Nestlé's CSV Forum 2014

On October 9th 2014, the HSG Hub São Paulo together with Nestlé Brazil coordinated the live transmission of the CSV (Creating Shared Value) Conference that took place in Lausanne, Switzerland. The live broadcast of the afternoon session was at the social headquarter of Nestlé Brazil in São Paulo.  Exchange students from the University of St. Gallen, as well as students and professors from partner universities, such as Insper, University of São Paulo and FGV attended the event. 

Questions could be sent by emails or via social media directly to the speakers. That way the participants of the event in São Paulo could actively take part to the discussions. On the topic of sustainable agriculture and supply chain, Johannes Boch from the HSG Hub São Paulo asked the speakers how they imagined a structure of public private partnership and collaboration in governance that creates impact and whether they had some best case examples.  During the same panel, students from the University of São Paulo sent a question to José López, Executive Vice President of Nestlé, about the concept of fairness when talking about shared value. The last panel dealt with the question of water scarcity and potential solutions. Here, Johannes Boch directed a question at Mr. Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of Nestlé, on how a world of a "self-sufficient" man who is consciously using resources is in agreement with growth strategies and capitalism and whether he thinks that big cooperations need a business model that focuses on sustainable economic development.

The event was an excellent opportunity to bring academia and business closer and to further strengthen the connections of the University of São Paulo with local Brazilian entities. 

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Attendees

During the conference

Representatives of the different institutes

SITAWI - Novo chamada

Chamada para Empreendimentos Socioambientais! O novo deadline para inscrição dos projetos é dia 12/10 (domingo)

WomanChangeMakers Fellowship Position

Program: WomanChangeMakers Fellowship Brazil

Position: Country Manager (Consultant/Part-time/Long-term mandate)

Country of work and residence: Brazil – Based preferably in Sao Paulo

Only candidates residing in Brazil with fluent Portuguese and a solid Brazilian network will be considered for this position.

Preferred starting date: 3 November 2014

Pensum: 30 hours/week

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Opportunity:

WomanChangeMakers is a Fellowship program of the Womanity Foundation that focuses on identifying, supporting and connecting social entrepreneurs (men or women) who head organizations that work for women’s empowerment, address systemic gender inequalities and positively transform society (www.womenchangemakers.org). By focusing on how social entrepreneurs solve problems and help build their communities we aim at helping them catalyze their social impact and scale up their organization.

We believe in the value of anchoring our WomenChangeMakers program in the specific reality of the target countries (presently Brazil and India). Together with our WomenChangeMakers Fellows we elaborate goals that will motivate local professional partners to support the Fellows’ development and growth. Local and global collaborations with thought leaders, social and business entrepreneurs, as well philanthropic, social investment and academic institutions are core to our approach.

In order to grow our team and further consolidate the WomanChangeMakers (WCM) program in Brazil, the Womanity Foundation is looking for a part-time Country Manager to implement all aspects of our program and enhance the impact of our Fellows. The Country Manager will be tasked with elaborating strategies of growth with and for our Fellows in Brazil; assisting them in identifying their key needs to realize such growth; creating strategic collaborations with relevant professional experts and partners; and supporting the Womanity Foundation’s efforts in measuring and communicating the impact of our Fellows and of our program. The new Country Manager will be required to significantly expand the existing strategic partnerships and opportunities for our Fellows, and to animate the Fellowship to the benefit of its members.

Responsibilities include: assessing WCM Fellow’s needs and identifying adequate solutions to address these needs; engaging experts and professional partners; facilitating and strengthening the relationship between the WCM Fellows and the professional program partners; cultivating the relationship with existing and newly acquired WCM professional program partners; developing a results-based action plan for the WCM Fellows and the WCM program in Brazil; supporting monitoring and evaluation efforts and inputting to an impact-based reporting process on progress made by the Fellows and the WCM Fellowship program; building a pipeline of candidates for the WCM Fellowship; representing WCM in the relevant fora and meetings with the aim of increasing its visibility and connections for the benefit of its Fellows and of their social impact; organizing events and meetings as relevant for the Fellows, professional partners and other stakeholders; producing quarterly newsletter and other relevant PR materials and communications.

The Country Manager will report to the Womanity Foundation’s Executive Director.

Location, Qualifications, Skills and Core Competencies Required:

The person may be located in preferably Sao Paulo (or Rio de Janeiro) and should possess excellent spoken and written Portuguese and English language skills. The candidate will have demonstrated a passion for social change, as well as the ability to work with a cross-cultural and international team. We are looking for a pro-active individual with high motivation to work towards supporting social entrepreneurs who accelerate progress for women.

Only candidates residing in Brazil with fluent Portuguese and a solid ties to the Brazilian social development sector and associated networks will be considered for this position.

Competencies and Skills required:

Minimum of 5 years experience working in the social development sector (mid-level), preferably with an experience in the women’s empowerment field;

Extensive and positive relations with Brazilian citizen, corporate and public sectors;

Excellent skills in building partnerships and interfacing with external stakeholders;

Strong communicator and persuasive deal-maker;

Strong writing and PR skills;

Excellent organizational skills;

Experience in reporting, monitoring and measuring social impact and reporting;

Ability to work in a virtual team (via skype, e-mail etc.);

Travel availability, in particular within Brazil.

The Womanity Foundation offers a competitive monthly salary for 30 hours x week. The salary offer will reflect the applicant’s experience and qualifications. The Womanity Foundation invites applications from candidates regardless race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or religion.

Application Process:

Please email your resume and a motivation letter, outlining how your skills and experience meet the qualifications of the position and what motivates you to apply, to Andrea Piazza, andrea@womanity.org, subject line “WCM Country Manager Brazil”. Please also include three references.

Application deadline: 10th October 2014

Chamada para Empreendimentos Socioambientais

Ótima oportunidade para empreendedores acessarem recursos financeiros para seus empreendimentos sociais e ambientais! Evento gratuito

Este evento faz parte da Chamada para Empreendimentos Socioambientais. Uma convocação pensada para organizações e negócios socioambientais – com ou sem fins lucrativos – que enfrentam desafios de financiamento, geralmente maiores do que empresas tradicionais. 

Rio de Janeiro: 24 de setembro

São Paulo: 25 de setembro

Os especialistas convidados são:

Débora Basso, Coord. de Busca & Seleção de Negócios da Artemisia

Daniel Izzo, Sócio co-fundador da VOX Capital

Leonardo Letelier, CEO e fundador da SITAWI - Finanças do Bem

Esta chamada visa apresentar diversos tipos de soluções financeiras para essas organizações, em especial o empréstimo socioambiental. Acesse e entenda mais www.chamada2014sitawi.net

Thanks to Nicolaj Tofte Brenneche for the contribution on "Sustainable Business Education"

Thanks to Nicolaj Tofte Brenneche for the contribution on "Sustainable Business Education"

As a researcher of the integration of humanities, arts and social sciences in management education, I’m always interested in how people think and talk about change. And transformation, innovation and change are very much in the air in higher education today, and especially in business education. Management educators face a host of pressures – including a growing chorus of critics, demanding that business schools better prepare the next generation of business leaders to engage with the pressing societal issues of our times.

As a European participant in the Aspen Undergraduate Business Education Consortium, I had a unique opportunity to get a first-hand look at how the relationship between business education and society is being discussed in the U.S., and how this differs from the European discourse. Distinguishing how American and the European educators think and talk about change in management education gives us the opportunity to build on the best of each approach.

Simply put, in a European context, we tend to focus on institutional change as a way to renew business school education. In the U.S., emphasis is put more on individuals making changes.

The focus on entrepreneurial initiatives within U.S. business schools comes with several advantages. A remarkable accomplishment by a business leader, a professor, a dean or a student inspires us all – and makes for a great story. Moreover, entrepreneurial initiatives can be an effective avenue to drive change – especially when faculty members are faced with the bureaucracy of large academic institutions. At times, however, the benefits of celebrating individual accomplishment come at the cost of losing sight of higher order engagement.

As it happens, an analogy can be found in what we actually teach students. Many business ethics courses and textbooks are guided by an aspiration to strengthen the moral integrity of the individual business student. While certainly an admirable goal, this approach risks neglecting rigorous investment in learning the ethical wisdom built into how institutions have been created, reformed and dismantled over time (in e.g. the field of accountancy, regulation of financial markets, labor union structures, environmental acts, and many others). We need to attend to such collective levels of engagement not only in how we teach business students about how business and society are intertwined, but also in how we ourselves problematize and pursue reform agendas in the business education sector.  

We might, therefore, attend more ambitiously to the many questions pertaining to an institutional level of engagement including the way we construct systems of quality assessment of business education, how we organize research environments, how we evaluate career performances to embrace more interdisciplinary and problem-based research agendas, and so forth. We need to ask ourselfes how the institutional frameworks of business schools today help deliver on rethinking the commitment of business education to creating societal values? How might we conceptualize such values? How does the conventional ‘core curriculum’ of business education reflect such commitments? What are the main levers of institutional commitment that will push systemic innovation?

In Europe, such questions tend to be more frequently asked than I found in (my admittedly brief encounter with) the U.S. discourse. Originating from Denmark and now living and working in Switzerland, I have been exposed to business school settings marked by clear societal commitments. This is immediately visible in a high share of tax funding and political involvement in the strategic governance of the business schools. But more profoundly, the commitment to societal values reflects deeply rooted ideas about the political, cultural and economic intertwinement of business and society. A flipside of the coin is a tendency to become custodians of tradition and convention rather than curating new ideas and programmes. We too struggle with balancing entrepreneurial action with societal cohesion.

Juxtaposing the U.S. and European debates on the future of business education, it is clear to me that we depart from very different traditions and cultures. Historically, many impulses of business school reform have travelled from the U.S. to Europe. However, at the current moment, marked in part by the Aspen Undergraduate Business Education Consortium, a new type of conversation across the Atlantic might be staged. In such a conversation, the U.S. spirit of entrepreneurship and the European commitment to values of society might prove to be a powerful combination – allowing us to pursue the revitalization of business education as both an entrepreneurial and societal project. The stakes are too high to choose just one approach and ignore the other.

Announcing today: WEF Report "From Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy" & Mapping of the Impact Investing Sector in Brazil

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that our initiative, the "Impact Investing Latin America Knowledge Platform" (IILA) was chosen as a best practice example in the most recent Impact Investing report "From Ideas to Practice, Pilots to Strategy" published by the World Economic Forum.

The featured article examines the question of "How Universities Can Promote Multidisciplinary and Cross-cultural Collaboration in Impact Investing" by exploring the case of the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland) and Insper (Brazil). Besides describing the role that universities can play, the article gives insights into the current front-line projects and initiatives that are carried out through the Impact Investing Latin America Knowledge Platform (IILA) in Brazil. In the article you will also find our thoughts on the challenges of a cross-cultural cooperation and recommendations for other business schools that are interested to be active in Impact Investing.

For more information on the Brazilian Impact Investing market, check out the "Mapping of the Impact Investing Sector in Brazil", a study prepared by ANDE, LGT-VP, Quintessa and the University of St.Gallen.

The study was also covered by the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo "Cresce investimento de impacto no Brasil" (in Portuguese).

With our warmest regards and wishes for a successful week

Angélica Rotondaro
Johannes Boch
Paulina Widmer

É com prazer que a anunciamos o lançamento da Chamada para Empreendimentos Socioambientais 2014 do SITAWI. Acesse www.chamada2014SITAWI.net

A Chamada2014 é uma iniciativa que visa divulgar alternativas de acesso a recursos financeiros para organizações com missão social e/ou ambiental.
Adicionalmente, busca identificar organizações e/ou negócios que possam se beneficiar do apoio da SITAWI, em especial por meio do Empréstimo Social com aconselhamento estratégico.

No site da chamada, organizações e negócios socioambientais (com e sem fins lucrativos) encontram mais informações sobre os instrumentos financeiros que podem apoiar o desenvolvimento e a operação de sua organização.

Organizações que identificarem a necessidade de recursos para alavancar seu impacto social ou ambiental, poderão se inscrever na Chamada2014 até dia 05 de outubro.
As inscrições serão analisadas pela SITAWI, que entrará em contato com as organizações para indicar o instrumento de apoio mais adequado a cada uma delas, seja ele disponibilizado pela SITAWI ou por algum de seus parceiros.