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Penny Pritzker's Latest Challenge: Helping Fix Public Schools

Public education that prepares a workforce for tomorrow's needs is the cause that most challenges her, said Penny Pritzker, JD/MBA '84, the 2011 recipient of the business school's Arbuckle Award.

Researchers Develop Low-cost Medical Ventilators for Global Disasters

After learning that his hospital would be short ventilators in the event of an influenza pandemic, Matthew Callaghan sketched out concepts for a less expensive ventilator on a napkin at a lunchtime meeting with a fellow physician.

Market-Minded Development

In 2002 Jacqueline Novogratz, MBA '91, traveled to Arusha, Tanzania, to meet Anuj Shah, CEO of A to Z Textile Mills. A joint partnership between Sumitomo Chemical, ExxonMobil, and UNICEF had been forged to develop a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net for malaria prevention.

Gray Matters

As the recession makes it harder for workers to become retired persons, AARP has sought fresh leadership with an executive who broke color barriers in the 1960s. A. Barry Rand, MBA '73, aims to influence a politicized nation on the rights of people as they age.

Echoing Green Fellow Elevates Waste Workers––and the Environment––in India

Deepa Gangwani, MBA ’04, created Together as One (TaO), a social enterprise that generates income opportunities for marginalized communities in India while providing communities with incentives to sort and segregate waste.

Helping Africans Jump-start Their Industries

Bruce McNamer, MBA '96, examines how a nonprofit’s work in Mozambique and in other developing countries is showing businesses how to break the cycle of poverty.

Viral Good

Three students, Lavanya Ashok, Aastha Gupta, and Karla Gallardo — from Jennifer Aaker’s Power of Social Technology (PoST) course — leverage their class assignment of creating a viral video to support Embrace, a social entreprise created in Jim Patell's Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability class.

MBA Class of 1980 Pools Funds and Knowledge to Fight Poverty

Project Redwood, a new venture philanthropy fund of the Stanford GSB Class of 1980, has distributed $400,000 over the past 3 years to organizations that use entrepreneurial approaches to fight poverty.

Turning on the Light for Customers on Tiny Incomes

[photo - Sam Goldman & Ned Tozun - cofounders of D.light]

Sam Goldman, MBA '07, CEO of D.light Design, finds himself running an international company whose customers are some of the poorest people in China, India, or Tanzania. The firm grew out of the Business School course Design for Extreme Affordability.

It’s About the Destination

In her autobiography, The Blue Sweater, Acumen Fund founder and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz (MBA ’91) tells the story of her quest to apply business principles to social change. Pamela Hartigan, the director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, reviews her book in Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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