How to make a positive impact and ensure profits

We have an obligation to leave the world in a better state than we found it. A number of entrepreneurs worldwide are now developing innovative solutions to social problems that have a positive impact for future generations, enrich people’s lives and ensure profits by incentivizing creative efforts.

Dr. Niranjan Pati, professor of management and entrepreneurship at Rowan University, will share his expertise with the Carroll University community on Monday, March 10, 2014. Networking and refreshments begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Stackner Ballroom of the Campus Center, 101 N. East Ave., Waukesha. His presentation, “Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability – Blend Them for a Better World,” will be at 6 p.m. Pati will share examples, challenges and opportunities for social entrepreneurism with a focus on sustainability. This event is free and open to the public.

Pati was the dean of the Rohrer College of Business at Rowan University in New Jersey from 2008-2012. He also was dean of the School of Business at Indiana University Kokomo from 2001-2008. Prior to Indiana University, he was a professor and chair of the Department of Management at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

He has served on the “Peace Through Commerce” Taskforce of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International and is the founding chair of its American Association of State Colleges and Universities and New Deans Learning Affinity groups.

Pati is on the editorial board of several academic journals, including “Benchmarking – An International Journal,” “International Journal of Business Insights and Transformation,” “International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management,” “The Journal of International Politics and Development,” “International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering,” and “International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking,” for which he also is the associate editor. Recently, he guest-edited two issues of the “International Journal of Business Insights and Transformation”: “Sustainability Processes and Practices in Business Management” in 2011, and “Achieving Sustainability through Innovation” in 2012. Pati will be editor-in-chief of a new publication, “International Journal of Family Business and Regional Development.”

Pati earned doctoral and master’s degrees from Northwestern University, a Master of Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Technology degree with distinction from Ranchi University in India. He received the Distinguished Hoosier award from Indiana’s governor in 2007, one of the highest civilian awards conferred in the state.

For more information on Pati’s lecture, contact Greg Kuhlemeyer at gkuhleme@carrollu.edu.

About Carroll University
Carroll, Wisconsin’s oldest four-year institution of higher learning, is an independent, co-educational comprehensive university grounded in the liberal arts tradition. Incorporated in 1846, it offers bachelor’s degrees in 57 majors and master’s degrees in business administration, education, exercise physiology, graphic communication, nursing, physician assistant studies and software engineering, as well as a clinical doctorate in physical therapy. For more information, visit www.carrollu.edu.