On April 30th, UNC Kenan-Flagler and the Center for Sustainable Enterprise recognized the outstanding achievements of the 95 students in the MBA Class of 2013 (33% of the class) who completed the Enrichment Concentration in Sustainable Enterprise. At the concentration ceremony, Dean James Dean and MBA Net Impact President Liz Love presented the 2013 Core Faculty Champion in Sustainability Award to Chris Bingham, Associate Professor and Phillip Hettleman Fellow of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. The Core Faculty Champion in Sustainability Award was created by the MBA Net Impact chapter as a way to recognize UNC Kenan-Flagler core faculty members who are excelling at incorporating sustainability into the content and delivery of their core classes. According to Liz Love (MBA ’14), the Read More
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The Redwoods Group: Not Your Typical Insurance Company
By Jessie Robinson, BS Environmental Science ’16 Who knew that an insurance company could be financially sustainable and effect positive social change? Well that is what the Undergraduate Net Impact Career Fellows, a group of select UNC students, discovered when Kevin Trapani, CEO of The Redwoods Group, and Dan Baum, the Executive Director of The Redwoods Group Foundation, spoke on March 26 as part of the Net Impact Career Series. The Redwoods Group is a social enterprise whose mission is to love, serve, and transform, in that order. A certified B corporation that aims to satisfy stakeholders, not just shareholders, the company mainly insures YMCAs across the country as well as other nonprofit and for-benefit camps. Trapani and Baum stressed Read More
Counter Culture Coffee Shares the Business of Being Sustainable
By Doug Stiegler (Undergraduate Business ’15) On Tuesday, February 26th, Brett Smith (MBA ’94), Founder and President of Counter Culture Coffee, spoke to a group of Undergraduate Net Impact Career Fellows. He discussed his philosophy on sustainability and introduced Counter Culture Coffee’s triple bottom line business model. Not only was I excited for this installment of the Net Impact Career Fellows speaker series, but I was pumped that it was going to meet the President of my favorite coffee roaster. Counter Culture Coffee is a wholesale coffee vendor whose vision is to pursue coffee perfection by creating partnerships that ensure prosperity for all people, improving the natural environment and operating efficiently to minimize our environmental impact. Launched in 1995, Counter Read More
UNC MBAs make their way to Net Impact Conference in Ann Arbor
On the weekend of Oct. 28th – 30th, about 20 MBAs and CSE Managing Director Jessica Thomas made our way to a pretty amazing Net Impact conference in Ann Arbor, MI (http://2010.netimpact.org/). Looking back now, the tremendous energy of the 2500+ attendees really made the event, and a couple sessions stick out for me, specifically: Hearing Majora Carter Majora Carter, the founder of Sustainable South Bronx, was the final keynote speaker on the afternoon of Oct. 30th, and was one of the best live speakers I have ever seen. The combination of determination and tangible advice that she brought to her talk was really unique. She told the amazing story of the creation of the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training (BEST) Read More