Faculty Spotlight

What Social Enterprises Can Teach Corporate America About Measuring Social Impact

By Sara Minard, PhD., Executive Professor, DMSB

In a recent New York Times editorial (“Paralysis Isn’t Inevitable” Sept 27), Joe Nocera wonders out loud how we will ever find solutions to intractable problems in our current state of paralyzed politics. He draws us to an article by Roger Martin of the Rotman School of Management that appeared in the Harvard Business Review about the phenomenon of the “talent economy” where talent has replaced both labor and capital as the most important factor in the economy; so much so that the talented can become billionaires while the medium income has stalled and slipped back. >> read more

Citizen Schools Spotlight

The way we deal with conflict is a choice

"ask big enough questions in such a way that kids start thinking about the world a little bit differently."

By Caitlin Morelli

How can we tackle con­flict in our daily lives, both at home and on a global scale? What causes con­flict and can it be avoided? These ques­tions are at the root of Cit­i­zen School’s newest after-school cur­ricu­lum pro­gram, cre­ated to edu­cate mid­dle school stu­dents about deal­ing with con­flict on a day-to-day basis. >> read more

News & Spotlight

Notes from the field, Aakar Innovations. Maya Carlson's updates on life and work in India. >> read more

Shoes, bags and accessories. Find out why "Impact Matters" at Nisolo with Kate Pellegrino. >> read more

Paris, Impact Investing and how SEI helped to shape my perspective. Habib El Magrissy's co-op at Planet Finance. >> read more

South Africa, entrepreneurship and how we use business to survive by Vincent Armentano and Rebecca Darling. >> read more

SEI Student Association

First annual weekly-meeting: October 9th in 15 Snell Library Classrooms. For more information, like their Facebook page!

Dudley Square Clean Up on Saturday 10/4 from 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. via Haley House
Register here.

Alumni Corner

Read Myles Lutheran's, NU '10, recent article in The Unreasonable Institute: "How Avoiding Multi-Million Dollar Investments Saved Our Startup"

"we learned invaluable lessons about our business, our markets, and most importantly our team’s ability to work with our backs against the wall—lessons that no multi-million dollar investment could have provided"
- Myles Lutheran, Director of Business Development at Eco Fuels Kenya (EFK) Group