MBA Program Honored for Addressing Business and Society Concerns

Social Enterprise Newsletter, Winter 2000

Pamela Flaherty, senior vice president, Citigroup; Steve Nelson (MBA '88), executive director of the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, accepting the award; Judith Samuelson, executive director, The Aspen Institute's Initiative for Social Innovation through Business; and Jonathan Lash, president, World Resources Institute.

HBS is a leader among U.S. business schools in fostering social awareness, incorporating social concerns into coursework and projects, and supporting student activities and faculty research that influence both classroom materials and corporate decision-making. So says a report issued recently by the World Resources Institute (headquartered in Washington, DC) and the Initiative for Social Innovation through Business (a Manhattan-based program of The Aspen Institute). Titled Beyond Grey Pinstripes: Preparing MBAs for Social and Environmental Stewardship,the study praised HBS, along with nine other business schools, for "cutting-edge programs incorporating societal-business issues."