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| September 24, 2009
MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Bill Caldwell, Office of Public Information, Pace University, 212-346-1597, wcaldwell@pace.edu
R0SABETH MOSS KANTER, WORLD RENOWNED BUSINESS THINKER, TO SPEAK AT PACE UNIVERSITY ON SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISES
WHO and WHAT: World renowned business expert, Harvard University professor, and bestselling author Rosabeth Moss Kanter will visit Pace University to discuss her new book: SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good, a manifesto for leadership of sustainable enterprises. The event is coordinated by the Business Honors Program of Pace’s Lubin School of Business.
WHEN: Wednesday September 30, from 2-4pm
WHERE: Pace University, One Pace Plaza, Lecture Hall South, Downtown New York City campus (just East of City Hall).
Background: Named one of the “50 most powerful women” and “50 most influential business thinkers” in the world, Kanter’s message is relevant for the global recession and beyond: how companies can use their power not only for profits but for social good. She says this replaces a failed model of capitalism that brought the financial crisis with a new model for conducting business in the public interest.
Vanguard companies have a strong sense of values and social purpose at the heart of the enterprise, wanting it to endure and mean something beyond current transactions. She says they have proven that virtue brings rewards by out-performing their peers during the recession. She shows how they do it in insider stories from IBM, Procter & Gamble, Publicis Groupe (the French advertising-marketing behemoth that just moved up to the #3 position in the world), and many others.
The book is optimistic -- arguing that there is a better way to operate that creates innovation and is good for employees and communities – but it also takes a hard look at the dark side of global capitalism before describing how to develop better leaders.
About Pace. For 103 years Pace has produced thinking professionals by providing high quality education for the professions on a firm base of liberal learning amid the advantages of the New York metropolitan area. A private university, it has campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, enrolling nearly 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in its Lubin School of Business, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, School of Education, School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. www.pace.edu
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