About

Our Mission

Business for Impact is a center of excellence on corporate purpose and societal impact at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. We operate as a teach, think, and do tank working with business to help all people prosper and the planet thrive. Our work spans three pillars:

Educate and empower Georgetown students to lead purposeful careers and lives through experiential and academic learning.
Partner with businesses to advance corporate purpose thinking and practice through multi-sector collaborations, convenings and research.
Accelerate nonprofit success and small business prosperity so local communities can thrive.

Founded by corporate purpose pioneer Bill Novelli with a group of Georgetown MBA students as the Global Social Enterprise Initiative (GSEI) in 2010, Business for Impact has grown to become a leading center for corporate responsibility and societal impact in the United States. For more than a decade, Business for Impact has helped solve pressing worldwide problems by delivering leading-edge education and research; building cross-sector partnerships with corporations, nonprofits and government; and creating impactful opportunities for students to advance the common good. While our programs have grown and adapted over the years, our founding belief remains the same: Businesses can prosper and help solve world problems through balancing the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit.

About

Our Mission

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