Friday, May 29, 2009
Three Great Days...
As the month of May draws to a close, the faculty and staff of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise are journeying to New York City for the Cornell Global Forum on Sustainable Enterprise. This landmark event, two years in the making, runs June 1, 2009, through June 3, 2009.
The Cornell Global Forum was conceived by Stuart Hart, the Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson School, and embodies the vision of our Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise—facilitating a new private-sector-based approach to development, focused on creating profitable businesses that simultaneously:
Raise the quality of life for the world's poor
Respect cultural diversity
Conserve the ecological integrity of the planet for future generations
The organizers of the Global Forum have invited 100 delegates to participate in this event. These delegates include the world's leading entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, change agents, and financiers engaged in sustainable innovation and base-of-the-pyramid enterprise development.
Their goal and that of the Cornell Global Forum is to accelerate the rate of change toward the "Great Convergence" in the world—the joining of clean technologies with the base of the pyramid. The Great Convergence seeks to fuel growth through the incubation and rapid commercialization of new, sustainable technologies.
The Global Forum kicks off on Monday, June 1, 2009, at an opening session featuring remarks by Dr. David J. Skorton, president of Cornell University, L. Joseph Thomas, dean of the Johnson School, H. Fisk Johnson, chairman and CEO, S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., and forum founder and co-organizer, Stuart Hart. For the next two days, the delegates will meet in closed sessions to create ideas and initiatives around the Great Convergence.
While these sessions are closed to the public and the media, you can follow what's happening in this blog, through daily updates on the Johnson School Web site, and frequent posts to Twitter.
The Cornell Global Forum is about conversations and emerging ideas. So please bring yours to the virtual table! Use the "comment" feature of this blog to join the delegates' deliberations on topics such as:
What does the Great Convergence mean to you?
What is the importance of "convergence" to business success in the future?
What specific convergence initiatives are most important to undertake now?
Let the conversation begin!
The Cornell Global Forum was conceived by Stuart Hart, the Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson School, and embodies the vision of our Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise—facilitating a new private-sector-based approach to development, focused on creating profitable businesses that simultaneously:
Raise the quality of life for the world's poor
Respect cultural diversity
Conserve the ecological integrity of the planet for future generations
The organizers of the Global Forum have invited 100 delegates to participate in this event. These delegates include the world's leading entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, change agents, and financiers engaged in sustainable innovation and base-of-the-pyramid enterprise development.
Their goal and that of the Cornell Global Forum is to accelerate the rate of change toward the "Great Convergence" in the world—the joining of clean technologies with the base of the pyramid. The Great Convergence seeks to fuel growth through the incubation and rapid commercialization of new, sustainable technologies.
The Global Forum kicks off on Monday, June 1, 2009, at an opening session featuring remarks by Dr. David J. Skorton, president of Cornell University, L. Joseph Thomas, dean of the Johnson School, H. Fisk Johnson, chairman and CEO, S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., and forum founder and co-organizer, Stuart Hart. For the next two days, the delegates will meet in closed sessions to create ideas and initiatives around the Great Convergence.
While these sessions are closed to the public and the media, you can follow what's happening in this blog, through daily updates on the Johnson School Web site, and frequent posts to Twitter.
The Cornell Global Forum is about conversations and emerging ideas. So please bring yours to the virtual table! Use the "comment" feature of this blog to join the delegates' deliberations on topics such as:
What does the Great Convergence mean to you?
What is the importance of "convergence" to business success in the future?
What specific convergence initiatives are most important to undertake now?
Let the conversation begin!
# posted by Shannon Dortch @ 12:29 PM 
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