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Best for the World: A Global Movement to Redefine Success in Business and the Role It Can, Must and Does Play in Social Change

A Conversation With

ANDREW KASSOY

Co-Founder, B Lab

MATTHEW BISHOP

Business Editor, The Economist

April 2, 2013

6:00 - 7:30pm
Rudin Family Forum, NYU Wagner
295 Lafayette St, 2nd Floor

B Corporations are leading a movement of entrepreneurs and their supporters to redefine success in business. They're building a new sector of the economy that is using business to help solve some of society's biggest problems. Join us for a conversation about the B Corp movement, impact investing, the changing role of business in society, and role you can play in all of it.

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ANDREW KASSOY
Co-Founder, B Lab
Learn more about B Lab, the nonprofit behind B Corps.

ANDREW KASSOY is Co-Founder of B Lab, a nonprofit that is dedicated to harnessing the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. He created B Lab with longtime friends Bart Houlahan and Jay Coen Gilbert. Before leaving the private sector to form B Lab, Andrew spent 16 years in the private equity business, most recently as a Partner at MSD Real Estate Capital, an affiliate of MSD Capital, the $12 billion investment vehicle for Michael Dell. He is a Board Member of the Freelancers Union and the Freelancers Union Insurance Company and a Board Member of Echoing Green, a non-profit venture fund that provides seed capital to emerging social entrepreneurs.


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MATTHEW BISHOP
Business Editor, The Economist
Learn more about The Economist.
Follow him on Twitter: @mattbish

MATTHEW BISHOP is the US Business Editor of The Economist. He is the author of several books with Michael Green: Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World describes the new movement that brings together the business and social sectors to solve some of the world's most pressing problems; The Road From Ruin is about how to repair capitalism after the financial crisis; In Gold We Trust? The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty is an e-book. Mr Bishop is also the author of Essential Economics.

Mr. Bishop chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Philanthropy and Social Innovation and was a member of the Advisors Group to the United Nations International Year of Microcredit in 2005. He is on Twitter as @mattbish.