Location

Registration for the Second Global Forum for Business as an Agent of World Benefit has opened online at www.globalforum2009.org.

What: “Manage by Designing in an Era of Massive Innovation”

Why: To unite design thinking with sustainable business practice and education

How: A three-day interactive summit with large-group interactive change methods, break-out sessions, and expert-led discussions

When: June 2-5, 2009

Where: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 

 

Participating companies: Ford, Cisco, Patagonia, Herman Miller, Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble, Dow Chemical, and more

Participating business schools: Weatherhead, Wharton, Kellogg, Rotman, Copenhagen, Haas, Said, Rotterdam, McGill, and more

 

Facilitated by: David Cooperrider, the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Weatherhead School of Management, co-founder and co-chair of BAWB, and co-creator of Appreciative Inquiry

Speakers: Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact.  Jeffrey Sachs of The Earth Institute.  Cradle-to-cradle architect Bill McDonough.  Biomimicry expert Janine Benyus.  McGill's Professor Nancy Adler.  Interface CEO, Ray Anderson.

Special sessions: A one-day Executive Sustainable Value workshop with Sustainable Value author Chris Laszlo.  An evening session designed by McGill’s Professor Nancy Adler 

Co-convened by: The Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, the United Nations Global Compact, and the Academy of Management

Sponsored by: The Fetzer Institute, Fairmount Minerals, and CNI: The Brazilian Federation of Industry

Major ouput of the 2006 Global Forum: The United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), an initiative launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in July 2007 and signed by more than 200 organizations worldwide