By Elodie Kwan “Keep making the world better than you found it.” A good friend gave me this note before I left for Kenya. I’ve kept it in my wallet ever since. It’s a daily reminder of why I came to Kenya in the first place, why I chose to Read more…
By Martha Durkee-Neuman, Jordan Massa, and Professor Sara Minard From March 2 through March 4, two students and two faculty from Northeastern University headed to Miami to participate in the annual Ashoka U Exchange. The Exchange is a conference where all of the Ashoka U Changemaker Campuses, and other students, Read more…
By Professor Dennis R. Shaughnessy We’ve learned over the last couple of weeks that photographs and videos of children victimized by chemical warfare in Syria led to a quick and targeted response from the US government. I’ve since read that the cost of the Tomahawk missiles fired in response was Read more…
By Cayman Macdonald Other than being awesome companies, what do Kleen Kanteen, Patagonia, and Boloco have in common? Not only are they all certified B Corps, but they are also legal benefit corporations – which are not one and the same. The central idea around both is that they are Read more…
Interview by Aekta Shah I had the privilege of interviewing two of SEI’s finest alumni, Katherine Dumais and Emily Chiappinelli a couple weeks ago. Katherine, Class of 2016, and Emily, Class of 2014, were kind enough to answer some questions about their coveted jobs as fellows at B Lab in Read more…
By Professor Dennis R. Shaughnessy If you’ve watched the HBO comedy series “Silicon Valley,” you’ll hear the tech entrepreneurs lead their investor presentations with “We’re making the world a better place by….” It might be “We’re making the world a better place through Paxos algorithms for consensus protocols…,” or “We’re Read more…