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Thursday, February 25th, 4:45-5:30 pm
University Events Room
Glickman Family Library, 7th floor
Portland USM Campus
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As MBAs, business students and business professionals, there are a lot of pressures on you from family, peers, society, student loans and other obligations. Unsure of what to do, you make what you think is your safest career choice, confident that you can get back to what you love later. However, if you measure success by "more than money", what you think is your safest career choice may in fact be your riskiest. We will discuss a framework of four central questions and twelve lifelines to guide you on your path and the value of a Net Impact partnership. Illustrated with stories and humor, Mark will help you consider your personal, authentic "destiny plan" for your life and career.
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In March 2009, Dr. Albion joined Babson College's Office of the President to help implement the college's new strategy for every student to create "great economic and social value… everywhere," or as he says, "educating students to become the best for the world." In April 2010, Dr. Albion will be the first "social" entrepreneur to receive the national entrepreneur of the year award at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
Dr. Albion was a student and professor at Harvard for 20 years, after which he co-founded seven organizations, including the global student leadership network, Net Impact. Dr. Albion has made over 600 visits to business schools on five continents to discuss meaningful careers, for which Business Week called him "the savior of business school souls."
Dr. Albion is the author of seven books, most recently More Than Money: Questions Every MBA Needs to Answer. In Fall 2008, the book was distributed electronically to up to 55,000 MBAs in 75 schools. An animated movie from the book, "The Good Life Parable: An MBA Meets a Fisherman," also on YouTube, has won four environmental film festival's official short-film selection.
Dr. Albion has been a grand prize and development track judge for many years at the MIT $100K, where a few years ago his judging group "dinged" Guitar Hero for having no chance to succeed in the marketplace. He has served as a judge for several other business-plan competitions, including most recently the Jay Chiat International Awards for Strategic Excellence in the Social Strategy. Mark also hosted the 3-year old SVN Innovation awards and has served as a judge and mentor each year. |
The colloquium is sponsored by the
L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Endowed Chair in Accounting.
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USM Professor Jeffrey Gramlich was appointed the first L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Chair in Accounting in the USM School of Business in 2003. His appointment was made possible by a $1 million gift from L.L. Bean, Inc., its board chair, Leon Gorman, his wife Lisa, Jim and Maureen Gorman, and Tom Gorman, who established the chair in memory of L.L. Bean CFO Lee Surace '73, '81, who died in March of 2001. Surace was chair of the USM School of Business' Advisory Council and was a frequent guest lecturer.
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