediting the TIF program as a major factor in Chicago’s expansion. (09/2009) |
2008 Beacon Capital Fellows Carolyn Carpenter and Jeremy Hunnewell provide their final fellowship reports. Read about Carolyn's time with Teach For America (PDF 26 KB) and Jeremy's time with the Red Cross (PDF 11 KB). (09/2009) |
| Kellogg graduate Jamie Jones recognized at the ASPA 29th Annual Public Service Recognition Awards Program. Read more. (07/2009) |
Kellogg students supported Kellogg-founded social ventures through a Mustache ManPageant that raised $15,000 for Room to Read. This amount is enough to send 60 girls in developing countries to school for a year. (05/2009) |
2007 Beacon Capital Fellows Bryan Campbell and Jill Zeldin concluded their fellowships; Bryan stayed with Opportunity International and Jill stayed with the U.S. Olympic Committee. This is a great testament to exactly what the Beacon Fellowship was intended to do. Read Bryan's report and Jill's report (02/2009) |
| Beacon Capital Fellow updates! Read about Cari Carpenter's experience with Teach For America here, and Jeremy Hunnewell's experience with Red Cross of Greater Chicago here. (01/2009) |
Change leadership
Kellogg School professors weigh in on the management lessons awaiting President Barack Obama
1/19/2009 - With an economy in despair and a country at war, President Barack Obama will face tremendous challenges after he is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States...With that in mind, several Kellogg School professors share their insights on what Obama needs to do to deliver on his oft-repeated promise of “change you can believe in.” Full story (01/2009) |
Chicago Tribune
Social entrepreneurs mix business, mission
December 15, 2008 - Current thinking suggests entrepreneurs can have a bigger impact with a for-profit firm, said Daniel Diermeier, professor of management and co-founder of the social enterprise program at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. "In many cases, it is easier to attract capital for a for-profit venture," Diermeier said. "Attracting that capital will allow them to grow faster, have a bigger impact and be better managed." If the product or service won't be profitable but is filling a valuable need in society, consider a non-profit. Full story (01/2009) |
First Business Morning News
"Food Safety Update"
December 1, 2008 - IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice Daniel Diermeier comments on the FDA’s new plan to improve food safety. Read here (12/2008) |
| Congratulations to the Kellogg Net Impact Community on taking home the Graduate School Chapter of the Year Runner-up Award for the second consecutive year! Read more (12/2008) |
Forbes
Trust The Voters, commentary by Social Enterprise at Kellogg (SEEK) Director and Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Tim Feddersen
November 4, 2008 - There is extraordinary turnout for these elections. For the rest of the week, and perhaps the next four years, some Americans will be thrilled, while others will be convinced that the outcome is a terrible mistake. Full article (11/2008) |
| Tim Feddersen, Social Enterprise at Kellogg (SEEK) Director and Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, was featured in the November 3, 2008 New York Times article “When Duty Calls: The Value of Voting, Beyond Politics.” Read full article here (11/2008) |
NPR
New Rival for Carbon Trading Guru
September 25, 2008 - An interview with Adjunct Professor of Social Enterprise and Chicago Climate Exchange founder Richard Sandor. Read here |
Globe and Mail (Canada)
Maple Leaf moves into crisis mode
August 21, 2008 - From the article: “They face a very, very difficult challenge here and it's very important that they have stepped forward and accepted responsibility,” said Daniel Diermeier, a professor of regulation and competitive practice at Chicago's Kellogg School of Management. “They have chosen to protect their brand, rather than protecting their legal liability. This is correct – they can deal with legal issues later, after they've rescued the brand.” He said the company is making the right moves to regain consumers' trust, and added it's essential that it shows concern for its customers, regardless of potential lawsuits. Read more |
InsideCounsel
Through the Mud: Going into litigation with a tarnished image is tricky, but it’s possible to prevail.
August 1, 2008 - From the article: Once the jury is in place, “The number one thing you have to understand is how this particular issue is going to be perceived,” says Daniel Diermeier, a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Diermeier lectures on crisis management. “If it is a very technical issue, it will be very difficult, sometimes impossible, to convince the general public. It’s not that they don’t believe you—though that may be true as well. The main problem is that they don’t understand.” Read more |
| Business and medicine come together as Kellogg team helps beat asthma: CHEST Foundation contest spurs innovation, experiential learning for student winners; C. Everett Koop among elite judges Read more (05/2008) |
Kellogg team triumphs in final round of case competition
Students win first place in 2008 Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition
May 9, 2008 - This April, five Kellogg School students competed against peers from other top business schools in the Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition. Kellogg came out on top. Read more (05/2008) |
On Thursday, May 8th, the Allen Center will host the final wrap up and dinner of the Chest Foundation Case Competition a collaborative effort of the Chest Foundation and the Carol and Larry Levy Social Entrepreneurship Lab at the Kellogg School of Management and Kellogg’s Social Impact Club, Health Industry Management Program, and Healthcare and Biotechnology Club. Full story (05/2008) |
Kellogg faculty debate practical, ethical implications of biofuels
April 7, 2008 - Kellogg School Professors Tim Calkins, Adam Galinsky and Ben Jones took part in an April 3 panel discussion on the ethics and efficacy of biofuels in the fight against global warming.
Moderated by Lynne Kiesling, a senior lecturer in the Social Enterprise at Kellogg (SEEK) program, and sponsored by the Social Impact Club, the event drew hundreds of interested observers — primarily Kellogg students and staff — to the Donald P. Jacobs Center. Full story (04/2008) |
| The Kellogg School of Management is ranked the #3 nonprofit business management program in the U.S. according to the U.S. News and World Report America's Best Graduate Schools 2009. The program moved up 1 position from the previous rankings. Congratulations to the Center for Nonprofit Management, the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship, and the Social Enterprise at Kellogg (SEEK) program! (04/2008) |
Former
U.S. Ambassador visits GIM class
Former United States Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania,
Charles Stith, visited Kellogg’s Global Initiatives in
Management (GIM) Tanzania course as a guest speaker on March
12, 2008. (03/2008) |
Chicago
Public Radio
Refineries Expand to Process Dirty
Oil
March 12, 2008
From the segment: But can we cut pollution and keep
gas prices level? Some economists doubt it. Lynne
Kiesling teaches at Northwestern University. "Regardless
of your perception of corporate profits there is a fundamental
trade-off between environmental quality and increasing our refinery
production." Kiesling says, when refineries invest in pollution
control, consumers ultimately foot the bill. And she says drivers
are to blame – over time, we buy more gasoline –
even when prices rise. So, oil companies are just trying to
meet our demand with new, dirtier oil. (03/2008) |
2008
Beacon Capital Fellowships Awarded
Congratulations to 2008 Beacon Capital Fellowship Recipients,
Carolyn Carpenter '08 and Jeremy Hunnewell '08! Read
more (03/2008) |
Kellogg
team wins Haas School’s Education Leadership Case Competition
Insights may contribute to
rebuilding New Orleans education system
February 28, 2008 - A team of Kellogg students
took home the top prize from the Education Leadership Case Competition
at UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
The four students — Nicole Barry Dorn, Melissa Hogg, Cat
Ng (all ’08) and Justin Su ’09 — competed
against teams from other top MBA programs at schools that included
Stanford University and Duke University for a $3,000 cash prize
and a $2,000 DonorsChoose gift certificate. Read more (03/2008) |
‘Megacommunities’
expert shares strategy for confronting global challenges
Booz
Allen SVP Reginald Van Lee tells Kellogg students how ‘cross-boundary
leadership’ is seeking novel solutions
February 21, 2008 - Tough problems demand
tough-minded answers built on new ways of framing issues. And
those issues, increasingly, are ones whose complexity demands
harnessing the power of business, government and nonprofit organizations.
Read
full article
(02/2008) |
Chicago Tribune
Schoolhouse rescued in write-in effort
February 8, 2008
"Your standard direct mail campaign or your standard phone-a-thon
that historically may have worked for smaller organizations
do not work in today's world," said Liz Howard,
associate director for the Center for Non-Profit Management
at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
"You've got to do something different than everybody else."
Read more (02/2008)
|
| Four first-year
Kellogg School students hit the ground running at an international
case competition in January that gave them less than 24 hours
to address a nonprofit organization's most pressing strategic
issues. Read
the full story (01/2008) |
Congratulations
to the Social Impact Club members for winning the Intersections
Case Competition at Georgia Tech
The
Kellogg team beat six other top MBA programs at the 1st Annual
Intersections Case Competition hosted by Georgia Tech to take
home the top prize. The case-based competition challenges
students to develop a strategic plan that addresses issues
of growth and sustainability in the nonprofit sector.
Becky Ingis, Allana Jackson, Tiffany Urrechaga and
Kelly Hsieh, all ’09, comprised this year’s Kellogg
team. Each team had 8 hours to develop a 20
minute presentation which they presented to judges from the
nonprofit sector as well as Accenture, IBM and Bank of America.
The case was based on a local nonprofit organization called
MedShare which delivers much-needed medical supplies to underserved
communities around the world. (01/2008) |
Meet Your Future Board
Members (PDF 1.72 MB)
Corporate Board Member, January/February
2008
A profile of the Kellogg School's Board Fellows Program, a
two-year program in which students serve as board members
on local nonprofit organizations. The program includes the
course "Board Governance of Nonprofit Organizations," taught
by Senior Lecturer Anne Cohn
Donnelly.
(01/2008) |
Reasons
behind public choices
(PDF 870 KB)
The Mint (Dow Jones publication in India), December
3, 2007
The article is based on the research of Peter G. Peterson
Professor of Corporate Ethics David
Austen-Smith and Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial
Economics and Decision Sciences Timothy
Feddersen. (12/2007) |
Aspen
Institute named Prof. Daniel Diermeier ‘Faculty Pioneer’
Award recognizes Kellogg faculty and curriculum in area of
socially responsible business Professor Daniel
Diermeier, the Kellogg School’s IBM Distinguished
Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice, was honored
this week by the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business
Education with a 2007 Faculty
Pioneer Award. Read the full article (11/2007) |
Enron
investigator briefs values-based leadership class on corporate
ethics While it’s impossible to predict when
a company’s senior leadership might cross over from
creative accounting to reckless deceitfulness, said FBI Supervisory
Special Agent Paul Holdeman, corrupt bookkeepers do have one
thing in common: None of them ever said, “I want to
commit accounting fraud when I grow up.” Read the full article (11/2007) |
Congratulations
to the Social Impact Club (SIC) for receiving an Honorable Mention
at the 2007 Net Impact Chapter of the Year Competition! Kellogg’s
Social Impact Club was one of only four schools with established
Net Impact chapters to place in this competition. The Social
Impact Club tied for the 2nd Place / Runner-Up position with
the following chapters: Fuqua (Duke) Net Impact Chapter, and
Yale School of Management Net Impact Chapter. The winning
Chapter of the Year went to the Ross School of Business at
the University of Michigan. Congratulations also to the Kellogg
Greening Initiative for being recognized for their winning
performance this summer in the Net Impact Green Challenge
and to the Chicago Professional Chapter of Net Impact for
winning the Professional Chapter of the Year award! Way to
go Kellogg and Chicago! (11/2007) |
| Medill Reports
(Chicago) Chicago
Climate Exchange announces international growth. Senior Lecturer
in Social Enterprise
Lynne Kiesling
says that by expanding internationally, the Chicago Climate
Exchange can “get the folks where the trades can have
the biggest impact.” CCX was founded by Richard
Sandor, adjunct professor of Social Enterprise.
(10/2007) |
| ShoreBank
founder Ron Grzywinski urges action from "citizen leaders":
Student-led Innovating Social Change Conference brings together
academics and executives for Kellogg summit on sustainable business
Read
the full article (10/2007) |
| Three Kellogg
Board Fellows — Melissa Hogg '08, Mike Rosskamm '08 and
Jodie Zimmerman ‘08— have been named 2007 Siebel
Scholars. Both Melissa and Mike are also members of the Social
Impact Club. Read
the full article (09/2007) |
| Prof. Austen-Smith
named Peter G. Peterson Chair in Corporate Ethics: Gift from
Blackstone co-founder and Kellogg alumnus aims to correct “moral”
failures in business, boost school’s mission of creating
socially responsible leaders Read
the full article (09/2007) |
NewsHour
with Jim Lehrer (PBS), September 19, 2007
Lynne
Kiesling, Senior Lecturer in Social Enterprise, comments
on public outrage directed against BP: "In this grand bargain
that goes on between the value of environmental quality and
the value of products and services that we consume, that to
the extent that that balance shifts towards being willing to
pay more to secure environmental value, that that will mean
that more companies like BP and other petroleum refiners, as
we ask them to incur those costs, that we will see the costs
of the goods and services that we buy from them go up. So, again,
we`re seeing still that tradeoff." (09/2007) |
| Jeff
Crystal, who founded the Kellogg Greening Initiative (KGI) last
year, won first place in Net Impact's Campus Greening Initiative
for his efforts last year. The full story can be found on the
Net
Impact Web site and in the story "Kellogg
team wins in Net Impact ‘green’ competition"
on the Kellogg School's Web site. (07/2007) |
| "Global
Health Initiative a new way to put Kellogg leadership on the
map; effort helping in HIV fight" in the Summer 2007 issue
of Kellogg World alumni magazine. Read
the full article (07/2007) |
| The values
that drive ethical leadership are outlined with help from SEEK
faculty and alumni in the article "Just profits: The values
that drive ethical leadership take stock of more than numbers"
in the Summer 2007 issue of Kellogg World alumni magazine.
Read
the full article (07/2007) |
| Learn the
latest about the nonprofit One Acre Fund, led by Andrew Youn
'06, in the article "Alum's nonprofit gains support for hunger
relief in Africa" in the Summer 2007 issue of Kellogg World
alumni magazine. Read
the full article (07/2007) |
| Kellogg team
wins in Net Impact ‘green’ competition. Read the rest of the
story (07/2007) |
| Jeff
Crystal, who founded the Kellogg Greening Initiative (KGI) last
year, won first place in Net Impact's Campus Greening Initiative
for his efforts last year. The full story can be found on the
Net
Impact website (07/2007)
|
| A team of
five Kellogg students recently earned first place at the second
Sustainable Venture Capital Investment Competition (SVCIC),
held March 30-31 at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Read More (06/2007) |
| Clinical
Professor of Social Enterprise Anne Cohn Donnelly appears in
the article "Students and Nonprofits: Mutually Beneficial Relationships"
in the Wall Street Journal (05/08/2007). Professor Donnelly
endorses a combination of hands-on and classroom experience
saying, "There's no way you can learn just by seeing. You need
the link to theory." (05/2007) |
| Prof. Liz
Howard and Prof. Richard Honack held a series of luncheon lectures
on Nonprofit Marketing & Fundraising. Lectures were held
in the Jacobs Center, room G42 from 12:15-1:15pm on the following
Thursdays: April 19, May 3, May 10, May 17 & May 24, 2007.
(05/2007) |
| The Minneapolis
Star Tribune (March 30, 2007) featured a profile of Andrew
Youn '06 and his successful nonprofit One Acre Fund. Read the
article, "Plan
to feed starving kids grows" (03/2007) |
| Bob Bell,
director of food resources for CARE, was a guest speaker in
Prof. David Austen-Smith's SEEK-460 Values-Based Leadership
class on March 6th. Mr. Bell presented to the class on a food
aid case written for the Wall Street Journal. Find
out more (03/2007) |
| Eleven
members of the Social Impact Club just returned from a successful
Career Trek to the San Francisco Bay Area. Find
out more (03/2007) |
| Congratulations
to Peter Siu ’07, who was named the Kellogg School’s
first Gap Inc. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Scholar.
Find out more (02/2007) |
| Congratulations
to Jill Zeldin '07 and Bryan Campbell '07, who were named the
2007 Beacon Capital Fellowship Recipients. Find
out more about the Beacon Capital Fellows Program (02/2007) |
Social Impact Club Career Fair 2007
The Social Impact Club hosted its third annual Career Fair
targeting organizations that uphold the values of social and
environmental responsibility. About 30 organizations were
represented. The event took place Wednesday, February 21,
2007, 1:00 - 3:30 pm in the atrium of the Jacobs Center. |
| Cassandra
Pulley '76 discussed the past, present and future of socially
responsible business at the Donald P. Jacobs Center on Nov.
8. as Beacon Capital Partners Executive in Residence. Read
more (11/2006) |
| Kellogg
School students played a leadership role in orchestrating the
14th Annual Net Impact Conference, hosted by Kellogg Oct. 27-29.
More than 150 students from the Social Impact Club contributed
their talents in various ways, including marketing, logistics
and curriculum. Read
the full article (10/2006) |
| Paul Carothers,
vice president of global public affairs at Kraft Foods, spoke
Oct. 18 as part of the Kellogg Social Impact Club's lecture
series. Read
the full article (10/2006) |
| The application
for the 2007 Beacon Capital Fellows Program, as well as the
preliminary list of participating companies is now available.
Go to the BCFP information
(10/2006) |
| Colonel
Kenneth Baillie, head of Midwest Territory for the Salvation
Army, spoke on Oct. 4 to kick off the Social Impact Club's fall
lecture series. Read
the full article (10/2006) |
| The dates,
speakers and topics for the Fall 2006 Social Impact Speaker
Series have been announced. Find
out more about the Speaker Series (08/2006) |
| Dean Jain
announces Kellogg School will host 2006 Net Impact Conference
Read the announcement (08/2006) |
| Recent
graduate Andrew Youn's (KSM ’06) organization, One Acre
Fund, and what a typical day is like for him working with families
in rural western Kenya was recently profiled in a BusinessWeek
article. (07/2006) |
| Christopher
A. Crane, President & CEO of Opportunity International,
delivered two lectures to the Kellogg School community on May
18th: Opportunity International: Providing Financial Services
for the Poor and A Business Solution to Poverty. View
photos from the event (05/2006) |
| Christopher
A. Crane, President & CEO of Opportunity International,
delivered two lectures to the Kellogg School community on May
18th.(05/2006) |
| Read about
the student-run Neighborhood Business Initiative in "NBI
Assists Local Agencies, Businesses" Full
article (04/2006) |
| The SEEK
Program is pleased to announce the first ever Beacon Capital
Partners Executive in Residence, Christopher A. Crane, President
& CEO of Opportunity International. Read
more (04/2006) |
| Adjunct
Professor Richard Sandor and his environmental futures exchange,
the Chicago Climate Exchange were profiled in the Chicago
Tribune. Read
the article (02/2006) |
| Announcing
the Beacon Capital Fellows Program! Application deadline is
March 17, 2006. Read more about
the program (02/2006) |
| The 3M
Foundation recently made a gift to the Kellogg School of Management
in support of the Social Enterprise at Kellogg (SEEK) Program,
to support its teaching and research. Read
More (02/2006) |
| Patagonia
founder and owner Yvon Chouinard was a recent guest in the Fall
2005 Speaker Series. (11/2005) |
| In
the article "Making a Difference: Optimism" second-year
student Andrew Youn writes for Worthwhile magazine about
his summer internship experience, working with an AIDS treatment
organization in South Africa. (10/2005) |
| Global
leadership demands social responsibility, say Kellogg experts
at the 2005 Innovating Social Change Conference (10/2005) |
| "What
will an MBA get you? Here are some folks who know," features
two alums in the nonprofit sector (09/2005) |
| First-Year
MBA Students dedicate time to the Chicago Community and get
a keynote address from Janet Froetscher (KSM ‘83), president
and CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Chicago (09/2005) |
| Kellogg
Social Impact Club earns two top awards at 12th Annual Net Impact
Conference (11/2004) |
| The
Winter 2004 issue of Kellogg World includes an article
on the 2004 Innovating Social Change Conference (11/2004) |
| Co-Director
Liz Livingston Howard is quoted in the story "Teaching
Business Skills to People With a Social Mission" in the
October Chronicle of Higher Education (10/2004) |
| Co-Director
Liz Livingston Howard is the author of "Educate Thyself"
in the October 2004 Forum Magazine (10/2004) |
| The
Sixth Annual Innovating Social Change Conference took place
on October 6, 2004 (10/2004) |
| Jeffrey
Hollender, CEO of Seventh Generation and author of What
Matters Most recently spoke at the Kellogg School
(03/2004) |
| "Nonprofit
101" The Center for Nonprofit Management is profiled in
Crain's Chicago Business (02/2004) |