Through the generous support of its affiliates, the Social Impact Consulting Group is able to provide its members professional consulting training sessions hosted by industry leading companies such as Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Co. SIC also organizes various events about social entrepreneurship and philanthropy which are generally available to the public.
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The Social Impact Consulting Group has several unique and exciting events planned for the fall 2008 semester, including training sessions from Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co., and Oliver Wyman. The dates for these sessions are TBD so stay tuned! |
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"Approaching Client Engagements to Maximize Impact"
Hosted by McKinsey & Co.
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Hosted by McKinsey & Co.
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In February 2008, SIC members were highly fortunate to receive a training session hosted by McKinsey & Co. Led by Mr. Claudio Waller, an engagement manager at McKinsey, the session taught members about how to efficiently approach consulting projects to maximize impact. Mr. Waller covered topics ranging from issue trees to effective graphing and diagramming techniques.
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"Crossing the Bridge: From Profit to Nonprofit"
Given by David Simms
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Given by David Simms
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In March 2008, the Social Impact Consulting Group hosted a speaker event with David Simms, a partner of the Bridgespan Group, which is a nonprofit consulting spin off from Bain & Company. David Simms is the managing partner of Bridgestar, which follows a mission to increase the flow of passionate and highly skilled senior leaders into and within nonprofit organizations. Mr. Simms holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated with distinction. As an undergraduate, he earned a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Applied Science from Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He graduated from Penn summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
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"Social Entrepreneurship vs. Philanthropy:
Which Creates Greater Impact?"
A Debate with Ben Lewis, Heather Rees,
and Katherina Rosqueta
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Which Creates Greater Impact?"
A Debate with Ben Lewis, Heather Rees,
and Katherina Rosqueta
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The Social Impact Consulting Group also hosted a debate focusing on the emerging arena of social entrepreneurship and its contrast to the idea of strict philanthropy. Our guest speakers included the following:
Ben Lewis, Wharton Class of 2011, Founder and CEO of PurBlu Beverages, a business whose goal is to turn bottled water consumers into "micro-philanthropists".
Heather Rees, Founding member and Chair of the NYC Venture Philanthropy Fund, which supports emerging, entrepreneurial projects focused on tackling social and economic problems in New York City.
Stephanie Fischer, Chief Program Officer of Global Giving, a non-profit whose mission is to build an open marketplace that connects people who have community and world-changing ideas with people who can support them.
Katherina Rosqueta, Executive Director of The Center for High Impact Philanthropy, whose staff identifies the practices that have the most promise to provide the greatest impact, and then develops tools to guide philanthropists in the allocation of their gifts.
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Wharton Community Consultants Training
Hosted by BCG
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Hosted by BCG
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In October 2007, members of SIC were generously invited by MBA Wharton Community Consultants to attend an all-day training session hosted by the Boston Consulting Group. The session was led by actual consultants from BCG who covered topics ranging from structured analysis to flow logic to deck-building applications in consulting.
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Primer to Market Research
Given by Dr. Zauberman
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| | Primer to Market Research
Given by Dr. Zauberman
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In November 2007, SIC members were given a unique training session about Marketing Research by Dr. Gal Zauberman of the Wharton Marketing Department. Dr. Zauberman talked about how best to approach market scoping problems and discussed concepts ranging from backwards-based research to the value of information. At the end of the talk, Dr. Zauberman personally gave suggestions to SIC members about how to apply marketing tools to their client projects.
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