Business for a Better World Center News

On Thursday, December 2, 2021, the Business for a Better World Center welcomed B Lab, JUST Capital, and World Benchmarking Alliance as part of the Stakeholder Capitalism Discussion Series. Watch on-demand.

It wasn’t until 1972, during a United Nations conference in Stockholm, that the nations of the world formally announced what was already self-evident to most—human activity was detrimentally impacting the environment, and in turn, threatening our future prosperity. Nearly 50 years on, it seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Despite their own limited resources, Sally A. and Albert W. Kaider always made helping meet the needs of others a priority. Their legacies will now be honored as the new name of the Business for a Better World Impact Fellows 2021-2022 First Year Experience.

Kaiser Permanente recently announced a grant of $175,000 jointly supporting the Business for a Better World Center at George Mason University School of Business and the Mason and Partners Clinics (MAP Clinics).

Consistently, across dozens of different measures, including social and economic equality, political division, and other indications of individualism versus collectivism, the United States experienced growing social connections that reached a peak in the 1960s, and then declined to reach record lows today.

Amissville, Virginia, just west of Warrenton, is about a 90-minute drive from Washington, D.C. Interstate 66 is the Achilles Heel of area commuters, but the silver lining is that it leads here—to this bucolic setting and to Hinson Ford Cider & Mead. Dennis Kelly (BA English 2012, MS Technology Management 2015), his wife Mary Graham, and business partner Dave Shiff opened Hinson Ford in September of 2018.

Management Department faculty Victoria Grady and MBA Candidate Tyece Wilkins research paper that examines the role of psychological contracts and the way they can hinder organizational change.

Years spent engaging with consumers in the business world made School of Business Marketing faculty Niki Vlastara realize that how sustainability concepts and proposals were marketed significantly influenced how successful they became.

Using statistics, econometrics, and data mining techniques, School of Business faculty member Nirup Menon is hard at work trying to understand how unequal access to health care technology might be linked to unequal outcomes in health care.