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Panel panel Descriptions
Keynote Speech 1 – friday, february 25
10 Year Check-point for Social entrepreneurship: What have We learned?
Pamela Hartigan
Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Said Business School and Volans Founding
Partner and Non Executive Director
It has been ten years since social entrepreneurship emerged on the global scene as a systems’ changing movement.
Since then, the need to scale for wide impact has been at the top of the agenda in every gathering – large or small - of
social entrepreneurs. And more recently, there is growing excitement about “social investing”. Realistically, what can
we expect over the coming 5 years for social entrepreneurship, and where do MBAs fit into this emerging panorama?
Keynote Speech 2 – friday, february 25
a new Capitalism for a new Society. responsible businesses. responsible Citizens.
The end of Myths.
Lord Michael Hastings
KPMG’s Global Head of Citizenship and Diversity
Understand the new thinking in corporate life and address the personal challenge implied whilst increasingly demanding
more values based impact from business leaders. It’s time to stop bashing business for the economic pressures of
2011. A citizens’ partnership is the only way forward. Who is ready to trust?
Keynote Speech 3 – Saturday, february 26
from Consumerism to Creativity: Transitioning to a high Satisfaction, low-impact economy.
Juliet Schor
Professor of Sociology at Boston College and co-founder and co-chair of the Board of the Center for a New American
Dream
In recent years, the US consumer-led economy with has been shown to be ecologically and financially unsustainable.
Furthermore, its collapse has led to widespread unemployment, continued inability to tackle greenhouse gas emissions,
and a rudderless economic policy. In this talk Juliet Schor will outline a new way forward which focuses on reducing
working hours, lightening ecological footprint, supporting small, eco-friendly businesses, and enhancing creativity and
innovation at a local level. She calls this new model Plenitude, to emphasize its ability to create wealth, well-being, and a
sustainable future.
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