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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Thursday
    November 5
    2020

    GRI/Enel Africa Regional Roundtable

    Transparency and effective partnerships for action towards the SDGs in a COVID-19 world
    By joining this GRI webinar you agree to the Terms and Conditions as listed on https://globalreportingnews.org/p/4J5-GRF/tcs

    Time: 11:00 AM in Harare, Pretoria / 5:00 AM EST

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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Thursday
    November 5
    2020

    The Road to Gender Transformative Finance – Research and Evidence From East and Southern Africa

    The University of Southern California Center for Economic and Social Research, the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) are delighted to invite you to a webinar on gender transformative finance across East and Southern Africa focusing on unpacking effects and directions for new research. Researchers will be presenting their research questions, implementation challenges and findings across Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. IDRC will be sharing their perspective and research agenda for 2021.

    Time: 6:00 PM Nairobi / 11:00 AM EST

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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Thursday
    November 5
    2020

    A Virtual Fireside Chat With HBS’s Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi

    Note: This program is a Live Webinar and Q&A that is accessible from any web-enabled computer or mobile device. Premium members of Impact Entrepreneur get complimentary admission to all live and archived webinars.

    Teaching Impact Investing at Harvard with Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi

    Impact investing, and sustainable investing more broadly, has been making significant strides not only in capital markets and in the world of philanthropy, but in higher education as well. Increasing numbers of graduate and undergraduate schools, often led by intrepid pioneers located in business schools, are establishing courses that introduce students to the many aspects of the triple bottom line — from democratizing impact investing and financial inclusion to private/public markets and mission-related investing, to measuring and managing impact.

    Under the leadership of Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi, Harvard Business School has launched an impact investing course focusing on “the intersection of investing/finance and key global challenges, guided for example by the Sustainable Development Goals, including climate, gender equality, and poverty reduction.” In this live webinar and audience Q&A, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes Harvard’s Vikram Gandhi and Shawn Cole to discuss the course and how it fits into HBS’s evolving relationship to mission-driven business and investing, and whether (and how) it reflects an accelerating wave of transformative change in academia’s engagement with sustainability.

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    SHAWN COLE is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, social enterprise, and impact investing. He has worked in China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, and Vietnam. He is an affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. He is on the board of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, as the co-chair for research.

    Before joining the Harvard Business School, Shawn worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the economic research department. He has served on the Boston Federal Reserve’s Community Development Research Advisory Council, served as an external advisor to the Gates Foundation, and was the chair of the endowment management committee of the Telluride Association, a non-profit educational organization. He is a cofounder and board chair of a non-profit, Precision Agriculture for Development. Shawn received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, where he was an NSF and Javits Fellow, and an A.B. in Economics and German Literature from Cornell University. His work on insurance earned the 2015 “Shin Research Excellence Award;” in 2015 he was also named given a “Faculty Pioneer Award” from the Aspen Institute.

    VIKRAM GANDHI is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He has developed and teaches a new course, Investing – Risk, Return, and Impact, in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. He also teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, and FIELD Global Immersion in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program, as well as various Executive Education Programs. In addition, Vikram is a visiting faculty member of Schwarzman College and Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is a member of the Impact Co-Laboratory focusing on research in the area of Impact Investing.

    Vikram is the Founder of Asha Impact, an impact investing platform and is a Senior Advisor to The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) since 1997 and has been a part of the New York, Hong Kong and Mumbai chapters. He has spent 23 years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School (Class of 1989) where he was designated a Baker Scholar, and a B.Com with high distinction from the University of Mumbai. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

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    LAURIE LANE-ZUCKER is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network, a 26,000 member global network of entrepreneurs, investors and scholars. Impact Entrepreneur is a cornerstone field building, research and educational player in the social impact space, and a consulting company that works with blended value companies, impact investors and academic institutions. For nearly 30 years, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability, social enterprise and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization, Orion Society, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank, the Triad Institute, and Hotfrog, a Founding B Corporation, GIIRS Pioneer Company, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange.

    Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact, having published, edited and written the introductions for celebrated works by Wendell Berry, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez and David James Duncan. He is the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing, and is the co-founder of the Place-Based Education movement, having coined the term with Dr. John Elder, and published, edited and written the foreword for the first book on that growing pedagogy. His current writing projects include two chapters (both co-written) for a forthcoming textbook, Sustainability: Business and Investment Implications by World Scientific Publishing. Laurie is also a lifelong student of world wisdom traditions and is the former Executive Director of Seven Pillars House of Wisdom, a nonprofit organization founded by Pir Zia Inayat Khan focused on advancing wisdom in service of social and environmental healing.

    Impact Entrepreneur’s Luminarias Webinar Series features reflective conversations with the leading lights in impact investing and entrepreneurship.

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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Thursday
    November 5
    2020

    New Alternatives To the Silicon Valley Business Model

    “Business can be one of the most effective forms of Activism. Business can be one of the most expressive forms of Art. ” Dr. Melanie Rieback, a successful Social Entrepreneur and Professional Hacker, will talk about nonprofit businesses.

    Dr. Melanie Rieback is a leading cybersecurity and social entrepreneur working to show how business can be an effective for of activism. During this talk she will expose the failings of the steroid induced silicon valley model of artificial growth, and alternative models

    Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST

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