GCN Associate
JOHN WEISER
      
Doing Business Everywhere
Strategic Management

John Weiser is a partner in the firm of Brody · Weiser · Burns.  He specializes in working with organizations that seek to use business strategies to achieve social goals.  John co-founded Brody · Weiser · Burns in 1984 to pursue his vision of business as a force for social change, after two years with the Boston Consulting Group.  Since then he has helped businesses, nonprofits, foundations and public sector agencies create, build consensus around, and implement a broad range of corporate-community partnership strategies. 

John served as the primary managing consultant for the Ford Foundation Corporate Involvement Initiative from 1994 to 2003.  The Initiative has developed a number of promising new models for corporate engagement, created a database of best practices, and produced a wide range of seminars, conferences and marketing materials aimed at broadening awareness and interest in these new approaches.

John graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from Harvard University, and holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management.  He is the author of the award-winning book Untapped: Creating Value in Underserved Markets, which provides practical, tested tools companies can use to engage consumers, workers, and suppliers to address the needs of both the corporation and the community.

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