Meet Marlboro MBA in Boston

Marlboro MBA in Managing for Sustainability program director Ralph Meima will host an informal networking and information opportunity at Sauciety Bar in the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Wednesday April 25, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

This is a chance to learn about our progressive, radically different MBA program - built from scratch around sustainability principles and practices to serve the change agents and social entrepreneurs transforming our economy from the inside.

Change the climate of business!

An RSVP is strongly encouraged.

Questions? Contact Ralph Meima at (cell) 802 380-1029, or email him at:  rmeima@gradschool.marlboro.edu

Tamara Stenn Discusses Fair Trade

Friday, March 23, 5:30–7:00pm, with a networking social event to follow

Tamara Stenn is a business developer and economist who spent 15 years working with Bolivia’s indigenous women creating fair trade sweaters for export through her company, KUSIKUY Clothing Company. This interactive workshop will introduce participants to fair trade and help them to envision the world of fair trade producers. Fair Trade is a multi-billion-dollar model of global trade, which provides free technical assistance, education, training and global market access for marginalized people in lesser economically developed countries.

Largely understood as benefiting people through economic opportunity, an equally important aspect of fair trade is the space it creates for people to meet, talk, share ideas and feel supported and empowered. Stenn conducts ethnographic research on the women involved in fair trade to bring awareness to their needs and unique situations. By working together and sharing experiences, Stenn believes that greater equality can be brought to trade, resulting in a fairer and more just world. Stenn is an adjunct professor teaching Women and Empowerment and Measuring Fair Trade at Keene State College. Her upcoming book, Fair Trade and Justice will be published in early 2013.

This event is hosted by the Marlboro Net Impact chapter.

A $5 donation is suggested to help support future Net Impact events but is not required for attendance.

Jeff Allar Speaks On Values In Business

• Friday February 10, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. 2012

Jeff Allar, Vice President of Human Resources at Stonyfield Farm, will offer insight on Stonyfield’s experience, including the role of a CEO, retaining long-term independence, and the moral obligation to disclose.

In addition to its natural and organic dairy products, Stonyfield Farm is known for doing well by doing good. Jeff Allar, Vice President of Human Resources, leads the team with a track record of being good to its workforce by providing a healthful, productive work place offering opportunities to grow. This commitment coupled with the company’s mission has has led to Stonyfield being recognized as one of the Best Companies to Work for in New Hampshire for the last two years in a row. Jeff and his team have introduced enhanced wellness programs and a smoke-free workplace. Jeff also serves as the executive champion for Stonyfield’s Walking Our Talk (SWOT) Team.

Jeff joined Stonyfield Farm in 2008 after 13 years in many roles, most recently as the head of Supply Chain Human Resources for Good Humor – Breyers / Unilever Ice Cream in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Jeff’s specialties are workforce learning and development, and organizational performance. He has served as a Senior Examiner and Judge for Wisconsin’s Forward Award and as an examiner for the nationally recognized Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Jeff is currently the Vice President of the Board of Directors for Bridges, the domestic violence and sexual assault organization serving the Nashua community, and he serves on the Board of Directors for New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility.

Jeremy Grantham Discusses Investing, Resource Limitations & Globa

Friday December 2, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.

Jeremy Grantham, founder of GMO, a global investment management firm responsible for over $93 billion in client assets, will speak at Marlboro College Graduate School on  “Irrational Avoidance of the Unpleasant: Perspectives on Investing, Resource Limitations & Global Warming”.

A recent New York Times profile of Grantham says his quarterly letters “command a cult following of readers within and beyond the financial industry, (because they) inspire even the most short-term profit-minded investors to do a little fate-of-the-world-scale thinking.”

Grantham is an impassioned environmentalist who channels his wealth to The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, which tries to raise public awareness of environmental issues and to promote collaboration within the environmental movement. He also supports the Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting, which awards the $75,000 Grantham Prize for Excellence in Environmental Journalism.

Grantham has been featured in Forbes, Barron’s and Business Week and is routinely quoted by the financial press. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Sheffield (U.K.) and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Reading Grantham’s latest quarterly letter, you get a glimpse of his ability to intertwine compelling storytelling with well documented research. He includes a tale of “The Devil and the Farmer” which highlights his interest in soil erosion and sustainable agriculture. Jeremy Grantham’s son, Rupert, who is a MBA candidate in the Marlboro MBA in Managing for Sustainability, is completing his Capstone on “Promoting Sustainable Agriculture“, a project sponsored by the Grantham Foundation.

America's Climate Problem: The Way Forward

Talk by Robert Repetto

Friday, November 11, 5:00pm  •  Marlboro College Graduate School

A senior fellow of the United Nations Foundation in its Climate and Energy Program, Robert Repetto has worked for over 25 years to develop and promote reasonable responses to the challenges of climate change. His talk will lay out those challenges and how they can best be met and overcome. Prior to his work at the foundation, Repetto was professor of economics & sustainable development at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Earlier in his career he was vice president of the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C., a Pew Fellow at the Marine Policy Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and an advisor on economic planning in India, Pakistan and Indonesia. He is the author of a new book, America’s Climate Problem: The Way Forward.

Artificial Animal: Society, Government & Corporations

Talk by Peter Kinder

Friday, October 14, 5:00pm • Marlboro Graduate School

With the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that the U.S. Constitution guarantees corporations the right to participate in elections, the rights of corporations as individuals has again become a hot issue. But debating “corporate personhood,” obscures the ultimate question the court has raised: what is a corporation? History holds some surprising answers; it also suggests paths to change. Peter Kinder has studied the relationship between society and corporations for 40 years and is former president and co-founder of KLD Research & Analytics, a company that researched corporate behavior for socially responsible investors. He now blogs on the subject—and many others—at thebell.us.