We’re less than two weeks away from Tuck’s 10th Annual Business & Society Conference, and I wanted to talk a little bit about this year’s conference theme: “Trading Off: Impactful Business Strategy in Uncertain Times.”
Impactful Business Strategy
Our executive committee spent a lot of time this past summer and fall discussing what we wanted the 2012 conference to focus on. We discussed a wide variety of social impact topics, including renewable energy, sustainable supply chains, socially responsible investing, affordable healthcare, and more. What we kept coming back to was that no matter the industry, we need to recognize that in order to be most successful, social impact should not function in a vacuum – for example, in one division of a company, separated from the rest of the business. Corporate responsibility and sustainability need to be integrated with everyday business decisions. We, as future business leaders, need to learn how to incorporate these issues into the overarching strategy for the business.
In Uncertain Times
We also recognize that once we arrive at a solution, we then face the challenge of how to push that idea through an organization. And in times of economic hardship, an uncertain regulatory environment, and demanding shareholders, moving a “social impact” idea through an organization can be difficult. So how do we innovate, who do we influence, and what makes us succeed? It’s not enough to find answers; we also need to understand how to implement them.
We have more than 40 Tuck students helping to organize this year’s conference, and we look forward to hosting you at the BSC this year. In addition to our formal sessions, we’ll have coffee breaks, lunch, and a cocktail reception where participants can mingle with each other and our speakers. We aim to raise the level of discourse about social impact, and we hope that you will join us!
Register now:
http://tuck2012bsc.eventbrite.com/
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth’s Business & Society Conference brings together leaders from a wide range of fields to discuss the important role that business leaders can play in creating a more sustainable world.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Welcome T'14s!
Congratulations to the incoming class of 2014 on your admission to Tuck!
We at the Tuck BSC would like to invite you to attend the Business and Society Conference this February 9th and 10th. This is a great chance for you to preview the Tuck community's commitment to business issues that reach beyond the bottom line! At the conference you will have the opportunity to attend panels on energy, healthcare, social impact as strategy, impact investing, and design thinking. If you have any question about visiting Tuck for the conference, please direct them to Sarah Stern T'13 at bsc.tuck@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you there!
We at the Tuck BSC would like to invite you to attend the Business and Society Conference this February 9th and 10th. This is a great chance for you to preview the Tuck community's commitment to business issues that reach beyond the bottom line! At the conference you will have the opportunity to attend panels on energy, healthcare, social impact as strategy, impact investing, and design thinking. If you have any question about visiting Tuck for the conference, please direct them to Sarah Stern T'13 at bsc.tuck@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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