{"id":913,"date":"2009-11-06T15:05:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/magazines\/vanderbilt-business\/?p=913"},"modified":"2015-07-07T20:19:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:19:04","slug":"the-business-of-a-better-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/the-business-of-a-better-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Business of a Better World"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1013\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1013\" title=\"Schorr\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/legacy\/2009\/11\/Schorr.jpg\" alt=\"Schorr is planning to launch the Vanderbilt Center for Business &amp; Society, which will promote corporate responsibility, sustainability and social entrepreneurship.\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Schorr is planning to launch the Vanderbilt Center for Business &amp; Society, which will promote corporate responsibility, sustainability and social entrepreneurship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jim Schorr\u2019s first year as an MBA student was a transformative one. He had enrolled at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University expecting to pursue a career in international business, but a class called Business &amp; Its Environment and guest lectures by a couple of dynamic social entrepreneurs\u2014Ben Cohen, Co-founder of Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s, and Anita Roddick, Founder of the Body Shop\u2014pointed him in a new direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe combination of the class and those guest speakers introduced me to the idea that business could be a powerful force for social impact and injected a greater sense of purpose into my career path,\u201d says Schorr, Clinical Professor of Management.<\/p>\n<p>This newfound inspiration led Schorr to co-found Students for Responsible Business, which later evolved into Net Impact, an international nonprofit organization that educates and equips students to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world through business. Owen hosted Net Impact\u2019s annual conference in 2007, attracting more than 1,800 MBAs from all over the world. Schorr continues to play a key role in the organization\u2019s success, serving as Board Chair.<\/p>\n<p>At Owen, Schorr is working toward launching the Vanderbilt Center for Business &amp; Society, which echoes his previous work at University of California, Berkeley\u2019s Center for Responsible Business. The objective of the center is to enrich the student experience by developing courses, programs, events and other content in three areas: corporate responsibility, sustainability and social entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy role here is to build on what Jim Bradford, Bart Victor and others have been doing at Owen for years,\u201d Schorr says. \u201cAs enthusiastic as I am about this new initiative, I know that it wouldn\u2019t be possible without their groundwork.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Schorr\u2019s first year as an MBA student was a transformative one. He had enrolled at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University expecting to pursue a career in international business, but a class called Business &amp; Its Environment and guest lectures by a couple of dynamic social entrepreneurs\u2014Ben Cohen, Co-founder of Ben &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,10],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-departments","category-faculty-in-focus","tag-fall2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8909,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/8909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}