Harvard Business School Club of New York Announces Unprecedented Summit for Nonprofit Leaders in Social Enterprise

Business Wire, Sept 23, 2008

Pioneer Collaboration of the Country's Most Influential Nonprofit Organizations and Harvard Business School Professors on New Directions in Nonprofit Leadership

NEW YORK -- In celebration of the Harvard Business School's centennial anniversary, the Harvard Business School Club of New York (HBSCNY) (www.hbscny.org) is hosting its first annual gathering of top nonprofit leaders today, Tuesday, September 23. The Social Enterprise Summit is a day-long educational event focused on a dialogue around "New Directions in Nonprofit Leadership."

The Social Enterprise Summit - the first in an annual series of educational forums - brings together the senior leadership of top nonprofit organizations with one of the country's most distinguished business schools. The mission is to offer resources and professional expertise in order to advance these nonprofit organizations and help them become more effective in achieving their philanthropic missions. Four to five hundred chief executive officers, chief operating officers, executive directors and board chairs from the most influential nonprofits will discuss emerging trends in nonprofit leadership.

The Social Enterprise Summit will consist of a total of twelve sessions structured around three central topic areas: Management and Strategy, Accountability and Governance, and Development and Marketing. Additionally, roundtable discussions will address the most pressing issues, challenges and opportunities facing nonprofits and social enterprise organizations.

"Our Summit will assemble more than 400 CEOs of New York's foremost non-profits with our speakers--50 national and international leaders in business and social enterprise--for an incredible dialogue, one we will capture and build on to truly move social enterprise forward," said Carol Holding, chairman of the HBSCNY. "Social Enterprise is the focus of Harvard Business School's Centennial celebration and our Club is excited to continue its long tradition of providing business skills to non-profit leaders by hosting this summit," said Bruce Marcus, president of HBSCNY.

Speakers for the Social Enterprise Summit include HBS professors Michael Porter and Kash Rangan (co-founder of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative), Gordon Campbell (president and CEO of United Way New York), Donald Distasio (CEO of the American Cancer Society's Eastern Division), and Rita Hauser, founder of the Hauser Center for nonprofits at the JFK School of Government and many other leaders in the social enterprise sector. For a complete list of speakers, please visit: http://www.hbscny.org/article.html?aid=327.

About HBSCNY

The Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York (HBSCNY) is the largest Harvard Business School alumni club with more than 14,000 members. In addition to more than 50 events per year that support the Club's alumni base, the Club maintains a dedication to community service by providing alumni with opportunities to leverage their leadership and management skills--providing New York area nonprofits with close to $1 million of pro-bono consulting per year. In addition to hosting the Social Enterprise Summit, the HBSCNY gives need-based scholarships to students in their MBA program and provides local non-profit executives with the opportunity to further their leadership skills by providing them two full scholarships to the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management course at HBS.