Fellow Net Impact Club Members,

First of all, we would like to thank everyone who worked so hard to make Green Week and Fuqua Friday a huge success!  Also, thank you to everyone who participated in the events throughout the week.

The Net Impact Conference is this week, November 13th-14th! We hope you all are looking forward to the conference. If you have any last-minute questions about the conference or about logistics, please feel free to reach out to Liana Humphrey (liana.humphrey@duke.edu). She has done an excellent job to help everyone prepare for the event. Thank you Liana for all your hard work!

For those who ordered a Net Impact Club sweatshirt, be sure to pick them up in the Fox Center at lunch this week. Sweatshirts are $31.50 (exact change appreciated). Also be sure to join our Facebook group!

Last, there are a few important announcements that we would like to bring your attention to:

1. If you’re coming to the Net Impact Conference, don’t forget to attend the happy hour with the other North Carolina Net Impact chapters at 7pm on Friday, November 13th, at the appropriately named Chapter House Brew Pub. (See more details below).
   
2. The deadline for the Leeds School of Business Net Impact Case Competition is this Monday, November 16th. Be sure to check out the link below if you are interested in forming a team or if you are looking for a team to join.
   
3. The information sessions for the skills-based volunteering programs are offered twice next week on November 17th (6:30-7:30pm) and November 18th (2-3pm). These programs are an excellent opportunity to apply your business skills and educate junior high and high school students on the fundamentals of business. Sign up today!
   
4. The Net Impact Club is leading a Meals on Wheels trip on December 9th at 9am. This volunteer opportunity only takes a few hours of your time and is an excellent way to get involved in the Durham community.
   

Good luck to everyone who is going to Ithaca and have a great week!

Please visit http://www.dukembanetimpact.org/newsletterEvents.php for up-to-date information.  Note, this page currently only views properly in Internet Explorer, but we are in the process of making it viewable in Firefox.

Don't worry, you don't have to be left out for much longer! 

If we reach critical mass in demand for the hooded zip-ups, we will order more... and we have already had a lot of interest so we are almost there!  In order to gage interest, please sign up HERE if you are interested in still ordering your very own.  The sweatshirts sell for just $31.50 each. 

About the design: The Duke Net Impact Club logo will be on the front of the sweatshirt and quotes related to making an impact in sustainability are on the back of the sweatshirt. We recognize that “sustainability” is a rapidly-changing term with a number of definitions. Throughout the year and with your help, the Net Impact Club is going to try to bring some clarity as to "What Sustainability Means to Us,” the Fuqua community. The design of our sweatshirts is the first step, utilizing famous quotes that resonated with the cabinet. The quotes make up the iconic, concentric rings of the Net Impact logo on the backside of the sweatshirt.

CONGRATULATIONS TO SECTION 1

Section 1 was the winner of the Green Week Recycling Competition with 6 bags of recycling collected! They will have trees planted in their honor through a donation to a reforestation organization. Thanks to everyone who participated and helped to promote this event. Together we successfully raised awareness and furthered our commitment to recycling here at Fuqua. Congratulations Section 1!

The Net Impact conference is almost here! If you are planning to attend, don’t forget to update the Google spreadsheet with your latest travel plans: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtEPw_Me5KvsdGk4MGYyamhYWjVrbUxoRmVQejBjaFE&hl=en

North Carolina’s various Net Impact chapters will be meeting for a happy hour social at 7pm on Friday at the appropriately named Chapter House Brew Pub. The address is 400 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca and the phone number is 607-277-9782. You can take the Collegetown shuttle bus from the main conference site, which will drop you off on College Ave outside the Center for the Theater Arts. Walk 2 blocks down Cascadilla Place, which turns into Williams St. The Chapter House is on the corner of Williams and Stewart.

A few reminders:

• Please review content notes and theme definitions in order to build you schedule online on the conference site
• Make your list of panels/ speakers you wish to contact in advance
• Research the panels that you will attend so you have talking points for when you network with the panelists
• Take plenty of business cards along
• For any clarification questions on the database, contact Ritu Khanna.

If you have any questions about the conference, please feel free to contact Liana Humphrey at liana.humphrey@duke.edu.

When:  Wednesday, November 11th at 6:30pm (dinner served at 6:15pm)
Where: Social Sciences Rm 136, West Campus

A discussion led by Fiona Terry, PhD a visiting scholar at the Kenan Institute for Ethics and former Research Director for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)

Please RSVP to Nancy Hare Robbins (nhare@duke.edu) by 12pm on Tuesday November 10, 2009.

Are you interested in global health? Do you want to find out what other students are doing and how you can contribute?

About Us:
The Global Health Working Group is a student-run group sponsored by the Duke University Center for International Studies. It is a uniquely
interdisciplinary collection of graduate and professional students dedicated to:

(1) Educating themselves and the Research Triangle community about global health issues.
(2) Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among graduate and professional students at Duke and UNC.
(3) Serving the cause of global health through advocacy and related activities.

The GHWG's main activities include bimonthly meetings consisting of student or outside speaker presentations and discussion, participation in local service projects, and the compilation of global health-related scholarship.

CONTACTS: Meredith Barrett (meredith.barrett@duke.edu), Matt McElwee (matthew.mcelwee@duke.edu), Kunal Mitra (kunal.mitra@duke.edu), Tripper Sauer (tripper.sauer@gmail.com) and Aaron Stoertz (aaron.stoertz@duke.edu)

Presented by the GHWG and undergraduate Global Health Forum.

"DEAD AID:  Why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa"

When:  Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 - 5:30 pm

Where: UNC Kenan-Flagler, Maurice J. Koury Auditorium

RSVP Required (Limited seating): rsvpkenan@unc.edu

For more details, go to http://www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu/moyo

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Business Across Borders - Africa,   "The Role of Foreign Investment"

When: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 - 12:30 - 2:00pm

Where: UNC Kenan-Flagler, Kenen Center Dining Room

Luncheon Panel Discussion

RSVP Required (Limited seating): rsvpkenan@unc.edu

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Details at http://www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu/moyo/panel/

When: Wednesday, Nov. 11 @ 4:00 p.m.

Where: Room 230 of the John Hope Franklin Cente

Audiance:  Most applicable to US Citizens looking for full time employment with the U.S. Foreign Service, but all welcomed to attend.

Information session given by Todd Schwartz, currently Director of the Office of Iranian Affairs at the U.S. State Department.  Todd has agreed to hold an information session about economic work in the Foreign Service at 4 p.m. Nov. 11 in Room 230 of the John Hope Franklin Center.

Todd is an Economic Officer in the Foreign Service, and has had a varied and distinguished career. Before taking on his current assignment Todd was the Counselor for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, which followed a year in Washington as Director of the Office of Iraqi Economic Affairs. Todd joined the Foreign Service in 1987, and has had postings in Germany, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Qatar, the Philippines, Kuwait, and Canada.

State Department economic officers work in areas as diverse as trade agreements, facilitation for U.S. businesses abroad, economic sanctions (a big one at the moment for Iran), energy, aviation and the environment. I have noticed that many Duke students are interested in careers with the State Department. Todd's session would be of particular interest to business and environment students, as well as those with an economics background. As many of your know, the State Department has more than doubled its hiring of Foreign Service Officers, so this is a great time to look into it as a career.

Students can RSVP to stephen.kelly@duke.edu.

When: Thursday, Nov. 19th
Where: Alivia's (in Durham)
Time: 7:30 pm

* More details to come. *

When: Monday, Nov. 16, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Where: Sauer Classroom

Interested in attending the Net Impact Week-In-Cities to DC in Decembe? Come to the information session to learn more about some of the companies we will visit and what benefits there are to attending! 

For any questions, please contact Koji Kitazume ( koji.kitazume@fuqua.duke.edu)

Come join us to discuss Career Paths vs. Roles – how to think about your off-campus job search.

Feeling lost? Think you are too broad / too narrow in your ideas? Have not started? Don’t know where to begin or where to focus? Come and have a discussion with us this Tuesday where we will share a framework to think about this process. The session will begin with a general overview and will dive into specific peoples career path and roles.

We will be changing the job search team next Tuesday November 17th, to 4:00-5:00 pm because of the MBAA townhall meeting.

Venue: TBD

Session to be led by Ritu Khanna (under job search teams but all welcome).

When: November 15, 2009

Be a part of A Day in a (Un)Sustainable Life, an exciting research and policy project developed by University of St. Thomas marketing professor David Alexander.  To make the project a success, we invite our Net Impact chapter members and your local community to participate on November 15th.

Details: This project studies differences in perceptions of sustainable consumption practices around the world by asking participants to wander into their community on November 15th to take photographs of the best and worst in sustainability where they live. As they compose those photographs, participants capture the thoughts and feelings they're experiencing in a journal. When they're done, participants share their thoughts and photographs with the project. The University of St. Thomas' Net Impact chapter is taking a leadership role in carrying the project forward as an annual event that documents differences in sustainable consumption around the world and tracks changes in practices and perceptions over time.

A Day in a (Un)Sustainable Life offers the opportunity to be part of a research project that develops valuable new insights about the adoption of sustainable consumption in a multi-cultural, global environment that will influence policy makers around the world.

Participating is fun and easy and involves as much or as little time as one wishes. And you don't need to be a professional photographer to make a major contribution to the project. We've attached a short PDF brochure that you can distribute with the invitations you send out. The brochure provides specific instructions to participants on how to capture their images, thoughts, and feelings and how to then share what they've captured with us via the photo-sharing website Flikr.com or email.

if you have any questions, contact the project team (ADayInSustainability@yahoo.com)

When: Tuesday, December 1st from 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Where:  Lilly Classroom

Details:  Meet professionals from Teach for America, the Broad Residency, and New Leaders for New Schools to learn what's happening to the education system in America. This session will focus on key issues including human capital, data management, and public schools versus charter schools. Also learn how an MBA can add value in the education sector. Come prepared with questions on Tuesday, December 1st from 6:00pm to 7:30pm in Lily.

For more information, contact Laura Vogel ( laura.vogel@duke.edu).

If you want to represent Fuqua at Net Impact and related case competitions and business plan competitions, we have plenty coming up soon.

The following excel file lists and describes the upcoming competitions for the year: Net Impact Case Competitions 2009-2010.xlsx.  Also visit the Net Impact website at http://www.dukembanetimpact.org/curriculum_and_case_competitions.php to see the list of competitions for the upcoming year.

Contact anand.kanoria@duke.edu if any pique your interest and you want to form a team. We do have a few competitions with registration deadlines within the week so you need to act quickly.

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Also, If you're interested in being included in a mailing list for case competitions, fill out this short form by Wednesday 6pm the latest: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHRGYmNZaUdQN3l2NXdKVGVnWkFkeXc6MA.

Don't miss out on the Leeds School of Business Net Impact Case Competition.  The first round deadline is fast approaching, so make sure you have plenty of time to get your registration submitted. You won't want to miss out on going to the mountains for some good competition and skiing and representing Fuqua!

Important dates include:

• Monday, November 16th: Registration deadline
• Wednesday, November 18th: Virtual Case released to all registered teams
• Wednesday, December 2nd: Virtual Case submission deadline
• Monday, December 7th: Top 20 teams announced

Please visit http://nicomp.colorado.edu for information and registration links. 

This year, our main sponsor is Xcel Energy and we are looking forward to another great competition.

Feel free to email Chelsea Norton if you have any further questions.

Do you have an idea for a startup? Can you explain it in two minutes? Win cash and prizes at the Duke Start-Up Challenge Elevator Pitch Competition, from November 16th to November 20th. 

Social entrepreneurs are strongly encouraged to participate in the Social Entreprises Track of the Duke Start-Up Challenge on Wednesday Nov. 18th!  The deadline to register your team to participate in the Elevator Pitch Competition is Wednesday November 11 at 5pm.

Register now:  http://www.dukestartupchallenge.org/how-to-get-involved/register-to-pitch

Competition Details:

The Elevator Pitch Competition runs for from November 16th through 20th. Any Duke student (undergrad or grad), faculty, or post-doc can participate. Each team gets two minutes and can have one powerpoint slide (no animations). Each night there are different tracks that you can compete in. Winners will be selected from each of the following tracks:

The winners from each track will advance to the Finals on November 20th @ Fuqua, Geneen Auditorium, 5:30pm Networking Event, 7pm Finals

Next step:

To compete, register by 5pm on November 11th at:  http://www.dukestartupchallenge.org/how-to-get-involved/register-to-pitch
And send a single PowerPoint slide (with no animations) to hwr2@duke.edu at the same time.

Questions? Contact Steve Pal, Duke Start-Up Challenge Co-President at steven.pal@fuqua.duke.edu

More information on the Duke Start-Up Challenge at http://www.dukestartupchallenge.org
This event is part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, http://www.unleashingideas.org

Why volunteer?

Do you want to make a different in the lives of students in the Durham community? The Net Impact skills-based volunteering programs offer business students the opportunity to utilize the business skills that they have already developed and those they are currently developing at Fuqua. It is an experience in which students can get involved in the community outside of Fuqua and can participate in an extremely rewarding and valuable activity. Fuqua Students can take a break from the stress of business school life and can spend time with elementary, middle and high school students who can truly benefit from their help. Each of the skills-based volunteering programs offers a unique and differentiated volunteering experience.

Contact: Lindsey Fishleder (lindsey.fishleder@duke.edu)

When: December 9th, 9am

Where:  2522 Ross Rd, Durham NC

Are you looking for a new volunteer opportunity? The Net Impact Club will be helping Meals on Wheels December 9th, at 9 AM . Come help us pack food for 30 minutes OR stay for 90 minutes to pack and deliver food to residents of the community.

Sign up here – http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsrGyM1QribSdFZhNzB4My0yc1FkeTMwUjlLaUM4Y2c&hl=en.

Meals on Wheels is located at 2522 Ross Rd. You will receive a follow-up email the weekend before you volunteer with additional logistics information. Please contact Colleen Arthur (colleen.arthur@duke.edu) with any questions.

When:  Friday, Novemeber 14th, 4:30-5:30PM
Where: John Avery Boys & Girls Club, 808 E Pettigrew St, Durham, NC (http://www.johnavery.org/).

                Meet in the Winter Garden at 4PM to carpool to the center (parking is limited at the B&G Club).

What: Take time out of your week during this Fuqua Friday to engage in fun activities with local youth at the Boys & Girls Club in Durham. Activities will include: Soccer and Basketball clinics; Games room; and Crafts. Catered by Church's Chicken. This is a chance to mentor youth and give back to the community in which we are living for two years. Partners are welcome! While an RSVP is not required to attend, we need to estimate the number of students planning in participating so we can have enough food and carpools.

If you are either definitely planning to participate or are a maybe please take this short survey by noon on Thursday, Nov 12 to help us out: http://duke.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_02RfysBnEY4ITZy&SVID=Prod.  You can still come join the fun on Friday even if you don't sign up now!

Sponsored by the Christian Business Fellowship, Jewish Business Association, Latter Day Saint Student Association,

Middle Eastern and Islamic Business Club, Fuqua Catholics

Followed by "MBAA After Party" at Tyler's Taproom
When: Friday, Novemeber 14th, 5:30-8:30pm
Where: Backroom at Tyler's in the American Tobacco District: 324 Blackwell St # 400, Durham.
What: After the service event, join the Fuqua community at Tyler's Taproom for drinks, food and fun.

Sponsored by the MBAA

The CASE SIF is a fund that enables students to learn about the rewards and challenges of social sector management during their summer internship without making a significant financial sacrifice. In addition, the program enables organizations that otherwise could not afford to hire MBA student interns to benefit from students’ expertise in areas such as finance, management consulting, strategic planning and marketing. In 2009, the CASE SIF enabled 22 students to receive summer funding to explore careers in the social sector! (Thank you to everyone who was involved in fundraising, and congratulations to everyone who engaged in internships in the social sector!)

Looking Forward

We want to continue to position SIF as a differentiating element for MBA students seeking careers in the social sector; therefore, our plan is to grow the fund considerably over the next few years through a larger and wider student led fundraising effort. We need your help on the CASE SIF Taskforce to ensure that we have increased funds in 2010!

During the coming months, the CASE SIF Taskforce will assist in the planning and implementation of annual events consisting of Stache Bash, Cap & Gown Rentals, and Give a Day Campaign; historically, these events have represented the bulk of the funds raised. However, this year we want to go further. Plans are underway for two new events:

1) an all you can eat sweets extravaganza (think bake sale done Fuqua style), &

2) a finals pizza and sandwich study break.

How You Can Play a Leadership Role

We would also like to ask that all Net Impact Members who are able and interested join the CASE SIF Taskforce (please complete the following Google Document if you are interested: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnHOsCFB9HzydDZRdTFfRVdDQTMyMmtHQlU3T2ZWQkE&hl=en).

During Fall 2, we will be reaching out with ways that you can contributed to fundraising efforts even if you are not on the CASE SIF Taskforce (for example, helping to bake treats for the sweets extravaganza, etc.). Thank you in advance for donating your time and energy! With the entire Net Impact Club behind these events, we are sure to be successful in raising money and awareness for this important cause!

Next Steps

The CASE SIF Taskforce will be led by Net Impact Finance cabinet members Paige Elisha and Alfonso Puente. During the coming weeks, we will reach out to provide more information about fundraising in Fall 2. Please reach out to either Paige (paige.elisha@fuqua.duke.edu) or Alfonso (alfonso.puente@fuqua.duke.edu) if you have any questions or fundraising suggestions.

Director, Environmental Initiatives, HP, San Jose, CA http://nbmbaa.careercast.com/careers/jobsearch/detail?jobId=20174945&viewType=main&networkView=main

Director of Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, Vi-Jon, Inc., St. Louis, MO http://www.ellenweinreb.com/docs/ViJonDirectorSustainabilityCSR.doc

Director of Campus Sustainability, Hofstra University, NY

http://www.hofstra.edu/About/Jobs/jobs_careers_at_hofstra.cfm?jobType=Admin

Manager, Sustainability & Supplier Performance, MillerCoors, Milwaukee, WI

http://ow.ly/wuDo

Senior Sustainability Consultant with Real Estate Experience, Arup, San Francisco http://www.arupamericascareers.com/arup/jobboard/JobDetails.aspx?__ID=*007C7DB052FCE6E0