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    Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

    Achieve universal primary education

    Promote gender equality and empower women

    Reduce child mortality

    Improve maternal health

    Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

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Gary, et al

take a look at
http://worldbenefit.case.edu/newsletter/?idNewsletter=128&idHeading=44&idNews=470

From the front page

B·A·W·B Summit Update: An Exciting New Partnership with Net Impact January 24, 2006 Exciting new projects and collaborations continue to develop as a result of our summit held last October.  In January, the Center welcomed not only the New Year, but also a new partnership with Net Impact. An organization with over 100 chapters, Net Impact is a network of more than 13,000 MBA students from around the globe who are dedicated to becoming the new-generation of business leaders committed to using the power of business to improve the world.  Liz Maw, the Executive Director of the organization, attended the 2005 B·A·W·B summit and conversations about a possible collaboration between our two organizations began to emerge.  In the beginning of January, B·A·W·B signed a partnership agreement with Net Impact to co-run a year long, two-phased, business-in-society story competition.

and at: http://worldbenefit.case.edu/newsletter/?idNewsletter=128&idHeading=44

B·A·W·B Summit Update: An Exciting New Partnership with Net Impact Tuesday, January 24, 2006 Exciting new projects and collaborations continue to develop as a result of our summit held last October. In January, the Center welcomed not only the New Year, but also a new partnership with Net Impact. An organization with over 100 chapters, Net Impact is a network of more than 13,000 MBA students from around the globe who are dedicated to becoming the new-generation of business leaders committed to using the power of business to improve the world.

Also, I think that KaosPilot (Denmark) has a business management focus in this direction.

This is an area that I find fascinating, useful and in line with my own personal values.

best regards

Alice Macpherson
PD & PLA Coordinator
Kwantlen University College
www.kwantlen.ca/pdss
604 599-3040

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato

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Alice,

What is an Agent for World Benefit?

Best,

Gary

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Colleagues

To take an appreciative approach, it seems that this is the perfect place
to inject our stories of research and scholarship on teaching and learning
in management education, as well as the scholarship of integration where
we make visible the impact of community on education and education on
community.

What are the education questions in this discipline that people are
working on that relate to being Agents for World Benefit?

best regards

Alice Macpherson
PD & PLA Coordinator
Kwantlen University College
www.kwantlen.ca/pdss
604 599-3040

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of
conversation." - Plato





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It's somewhat of a shame that the Forum is set up to focus only on
management research and fails to include the role that management
education
can play as an agent of world benefit.  Inclusion of sessions centered on
creative pedagogies that link business students cross-nationally, that
bring business education to under-served populations abroad, that share
best teaching/learning practices, etc would seem just as critical to the
goals of the Forum as what they are soliciting.

Gary Coombs

Jerrold Strong, M.A. 
Adjunct Faculty, Organizational Leadership

Chapman University

"Change is Inevitable, Growth is Optional"

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Gary Lundquist wrote:

Alice,

 

Thanks for the link.  The eight goals are significant.  Any compassionate human can find ample place for their energies.

    Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

    Achieve universal primary education

    Promote gender equality and empower women

    Reduce child mortality

    Improve maternal health

    Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

    Ensure environmental sustainability
    Develop a global partnership for development

If I were teaching how to become an Agent for World Benefit, I'd be concerned that each of these address symptoms.  I haven't found strategies for achieving these goals, just tactics for campaigns.

 

Strategically, eradicating hunger would seem to involve reducing or reversing population growth.  Feeding people isn't the problem as much as avoiding the 50% growth in mouths expected by 2050. 

 

It isn't my intention to open dialogs or debates about social issues, but dialog on what a teaching focus might be for creating Agents for World Benefit. 

 

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I agree with Gary that dealing with symptoms seems to be the focus in the goals, though I disagree with what Gary says is the cause.  Population growth isn't the problem, and has never been the problem since that thought became prevalent decades ago.  Many nations and particulary the United States produces more than enough food to feed the hungry of the world.  The problem is one of distribution, not population.

 

The above listed goals are worthy to address certainly, but unless there is some way to address the ego centric autocrats that rule the vast majority of poor and undeveloped countries you have no solution, or even a place to start writing curricula.  Religious differences, which Gary addresses again correctly, is also problematic.  Strategies and action plans need to be considered to reduce barrieres to the political, social and religious ills of the world.  HIV/AIDS, particularly in Africa, may be addressed effectively when the social systems of that continent recognize that the male can't screw around with every female that is willing while the females would like a faithful male companion (come to think about it that is the same problem in the US).  Moral standards, character ethic, integrated in solid educational systems that all have access to is a necessary piece to raise more awareness of one's own dilemmas and hope to change.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Jerry

 

Jerrold Strong, M.A. 
Adjunct Faculty, Organizational Leadership

Chapman University

"Change is Inevitable, Growth is Optional"