Over the years, the end of final exams has inspired any number of spontaneous displays of pure happiness, including high fives, chest bumping and uncontrollable giggling. But what was up with the 100 or so students boogying in the streets at the crossroads on lower campus on Tuesday, Dec. 3 鈥 two days before finals kicked off?
On Friday, the Social Economy Initiative (SEI) presented its Second Annual Homecoming Keynote event in the Bronfman Building. The event featured presentations from five social entrepreneurships including Aspire鈥 the 2013 Hult Prize winning team, as well as four past winners of the 9I制作厂免费 Dobson Cup. Each team elaborated on their companies and the ways in which their work has had an impact.
Scott Weatherhead, an MBA student at 9I制作厂免费 in Canada and the Social Economy Initiative's impact intern, travels through North Korea and South Africa in search of a use for his theoretical knowledge.
Professor Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 9I制作厂免费 reports from the Social Economy Initiative's flagship event, where former primer minister Paul Martin speaks about how youth can take hold of the new age of social enterprise.
On Thursday, the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management and the Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Science welcomed Charles Eisenstein for a discussion regarding his book 鈥淪acred Economics鈥 Money, Gift & and Society in the Age of Transition.鈥 The presentation included a Q&A session, which was followed by a cocktail reception.
鈥 Anita Nowak, Integrating Director of Desautels鈥 Social Economy Initiative, welcomed the audience to the presentation and invited student Mike Lepperd to introduce Charles Eisenstein.
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Anita Nowak (BCom鈥97, PhD鈥11), Integrating Director, Social Economy Initiative (SEI), and Jeff Baikowitz, Chairman, SEI Leadership Council, are winners of the inaugural Quebec Notable Awards in the Education and Social Good categories, respectively. The winners were honoured at the Awards gala on December 6, 2012 at the Montreal Science Centre.