Non-profit leadership program broadens Wharton experience - Wharton Journal - News: "on-profit leadership program broadens Wharton experience
By Erica D. Coleman & Sadaf Kazmi, WG'05 & WG'06
Published: Monday, October 3, 2005
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Wharton is often associated with words such as finance, accounting, strategy, and marketing. As a business school, those associations certainly make sense. However, as Wharton grows as an institution and our understanding of what it means to develop business leaders evolves, words such as civic leadership, social entrepreneurship and philanthropy become more and more fitting.
Nonprofit organizations in the U.S. are facing a real challenge in finding and attracting new Board Members with a breadth of talents. In the wake of this leadership challenge, many business schools have developed an innovative solution to help organizations find new leaders with strong business acumen while simultaneously offering their students an additional training ground on which to hone their leadership skills. In April, Wharton joined these business schools when the Social Impact Management (SIM) Initiative launched the pilot year of the Nonprofit Board Leadership Program (NPBLP)."
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