| 11 a.m. |
Check-in, continental breakfast
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| 11:45 a.m. |
Keynote speaker Chris Laszlo '80
- "Sustainability for Competitive Advantage"
The environmental and social impact a business has on the world around it is a rapidly growing source of competitive advantage. CEOs of some of the world's leading companies are now tackling global challenges such as climate change and the widening rich-poor gap, not as cost constraints but as business opportunities. Based on his new book, Sustainable Value, published by Stanford University Press in February 2008, Chris Laszlo, Class of '80, will discuss sustainability-driven business leadership and emerging sustainability practices based on case studies at DuPont, Wal-Mart and other global industry leaders.
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| 1 p.m. |
Concurrent panels
- "How Venture Capitalists and Investment Managers View Entrepreneurs for Environmental Sustainability"
- "Corporate America: What's Green Got to Do with It?"
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| 2:15 p.m. |
Roundtable discussions
- Sohail Bengali '79: Forming an International Private Equity Fund? The Nuts and Bolts of Achieving Success
- Carr Everbach, professor of engineering: What Swarthmore Should, and Should Not, Be Doing to Green Itself
- Pete Hamilton '97: Can Capitalism Save the World? Empirical Evidence Presented
- Claire Hartten '91: Stimulating and Humanizing the Process of Connecting Thinking with Doing: Enabling Eco-Entrepreneurs Using Iterative Design Methods
- David Hochschild '92: Getting Clean Energy Policy Passed
- Bob McKinstry '75: The Role of State Efforts in the National Climate Change Program
- Lisa Diaz Nash '80: Blue Is the New Green: Attacking the Global Water Crisis with the Mind of an Entrepreneur
- Ruth Perry '78: The Entrepreneurial Spirit Within A Corporate Environment
- Praful Saklani '95: Globalization and Emerging Markets: a Ground-level View of Entrepreneurialism and Economic Growth
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| 3:15 p.m. |
Final panel
- "Carbon Trap Technologies: A Case Study"
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| 4:30 p.m. |
Reception
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