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Students chosen from hundreds to learn
more on business sustainability
LONDON,
ON, July 8, 2009 - Jason Mader and
Jamila Satani, undergraduate students
from the Richard Ivey School of Business
at The University of Western Ontario,
have been selected to participate in a
national conference on leadership in
business sustainability.
They are
among 180 college and university
students chosen from more than 900
applicants across Canada to attend
Impact! The Co-operators Youth
Conference for Sustainability Leadership
in Guelph from September 24 to 27. David
Suzuki is the keynote speaker.
"I'm very
excited," said Mader. "This event is a
great opportunity to combine what I'm
learning at university with what I'm
really passionate about –
sustainability."
"Bringing students together who are
interested in the environment and then
allowing them to make an impact is
incredible," said Satani. "I'm looking
forward to meeting up with other
students to share ideas."
Mader and
Satani will join other students, aged 19
to 25, from across the country to
generate innovative sustainability ideas
at the conference and then take them
back to their campuses, communities and
workplaces.
Preparation
for the conference has already begun.
Since they were selected, the Ivey
students have taken an online
sustainability course and been assigned
groups to explore existing
sustainability practices within a
specific sector.
Satani's
group is looking at retail. The team
hopes to identify supplier relationships
and see how businesses are integrating
sustainability and where they can
improve. Mader and his team are
examining municipal public services for
the City of Ottawa. They hope to
indentify best practices for water,
hydro and garbage collection services
and develop more sustainable systems.
Partners
with The Co-operators at this inaugural
event include the Research Network for
Business Sustainability and the Richard
Ivey School of Business. Tima Bansal is
a Professor at Ivey and the Executive
Director for the Network.
"This
conference will bring together an
extremely diverse group of highly
energetic and talented students chosen
from disciplines ranging from
agriculture, to political science, to
engineering," she said. "The impact that
they can have on Canada and Canadian
business is enormous."
About the Richard Ivey School of
Business, The University of Western
Ontario
The Richard Ivey School of Business at
The University of Western Ontario (www.ivey.ca)
offers undergraduate (HBA)
and graduate degree programs (MBA,
Executive MBA and
PhD) in addition to non-degree
Executive Development programs. Ivey has
campuses in London (Ontario),
Toronto, and Hong Kong. Ivey
recently redesigned its curriculum to
focus on
Cross-Enterprise Leadership â€" a
holistic issues-based approach to
management education that meets the
demands of today's complex global
business world.
About
the Research Network for Business
Sustainability
The Research Network for Business
Sustainability (www.sustainabilityresearch.org)
includes over 500 people from academia,
industry, government and
non-governmental organizations. The
Network fosters collaboration between
these groups to build community, create
knowledge and spur innovation. We
envision a world where Canadian
enterprises contribute to prosperous
economies, healthy ecosystems and strong
communities.
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For more
information, please contact:
Dawn Milne, Richard Ivey School of
Business, 519-850-2536,
dmilne@ivey.ca
Jo Ann
Robinson, Communications Manager,
Research Network for Business
Sustainability, 519-661-2111, ext.88107,
jrobinson@ivey.ca |
