The Challenge for Business and Society: A Luncheon Conversation with Stan Litow

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The Challenge for Business and Society: A Luncheon Conversation with Stan Litow

Colorado Technology Association is pleased to invite you to an exclusive luncheon featuring Stanley Litow, Professor and Innovator in Residence at Duke University, and President Emeritus of the IBM Foundation and Vice President Emeritus of IBM's Global Corporate Citizenship program.

The discussion will focus on Stan’s new book The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward, exploring how responsible businesses can step up their efforts to create jobs, reduce poverty, improve education and health, and address climate change issues both domestically and around the world while still generating the economic growth to enrich shareholders and create jobs. The Challenge for Business and Society shows how leaders in business and government can actively balance the growth of business with the needs of society, producing even greater financial returns.

SPACE IS LIMITED! - Attendees Receive a Complimentary Copy of Stanley Litow's New Book - The Challenge for Business and Society!

Stan Litow
Stan Litow is a Professor and Innovator in Residence at Duke University, and is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. He is the author of the book, The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward, and serves as a Trustee of the State University of New York where he serves as Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee. He also serves as a Trustee of the Gerstner Foundation and the Albert Shanker Institute.

Stan is President Emeritus of the IBM Foundation and Vice President Emeritus of IBM's Global Corporate Citizenship program. At IBM he led the nations most effective global corporate social responsibility program. He managed and led three National Education Summits, created the P TECH program a new model for high school and college that has been replicated across the US and globally. He also helped create the Corporate Service Corps often referred to as the corporate version of the Peace Corps and many innovative uses of technology to drive social responsibility efforts, He is also former Deputy Chancellor of Schools for the City of New York where he created many innovative school reform efforts, former President of Interface the not for profit think tank, former Executive Director of the Educational Priorities Panel and former Executive Director of the New York City Urban Corps, operated out of the Mayor's Office of the City of New York.

His career as a leader and innovator in education, corporate social responsibility, economic development and social services has been significant. He has served in leadership positions across the public, private and not for profit sectors and has created many innovative programs of long standing.

The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward
The Challenge for Business and Society: From Risk to Reward provides a fact-based assessment of the role that corporations have played and currently play in addressing some of societies most pressing challenges. It moves past the rhetoric and lays out a compelling case that while some businesses have misbehaved, many more have displayed real, effective leadership.

But perhaps even more importantly, the book offers a blueprint and roadmap for the concrete actions that business, government, and civil society can take to address some of the most pressing challenges facing society today.

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