Global Impact Speaker Series: Stuart Hart, Cornell University
Thursday, September 21, 2006, Betty Ford Classroom #1110, School of Public Policy
Professor Stuart Hart, the S.C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management and the founder of the school's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and the Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab, will be the guest speaker at the WDI Global Impact Speaker Series on September 21, 2006. The event will be held at 4:30 pm in the Betty Ford Classroom #1110, School of Public Policy, with a reception to follow.
Professor Hart is one of the world's top authorities on the implications of sustainable development and environmentalism for business strategy. Before coming to the Johnson School, Professor Hart taught strategic management and founded both the Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE) at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the Corporate Environmental Management Program (CEMP) at the University of Michigan. He has consulted or served as management educator for many corporations and organizations throughout the world.
Hart has published over 50 papers and authored or edited five books. He wrote the seminal article "Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World," which won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in Harvard Business Review in 1997, and helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability. With C.K. Prahalad, Hart also wrote the pathbreaking 2002 article "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," which provided the first articulation of how business could profitably serve the needs of the four billion poor in the developing world.
This event is co-sponsored by the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise.
