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March 18, 2008: GCN Founder Joins IESE Program
(Barcelona, Spain and Cabin John, Maryland) – William J. Kramer, founder of The Global Challenge Network, has joined the IESE Platform for Strategy and Sustainability (IPSS) as its Senior Associate. The program “works with decision-makers to translate the dynamics around global social and environmental sustainability into meaningful strategic insights to enable companies to survive and strive in balance with long-term interests and needs of society.”
Christian Seelos, IPSS director, said, “We are enormously pleased to welcome Bill to the Platform and its program. He brings to us a wealth of practical experience, and solid, complementary research on base of the pyramid business (BoP) models and markets.”
Kramer and Seelos indicated that they expect to use the new relationship to undertake multiple collaborative projects, including new BoP research, and executive education and training around sustainability issues, starting in 2009.
“The work of IPSS and the Global Challenge Network are closely aligned,” Mr. Kramer explained. “Professor Seelos and his colleagues are doing some of the most innovative work on social entrepreneurship and private sector-led development strategies, and together we expect further to expand the boundaries of the BoP domain.”
The work of IPSS can be found at its website.
Contact: William J. Kramer +1 301 229 9157
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Global Challenge Network Debuts In Barcelona
September 10, 2007. The Global Challenge Network, an international executive education and training network, will launch at the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) Sixth Annual Colloquium in Barcelona, September 20-21.
The new firm focuses on issues related to “our collective global challenge – creating environmentally sustainable, equitable, and inclusive growth.” Its services are aimed primarily at business executives, but benefit all who need to understand the new and pressing realities of climate change, deteriorating ecosystems, crumbling infrastructure, and the expectations of developing country populations. Participants will include those in the public sector and civil society as well as the business community.
The founder of the Global Challenge Network is William J. Kramer. “We provide ‘action-oriented learning’ to help companies identify and prioritize these new operating realities”, he said, “and then provide a clear path to acquire mastery of the scientific, technical, and practical knowledge needed to create and apply their own solution sets.”
“The purpose of every course,” he added, “whether a seminar of a few hours or a long course over several months, is to provide the knowledge necessary for action for sustainability.” Mr. Kramer comes to the task with skills acquired through a long business career in the knowledge dissemination field, and a decade of varied work in the non-profit sector, most recently as Director of Education and Training for World Resources Institute’s Markets and Enterprise program.
The theme of the EABIS education and training exchange, held at ESADE Business School, and in collaboration with IESE Business School, is “Executive Education, In-company Training and the Changing Role of Business in Society.” EABIS asked GCN to join a small number of executive education providers exploring the new contours of what managers today and in the future will need to know – and how they will acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to meet complex new business, political, environmental, and social demands.
For more information on the firm, contact William J Kramer +1 301 229 9157.
For more information on EABIS, see www.eabis.org, and for the Colloquium see http://www.esade.edu/research/eabis
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