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David and Goliath Revisited: Partnerships between Social Entrepreneurs and Big Business

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Session Description

Location: Lecture Theatre 4
How do successful partnerships between social entrepreneurs and big business get going?  What are the essential building blocks involved?  What are the tensions that might arise moving forward?  This session is one of two sessions that will examine four different partnerships from the perspective of each partner. Be prepared to learn, laugh and be inspired to stick with or kick-start a new collaboration.

Time & Location

Time:
14:30 - 16:00, Thursday, March 29, 2012 BST
Speakers
  • Speaker
    Managing Partner, PTI Advisors
    Paul is an evangelist and a practitioner of social innovation. Having worked for iconic companies like Gateway, Compaq and Hewlett Packard, he’s been on the front line of technology’s impact on society and planet. He’s experienced the power of business, government, and civil society working…
  • Speaker
    Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer, Embrace
    Jane Chen is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Embrace Innovations, a social enterprise that aims to help the 20 million premature and low birth weight babies born every year, through a low cost infant warmer. The Embrace Infant Warmer costs less than 1% of a traditional incubator, and…
  • Speaker
    Gene Falk is one of the few people to lead major ventures in both Fortune 500 companies and the non-profit sector. Building on this experience, he founded and heads strategic consulting firm FalkAdvisors|DGB whose mission is to help funders and the not-for-profits they support achieve the best…
  • Speaker
    Director (2009-2016), Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
    Dr. Pamela Hartigan was Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School at the University of Oxford from 2009 until her passing in 2016. She was also founding partner of Volans Ventures, an organization focused on building innovative scalable solutions to challenges…
  • Speaker
    Director, Business for Social Responsibility
    I've spent 20 years working at the nexus between private sector innovation, sustainable markets and social development. I'm passionate about enabling entrepreneurial innovation within corporations in collaboration with civil society, development and impact investing partners. I've had the pleasure of…