Social Impact & Sustainability Days
Before KWEST, before classes begin, before most students have set foot on campus, there is Social Impact and Sustainability Days at Kellogg. Social Impact and Sustainability Days is an annual August event for incoming students interested in forming community and discovering how they can use their MBA to better serve society through an experiential introduction to innovation in social impact and sustainability.
Over the course of an immersive two-day event, students interested in creating impact come together, learn from prominent speakers, and work in teams to design innovative approaches to real social challenges. The program culminates in an intense team pitch competition.
Four paths
Social Impact and Sustainability Days features four tracks for students to explore their interests while diving deep with subject matter experts and developing innovative ideas to pitch.
Corporate Innovation for Impact
We have seen seismic changes in the relationship between organizations, employees, and communities. Corporate responsibility is radically different than it was 10 years ago. Technological, generational, political, and cultural changes have transformed expectations of corporate behavior. Organizations have the potential to recognize the potential mutual benefit of social innovation and launch products or initiatives that create positive impact while increasing profitability.
What innovations will enable organizations to create value, manage risk, and drive positive impact for their community?
Learn more about Kellogg’s resources on corporate impact and sustainability.
Education Equity and Innovation
Educational opportunity is not allocated equitably across our societies. Education is held up as the vehicle for individual mobility and reduced inequality at national and global scales, but if the distribution of educational resources and opportunities reflects existing inequities, then education may be a force for diverging outcomes.
What can we do to ensure that educational opportunity and outcomes transcend inequalities that exist in our societies?
Climate Solutions
The challenges presented by climate change are rapidly becoming insurmountable, and the power of individuals to create change is dependent on the scalability of their ideas. As business leaders, we are uniquely equipped to find solutions that achieve scale through the merit of profitability.
What can we do to harness the power of markets to mitigate and adapt to climate change?
Learn more about Kellogg’s resources on climate, energy, sustainability.
Healthcare Access and Affordability
Healthcare is recognized as a human right, and affordable access to health services enables people to be more productive and active contributors to their families, schools, communities, and society at large. Yet, affordability for healthcare is a difficult threshold to define, cost-savings rarely if ever come without trade-offs, and the people most in need of increased access are often the most difficult to deliver services to.
What innovations can move us towards affordable healthcare that is universally accessible?