Net Impact 2010: A Shot in the Arm
There’s nothing like being back on a college campus surrounded by ~2,000 students to make me pine for my own B-school days. Ah, remembering the night that my friend Wei and I stupidly pulled an all-nighter for the PAC-10 case competition. Marveling at the beautiful spreadsheet model that I previously could only dream about were it not for the help of my classmate Samir and some patient professors. Helping talk my friend Cass into adopting a puppy when we were visiting a store while doing a research project for at PetSmart. Or lying on the floor of my living room bawling, convinced I would never get the job I wanted, despite the assurances of a very supportive career management center staff.
Last week, I had the chance not only to take the requisite trip down memory lane, but also get a boost from the 2,500 MBA students and professionals who descended upon Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday for the annual Net Impact 2010 conference. Since I attended my first Net Impact conference back in 2003, the conference has more than doubled in size and now attracts a regular flow of leading CSR professionals, many of whom remarked that this is one of their favorite CSR conferences (click here to read nice summary of conference from Marc Gunther). And I have to whole-heartedly agree.
