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Brandeis University (Heller)

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Brandeis University (Heller) 415 South Street
Waltham, MA, 02454
United States
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Demographic Information

Number of full-time MBA students (2011): 

28

Number of part-time MBA students (2011): 

5

Total duration of full-time MBA program: 

16 months

MBA faculty (Fall 2010): 

15

Females as percent of student body: 

79%
Who Are the Students? See what percentage of the 2010-2011 graduating class came to this MBA program from the private sector, the non-profit sector and government jobs
 
Private Sector (10%)
 
Non-profit (90%)
 
Government (0%)


Description of MBA Program: 

The Heller MBA program was born and grew up in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, a world-renowned school dedicated to social justice issues. The Heller School was founded just over fifty years ago and was named after Florence Heller, a social worker and community activist. The mission of the Heller School is ‘Knowledge Advancing Social Justice.’ As we like to say – social justice is in our genes. Every student at Heller, no matter which continent they come from or which program they have chosen, is on a mission to make the world a better place. So, the Heller MBA is quite unique in that it was founded based upon the principles of delivering education related to social, ethical and environmental issues and then rigorous core management skills were added to form the MBA curriculum (in contrast to MBA programs born in traditional business schools).

The Heller MBA is preparing the next generation of managers to lead organizations in the pursuit of social missions in the non-profit, for-profit and public sectors.  The Heller School's high standards for management education and its history of excellent policy research and activism are important assets for people contemplating careers as leaders of organizations with a social mission.

The Heller MBA provides students with the skills necessary to lead organizations that are pursuing multiple bottom lines: meeting financial goals, fostering staff development, preserving the environment, and working to resolve society's most pressing problems. The Heller MBA prepares students to be leaders and decision-makers who can find resources and use them efficiently and effectively to help underserved and vulnerable populations, and to improve social and environmental outcomes more broadly.

The Heller MBA's 16-month structure condenses two years of curriculum into four consecutive intense semesters of learning, ideal for people who want to return to work quickly and put their ideas into action.

The curriculum offers a full range of management courses.  Through these courses, students gain the working knowledge to meet the practical challenges they will face when managing for a social mission.  All core MBA courses from Leadership and Organizational Behavior to Corporate Finance are taught from the perspective of mission-driven organizations and the special skills needed to lead these organizations.  Students also take non-traditional courses like Social Justice and Management to develop their own perspective on social justice and to incorporate that perspective into their role as manager; and Social Policy Frameworks, to develop their ability to analyze, evaluate and advocate for the policies that are critical to the social mission of their organization.  In addition, MBA students specialize in one of five management concentrations -- Social Policy & Management; Social Impact Management; Health Care Management; Child, Youth, Family Services Management; or Sustainable Development.



How does the MBA program 'walk the talk' of social and environmental impact?: 

Brandeis University has been at the forefront of implementing sustainability programs, long before this topic received national attention. As Louis Brandeis, the founder of the University, was passionate about social causes, it is natural that the entire Brandeis community had the foresight to see environmental concerns very early on.  A summary of these efforts is described in the following paragraphs.

Brandeis is a charter signatory to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, a national effort of hundred of Universities. In Fall of 2009, the Brandeis Climate Action Plan was released, outlining plans to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions. Actions towards this impressive goal currently include: a 171 KW Solar PV system, a comprehensive energy efficiency program, behavioral change campaigns, alternative transportation incentives and programs and much more.

Waste Reduction & Recycling

Two years ago, the president of Brandeis prohibited the use of plastic water bottles at all meetings, events and in student cafeterias. Students are given reusable water bottles to help break the bottled water habit. All waste from dining facilities is sent to a commercial composting facility. The end of the year Give & Go donation drive reduces student waste and provides reusable items during the Move in Market.

Renewable Clean Energy

One of the largest Solar Electricity systems in Massachusetts was installed in January 2010 on the Gosman gym. The 171 KW solar panel array annually produces enough electricity to power 30 average homes. The university purchases 15 percent of its electricity demands from GreenE certified off-site wind power and is researching a campus wind turbine, as well as other ways to use renewable energy.

Green Buildings

All new construction is built to LEED Silver Standards, a green building standard resulting in energy savings and increased use of local materials.

Transportation

Commuters are encouraged by Green Commuter Days to walk, bike, take transit, and carpool to work. ‘Deis Bikes provides free bike rentals run by student volunteers. ZipCar is a campus carsharing program. A public transit brochure (PDF), written by students, is available around campus and online. The University is also partnering with neighboring organizations to provide local shuttle buses to and from public transit stations in the Metro Boston area.

Sustainability Education & Action

Eco-Reps conduct peer education in their dorms-  helping to obtain over 30%  student participation in declaring a Certified Green Room. Students participate in many campus clubs such as S.E.A. to educate, volunteer, and make changes.

Food

An on-campus Farmers Market, organized by students in the Greening the Ivory Tower brings fresh local produce to the community and the Patchwork Garden is a campus organic vegetable garden. Dinning services works to provide local and vegetarian options.

HellerSAVE

HellerSAVE (Sustainability, Awareness and Valuing the Environment) is an environmental initiative of the Heller School; its mission is to work cooperatively with the entire Heller community—students, staff, and faculty—to maximize the level of environmental responsibility practiced by the Heller School. Numerous programs are tremendously successful, such as Coffee with the Dean, a monthly event, which requires you to bring your own coffee mug!

Academics & Community Outreach

Students in the Greening the Ivory Tower go outside the classroom to create innovative projects including wetlands protection, environmental education for low income children, and labeling storm drains to prevent pollution. Academic programs and internships are available in Green Business, Sustainability Development, and Environmental Studies. The Brandeis Sustainability Fund provides grants, advice and support to any student for their projects promoting sustainability. Projects that receive funding could relate to energy efficiency, green buildings, waste management, renewable energy purchases, or greening student events.

Energy Efficiency

Since 2004, the Energy Savings Program has saved millions of dollars through energy efficient lighting, steam line improvements, and energy management systems.
 

Academic Department

Course Name: Assets and Social Policy
Instructor: Janet Boguslaw

This course focuses on understanding the emerging field of asset policy and considers its contribution to the social policy agenda. Asset-building policies have the potential to reduce poverty, increase economic security, and address wealth inequalities. The course raises questions about how assets contribute across the life course to individual, family, community, and national well-being. We will familiarize ourselves with the emerging asset building literature and discuss how this approach constitutes a departure from traditional poverty frameworks. The course examines the institutional and structural conditions that limit or expand opportunities for wealth accumulation and retention, the role of assets in perpetuating inequalities, and explores opportunities for promoting asset building. We will spend some time understanding the extent to which traditional institutions (such as banks), policies (such as taxes), and programs (such as TANF) affect pathways out of poverty and economic and social stability.

Course Name: Business and the Environment
Instructor: Preeta Banerjee

This is a course about business strategy given environmental issues. Demands for environmental improvement create strategic concerns for managers that can conflict with the imperative of shareholder value creation. Whether or not businesses cause damage to the natural environment (a serious problem from a scientific standpoint), executives need to manage the business risks that concern about the environment creates, and to seize the competitive opportunities it presents
to well-managed firms. The lessons of the course are broadly applicable to strategy and
performance in markets touched by government intervention and imperfect competition, including business strategy towards and with cooperation of activist groups.

Course Name: Business and the Environment
Instructor: Preeta Banerjee

This is a course about business strategy given environmental issues. Demands for environmental improvement create strategic concerns for managers that can conflict with the imperative of shareholder value creation. Whether or not businesses cause damage to the natural environment (a serious problem from a scientific standpoint), executives need to manage the business risks that concern about the environment creates, and to seize the competitive opportunities it presents to well-managed firms. The lessons of the course are broadly applicable to strategy and performance in markets touched by government intervention and imperfect competition, including business strategy towards and with cooperation of activist groups.

Educational objectives

The course has two main objectives. First, we want to improve our ability to design and implement business policy in situations where environmental considerations are important. To do so, we need to think creatively but realistically about the central question of environmental management: under what circumstances can firms accommodate political and social demands for environmental improvement while simultaneously delivering superior returns to shareholders?

Studying environmental problems from the firm‘s perspective also turns out to be an excellent way to develop broadly applicable analytic skills. The course draws on industrial organization theory, natural resource economics, political economy, and the theory of the firm to understand a set of important market imperfections and their implications for business strategy. Among other topics, we study the links between market structure and profitability, the relationships between regulation and market structure, and the effects of incentives within the firm on managerial performance. Many of the managers studied in the course are trying to design incentive systems and exercise leadership in large organizations where short-term and long-term objectives conflict and where values that are intangible and difficult to measure may be extremely important.

Obviously, environmental cases are not the only ones in which these conditions apply. From an administrative point of view, analyzing the management of environmental externalities and public goods yields insights with applications to a wide range of managerial situations.

Course Name: Children, Youth, and Families: Problems, Policies, and Programs
Instructor: Susan Curnan, Lorraine Klerman

This course is designed to provide an overview of the strengths of children, youth, and families in the United States, as well as the problems affecting their well-being and some of the core policies and programs that have been established to address them.

The objective of this course is to engage students in critical thinking, dialogue, and debate about the policies and programs in their chosen field. The course provides some of the information that is essential to understanding the strengths of children, youth and families in the United States and of the problems, policies and programs that have been, or might be, developed to improve their well-being. Particular attention will be paid to those who are vulnerable as a result of economic insecurity or various types of discrimination.

Course Name: Community Building for Managers
Instructor: Andrew Hahn

Many managers and planners – (USA and international) find themselves making community a central feature of their mission. Community can be a mission in and of itself or community might be seen as a way to achieve other outcomes such as deeper reach in social service delivery. Community building has also emerged as an important approach to rebuilding urban and rural communities through comprehensive strategies. This movement of civil society organizations working in partnership with donors and local policymakers uses a bottom-up approach to create an economic base, reduce poverty and improve the well-being of citizens in particular places. Clearly, effective community building takes place in different sectors and turns on a complex set of community-building skills. Learning from these experiences, and reviewing the context that has given rise to the call for community in so many settings, is the purpose of this half course.

The course will focus one part on context, history and background and one part on the practice of community-building, with an eye to the career goals and preparation of managers and planners.

In the introductory part of the course we will discuss the elasticity of the term “community building,” some historical themes, and how a term originally focused mostly on neighborhood revival in the USA is now also used in the context of building stronger ties among people who share specific interests (e.g., “micro-communities” defined by race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or other special group characteristics) and used by managers who would like to reinvent the workplace around community principles. With community building jargon increasingly entering into management and public policy literatures, managers and planners must understand the parameters of this “movement” and acquaint themselves with some of the skills and developments that people doing this work have found useful.

Course Name: Community Building for Managers
Instructor: Andrew Hahn

Many managers and planners find themselves making community a central feature of their mission. Community can be a mission in and of itself or community might be seen as a way to achieve other outcomes, such as a deeper reach in social service delivery. Community building has also emerged as an important approach to rebuilding urban and rural communities through comprehensive strategies. This movement of civil society organizations working in partnership with donors and local policymakers uses a bottom-up approach to create an economic base, reduce poverty and improve the well-being of citizens in particular places. Clearly, effective community building takes place in different sectors and turns on a complex set of community-building skills. Learning from these experiences, and reviewing the context that has given rise to the call for community in so many settings, is the purpose of this course.

Course Name: Contemporary Issues in Policies and Programs for Children, Youth and Families
Instructor: Susan Curnan

Managing systems and programs to benefit children, youth and families in America today means managing people in a time of fiscal constraint; high stakes accountability; and dramatic social, economic and political change –including demographic shifts, changes in the structure and functions of households, dynamics of neighborhoods, schools, the workforce and government leadership. On the other hand, this is a time of great knowledge development and organizational and civic innovation. This course examines many of the contemporary issues that challenge the technical, political and visionary skills of managers and leaders working toward improving the quality of life for American families.

The course helps students learn how to effectively design, implement, and evaluate policies and programs in the non-profit sector. Real-time cases and field work will draw on all three sectors of society, i.e., political sector (government or “the State”), social sector (CBOs and foundations, “Civil Society”), and economic sector (Business, “The Market). The specific content, field work and class discussions taken up in this class assumes that students have a working knowledge of the policies, problems, supports, and opportunities related to children, youth and families in the United States and an understanding of some of the science-based models that have been developed to improve their well-being.

Drawing on management and leadership, theories and practices, from the three sectors,

the course will require students to exercise many critical thinking and higher order skills demanded of managers and leaders today. The 50-hour field study is a unique opportunity to apply and practice newly acquired knowledge, skills and competencies.

Course Name: Corporate Finance
Instructor: Barry Friedman

The course focuses on the financial decisions of corporations and other organizations, particularly investment and financing decisions. It introduces institutional background on financial markets and instruments. It also considers the applicability of the analytic tools to the nonprofit as well as for profit sectors. The main theme arising in this class is balancing mission and margin. The standard valuation tools of corporate finance evaluate financial performance. But an organization may pursue a social mission that might not pass the standard financial test. The course considers other factors to balance against financial performance, including ways to finance a project that does not pay for itself.

Course Name: Corporate Finance
Instructor: Barry Friedman

The course focuses on the financial decisions of corporations and other organizations, particularly investment and financing decisions. It introduces institutional background on financial markets and instruments. It also considers the applicability of the analytic tools to the nonprofit as well as for profit sectors. The main theme arising in this class is balancing mission and margin. The standard valuation tools of corporate finance evaluate financial performance. But an organization may pursue a social mission that might not pass the standard financial test. The course considers other factors to balance against financial performance, including ways to finance a project that does not pay for itself.

Course Name: Corporate Governance
Instructor: Erich Schumann

The course is designed to introduce students to corporate governance for publicly and privately-held companies. Students discuss roles and responsibilities of the different constituencies in governing a company and how the board of directors, management, shareholders and external auditor should work, how individual goals and external pressure influence individuals, and how their decisions impact a corporation’s failure or success.
Students will be introduced to the framework for corporate governance in the US and compare it to current practices in Germany, China, and Japan. We will gain an understanding of recent SEC, NASDAQ and NYSE regulations related to corporate governance.

Students review recent corporate governance failures and learn about best practices. In the last class, we will simulate the roles of the Board, management and auditors in a real world case.

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Type of Offering

The Heller Distinguished Management Lecture: How Remarkable Women Lead
Date: February, 2010

Presentation by Joanna Barsh, director at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm that advises leading companies on issues of strategy, organization, technology, and operations. In addition to doing consulting work, she spearheads the Centered Leadership Project, whose goal is to develop female leaders. In 2002, Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Barsh to the New York City Commission on Women's Issues. Barsh is the coauthor of How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life. She has received numerous honors, including the Woman of Distinction Award from the Girl Scouts Council and a Making a Difference for Women Award from the National Council for Research on Women. She holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Green Technology

Sponsored by the Heller Career Services Office, featuring Heller alumnus (MBA '08) Nick Addinivola. Nick is currently working as an associate with TD Bank Project Finance, a group focused on green technology. He led a discussion with students interested in learning more about the renewable energy field, including his own experience getting into this sector, recommendations for how best to position yourself for this field and emerging trends for the future.

Mission-Driven Career Panel
Type: Panel
Date: October, 2010

Sponsored by the Heller Career Services Office

The Tipping Point in LGBT Healthcare: When Social Justice and Social Policy Meet the Scientific Method
Date: March, 2010

With keynote speakers Dr. Judy Bradford, Ph.D., Co-Chair, The Fenway Institute, Boston; and Director, Center for Population Research in LGBT Health, including the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; and Dr. Valerie Fein-Zachary, M.D., Board Member, Fenway Community Health; Radiologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Board Member, MassEquality; and Co-Founder, Freedom to Marry. Moderated by Professor Susan P. Curnan. This lecture is part of the Heller School’s new course (HS320f) taught by Professor Susan P. Curnan, which focuses on the last forty years (1969-2010) of social justice and social policy in the American Gay Rights Movement.

Celebrate Heller Authors: Jody Hoffer Gittell
Date: March, 2010

Dean Lisa Lynch invites the Heller community to meet Jody Hoffer Gittell, Associate Professor and author of High Performance Healthcare: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve Quality, Efficiency and Resilience.

Building Sustainability through Social Enterprise
Type: Panel discussion
Date: September, 2009

A panel discussion hosted by the Massachusetts Social Enterprising Networking Group and Net Impact

Featured panelists:

• Jim Cassetta, President & CEO of Work Inc .

Social Enterprise: Facilities Management and Maintenance Inc., Quincy, MA

• Suzanne Kenney, Executive Director, Project Place

Social Enterprises: Project Pepsi, Clean Corners…Bright Hopes, Home Plate

• Audrey Higbee, Vice President of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, Center for Human Development and Director of Riverbend Furniture

Social Enterprise: Riverbend Furniture, Springfield, MA

• Jodi Rosenbaum, Founder and Director of More Than Words Social Enterprise: More Than Words used book store, Waltham, MA

Jobs and Careers for a Social Impact
Type: Career Fair
Date: March, 2010

The Heller Career Service's signature event bringing in mission focused public, private and nonprofit employers. Co-hosted with Brandeis’ undergraduate career center, this event attracts over 60 employers and reaches the entire undergraduate and graduate community.

Looking Forward: Sustainable Development in Haiti
Type: Panel
Date: April, 2010

Panelists include Mary Smith Fawzi, Partners in Health; Dr. Marc Prou, the Haitian Studies Association at University of Massachusetts Boston; Carline Desire, the Association of Haitian Women in Boston; Marion Howard, the Heller School; and Martha Thompson and Gretchen Alther, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Topics include historical and political context, health, poverty, gender, environment, and social justice. Sponsored by the Brandeis Haiti Relief Group, the Global Haiti Initiative, and the Heller Gender Working Group.

SID Friday Speaker Series: Susan Murcott
Date: March, 2010

Susan Murcott, Senior Lecturer in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has done extensive work in the field of water and sanitation in developing countries, including treatment and storage of household drinking water. She has developed and tested household water filters in Haiti, Nepal, Ghana, and other countries, stressing the use of simple technology and locally available materials such as sand and nails to give people access to clean water.

Creating a Game Plan for Business to Transition to a Sustainable Economy
Date: September, 2009

Featuring Jeffrey Hollender, co-founder of Seventh Generation, the world's most trusted brand of authentic, safe, and environmentally-responsible products for a healthy home.

Cosponsored by the Heller School, Net Impact, Brandeis International Business School and the Brandeis Campus Sustainability Initiative

SID Friday Speaker Series: David Branigan
Date: February, 2010

David Branigan is International Director of Bikes Not Bombs. BNB promotes peace and stewardship of the Earth by providing community-based education and assisting development projects with recycled bicycles, related technologies and technical assistance, as concrete alternatives to the militarism, over-consumption, and inequality that breed war and environmental destruction.

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Building Impact
Date: October, 2009

Sponsored by the Heller Career Services Office featuring Executive Director of Building Impact, Lisa Guyon. Building Impact is a social impact organization created in 1998 as a tenant appreciation program in buildings owned and managed by Paradigm Properties. Then called "Community Connection", the building-wide volunteer events and donation drives were, at first, a simple gesture for tenants who leased space in the office buildings that Paradigm Properties managed.

Community Connection events, such as business attire drives and charity bake sales in the lobby, were meant to bring community involvement right to people's doorsteps--to harness the collective energy, resources, and goodwill of companies and individuals that spent so much time in these very office buildings. By connecting over 20 nonprofit organizations with the community of companies and individuals in the buildings, Paradigm successfully mobilized and empowered people who wanted to play a greater role in making their communities stronger.

By 2003, the annual impact of Community Connection was estimated at $300,000, prompting the company to found the nonprofit organization Building Impact. As its own independent nonprofit organization, Building Impact was able to expand the impact of Community Connection beyond the buildings owned or managed by Paradigm Properties.

Today, Building Impact partners with 13 real estate firms across greater Boston. They service 50 buildings, helping over 500 companies and 18,000 people volunteer, donate, and connect to the community, right in the buildings where they work and live. They channel 100% of this goodwill, volunteerism, donations, and interest in giving to their Nonprofit Partner Network, comprised of dozens of excellent organizations around Greater Boston addressing issues such as Youth & Education, Hunger & Housing, Environment, Job Training, Literacy, and Community Health.

From one office building in downtown Boston, to 50 buildings as far north as Lowell, as west as Southboro, and as far south as Norwood, Building Impact is creating a large-scale network of corporate citizens and civic participants...building by building.

SID Friday Speaker Series: Don Edwards
Date: April, 2010

Don Edwards is founder and CEO of Justice and Sustainability Associates, based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to help community and neighborhood residents, government, and developers reach just and sustainable agreements about land use. Mr. Edwards specializes in multi-stakeholder agenda setting and decision-making processes. He also serves on the faculty of the DC Neighborhood College of George Washington University's Center for Excellence in Public Leadership. Mariah Morales, MA '07, and an Associate at JSA, will accompany Mr. Edwards.

Building a Mission Driven, For Profit Organization and Growing it from $1M in Annual Revenue to $28M in Just Five Years
Date: September, 2010

What is a Mission Driven, For Profit Organization? Why create it? What are the major challenges in sustaining a mission driven, for profit organization? What does a business plan for this kind of growth look like? Marc Fenton, President, Public Partnerships, LLC, will present as the first speaker in the Inaugural Executive in Residence Program sponsored by Heller’s Office of Career Services.

Conscious Capitalism
Date: February, 2010

Featuring Dr. Rajendra Sisodia, Professor of Marketing at Bentley University and author of "Firms of Endearment"

Sponsored by Net Impact

Challenges to Humanitarian Action
Date: April, 2010

The Schneider Institutes for Health Policy and the Institute for Global Health and Development presentDr. Unni Karunakara, president-elect for Doctors Without Borders, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Dr. Karunakara is assistant professor at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. He went on his first humanitarian mission to Ethiopia with MSF in 1995. Dr. Karunakara worked in the medical department of MSF's Amsterdam office for several years and was the medical director for MSF's Access to Essential Medicines Campaign. He is currently vice president of the MSF's US Board of Directors and is president-elect of MSF's International Council.

Navigating the Nonprofit Sector
Type: Panel
Date: September, 2010

Featuring Third Sector New England

2011 Distinguished Management Lecture
Date: April, 2011

Using the Master’s Tools to Create Social Change:

The Revolutionary Views of Mahatma Gandhi and Audre Lorde as they Apply to the Challenges Facing Low-Income Communities

Featuring Elyse Cherry, CEO of Boston Community Capital

As Wall Street begins to show signs of a recovery, families, small businesses and communities across America are still struggling to regain their footing in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Although some economists have declared that the worst of the recession is behind us, unemployment remains near double digits, housing prices remain low, and foreclosures continue to climb. Subprime lending excesses and the housing foreclosure crisis have had a devastating and disproportionate impact on low-income communities -- destabilizing families and neighborhoods and threatening to erode decades of hard-won economic gain. Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are working to address these challenges, providing innovative financing to create and preserve housing, jobs and opportunities for communities underserved by mainstream financial markets.

Elyse Cherry will explain Boston Community Capital’s vision and strategies for

· helping to build healthy communities where low income people live and work,

· aligning capital with social, economic, and political justice, and

· creating an inclusive prosperity that ensures that low-income and low-wealth people and communities have access to affordable, responsible financial products and services.

She will describe the organization’s Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods (SUN) Initiative, a groundbreaking foreclosure relief effort that brings together Wall Street and Main Street – business experience and community values – to help families facing foreclosure-related evictions remain in their homes. And she will explain how effective use of “the master’s tools” is critical to solving today’s most pressing social and economic problems, and becoming the change we wish to see.

Over the Horizon: Opportunities in Clean Energy Trade
Type: Panel discussion
Date: February, 2011

Co sponsored by Net Impact. The event featured a presentation by a student panel whose research focuses on global clean energy, followed by a response from a panel of local executives and officials on global clean energy trade. A networking reception followed.

100th Annual International Women's Day Celebration: Women Changing Our World
Date: March, 2010

Sponsored by the Heller Gender Working Group to celebrate International Women's Day, an event that unites women and men of all backgrounds to honor women's hard-won accomplishments and to acknowledge the path left ahead of us to traverse towards equity. An open mic opportunity will be available to share poetry, dance or stories on particular women's struggles or accomplishments. Everyone who purchased an International Women's Day Celebration T-Shirt is asked to wear it to the celebration.

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High Quality Relationships, Psychological Safety and Learning from Failures in Work Relationships
Author(s): Jody Hoffer Gittell

How can organizations support employees to engage in learning from failures? In this paper, we draw on the concept of high-quality relationships to explore the relational underpinnings of learning from failures in organizations. We focus on relational c

Journal Title: Journal of Organizational Behavior Volume: 30 Edition: 6 Page Numbers: 709-729
Nursing Home Work Practices and Certified Nursing Assistants' Job Satisfaction
Author(s): Christine Bishop

Purpose: To estimate the impact of nursing home work practices, specifically compensation and working conditions, on job satisfaction of nursing assistants employed in nursing homes. Design and Methods: Data are from the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Su

Journal Title: The Gerontologist Volume: 49 Edition: 5 Page Numbers: 611-622
The Relation Between Forest Clearance and Household Income Among Native Amazonians: Results from the Tsimane Amazonian Panel Study, Bolivia
Author(s): Ricardo Godoy

The Amazon rain forest harbors some of the world's richest biological diversity. During the twentieth century, two types of actors cleared that forest: native Amazonians and outside encroachers. Of the two actors, we know more about what drives outside en

Journal Title: Ecological Economics Volume: 68 Edition: 6 Page Numbers: 1864-1871