Monday, September 8
12:00pm – 1:30pm
For additional information, please contact Kernaghan Webb [mailto:[email protected]]
The DC Wharton Club’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum, will hold its upcoming meeting on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.
Lunch will be held from 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Please arrive no later than 11:45 to get your lunch without interrupting the program), including time for networking
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LOCATION: Xcelerate Solutions, 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 930, Tysons Corner, 22102
We are privileged to have as our June speaker Wharton Professor Witold Henisz. He will discuss his new book. About Corporate Diplomacy: Building Reputations & Relationships with External Stakeholders (Greenleaf Publishing, April 2014):
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The Reputation Imperative suggests the fire has been lit for organizations to be more successful in an increasingly competitive (and commoditized) global marketplace. Whether challenges stem from internal capability gaps or external marketplace factors, reputation-based management can empower leaders by bringing order to the chaos of a multi-stakeholder, multi-connected world. How do leading organizations tell a differentiated story, manage to set KPIs, reward executives, structure teams, and sustainably operate across functions? Who has been successful in managing the ecosystem – where no one is in charge and everyone has a voice?
For more, see http://www.riconf.com/
IFC Sustainability Exchange
May 21-22, 2014
IFC’s 8th Annual Sustainability Exchange: Transformation through Collaboration will host more than 200 global practitioners from companies, think tanks, NGOs, donor agencies, and academia to jointly explore economic, environmental and social challenges and opportunities, while adapting the latest sustainability trends to their operational reality.
This year’s keynote speakers include Jane Nelson, Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative and Larry Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Speakers are also confirmed from Conservation International, FSG, Nestlé, Newmont, Rio Tinto, Shell, Sodexho, Wharton Business School, World Wide Fund for Nature and many more cutting edge organizations.
The two-day Exchange will explore topics such as:
- Fiscal and non-fiscal aspects of benefit sharing
- Sustainability trends across infrastructure and the natural resource sectors
- Research and practices for successful collaboration and shared value
- Food, water, energy and mining – competition and cooperation
- Internal alignment across the operation: roles and responsibilities from the board room to the front lines
- Transformational opportunities through investments and collaboration in post-conflict environments
- Community driven processes and market driven livelihoods
Due to limited space, this event is by invitation only. For inquiries, email[email protected]
This workshop will bring together key and interested participants from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, including researchers from CSIRO and the University of Queensland to scope the development of new concepts and tools for dynamic evaluation of Social License to Operate under uncertainty.
The main aim of the workshop is to examine and explore the key challenges in developing a valuation framework for social license, which necessitates the confluence of qualitative and quantitative research concepts.
Given that Social License to Operate issues are relevant across many industrial sectors such as minerals, energy, manufacturing, and water management, there is a critical need to establish and foster networks, through workshops such as this, that will provide a platform for combining the social science thinking with industry perspectives and the concepts of quantitative risk analysis, real options and sequential decisions under uncertainty to ultimately support enhancing decision making approaches for complex and wicked problems.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Christine Charles Social licence: an industry perspective
- Andreas Monch Exploring some of the key challenges in getting support for social valuation in the minerals and mining industry
- Professor David Brereton (SMI/UQ) Growing importance of social licence to operate in the minerals industry
- Dr Kieren Moffat (CSIRO), The paths to social licence to operate: an integrative model explaining community acceptance of mining
- Professor Witold Henisz (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Valuing, building and maintaining cooperation with stakeholder: insight from media content coding
- Dr Ross Sparks (CSIRO), Examples of modelling and monitoring social value or behaviour
- Dr Tanya Tarnopolskaya (CSIRO), Real options: valuing flexibility in mining projects under uncertainty
- Dr Pavel Shevchenko (CSIRO), Combining expert opinion and data: experience from operational risk
The expected outcomes include identification of critical research gaps, potential research agendas for PhD students and Post Doctoral Fellows, ideas for a small number of topical papers and the development of a draft Social License to Operate valuation roadmap,
The two-day workshop will be held on 11 and 12 June 2015 at the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland.
Day 1 will run from 10am to 5pm and comprise presentations by the above speakers and discussion of critical research gaps. Day 2 will run from 9am to 3pm and comprise interactive group work to elicit potential research ideas and agendas and the development of the draft roadmap.
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In this webinar, learn why shareholder value is increasingly created and protected through smart stakeholder relations.
Corporate Diplomacy is a strategic imperative for risk management and enterprise sustainability in the hyperconnected, global business landscape.
In this hour-long presentation and discussion, we’ll talk with Corporate Diplomacy author Witold Henisz to explore the fundamental stakeholder relations challenge faced by managers of multinational corporations, and present new tools to help develop smarter corporate strategies for stakeholder engagement.
What We’ll Discuss:
- The business case for an integrated, strategic approach to stakeholder relations, and how it underpins efficient, profitable enterprises
- Illustrative examples of the fundamental challenge of stakeholder relations management in the competitive, global, hyperconnected 21st century
- The six elements of corporate diplomacy: due diligence, integration, personal, learning, openness, and mindset
- The consequences of stakeholder conflict in an age of instant communications and global business environments
- The interconnected nature of communications, government affairs, risk management, and sustainability
Register at: http://app.webinarjam.net/register/14638/52e2a0287d
“In short, Witold J. Henisz has given a fascinating and fresh insight into smart stakeholder engagement by managing the analytical and behavioural elements of diplomacy.”
For full review by Samita Maruya download CSR International Review