Smith Business Close-Up: Building Businesses to Help Haiti
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, March 28, 2010,
7:30 a.m.; Monday, March 29, 2010, 4:30 a.m.
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Building Businesses
to Help Haiti
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For Haiti, still reeling from a devastating earthquake -- and other
developing nations ravaged by disaster -- the primary focus is on
humanitarian aid. But beyond government and philanthropic support,
entrepreneurs could have an impact.
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the
University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Melissa
Carrier, executive director of the Center for Social Value Creation,
discusses how entrepreneurship and innovation can help solve global
challenges.
Increasing, business schools are tackling how social entrepreneurship
can aid in international development. At the Smith School, the Center
for Social Value Creation is teaming up with the U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) for the Global Challenge, a
first-of-its-kind competition that challenges teams of MBA and other
graduate students to develop business solutions that support
international development. Teams will be tasked with devising a new
public-private alliance that allows a private enterprise to meet its
long-term business goals while contributing to international development
initiatives in a specified region. The final event will be held on April
23 in Washington.
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Smith Business Close-Up is co-produced by the Robert H. Smith School of
Business and Maryland Public Television. The television segment focuses on the latest thinking in business management,
and features in-depth interviews with Smith School faculty and other members of
the school’s community of business leaders.
Where to watch
Smith Business Close-Up can be seen bi-weekly on Maryland Public
Television's Your Business and Money. The program airs at 7:30 p.m. on
Thursdays and is repeated the following Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and Monday at 4:30
a.m. on public television stations throughout Maryland and the Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan region, including:
 WMPB-TV (Ch. 67), Baltimore
WMPT-TV (Ch. 22), DC metro/Annapolis
WCPB-TV (Ch. 28), Salisbury
WFPT-TV (Ch. 62), Frederick
WWPB-TV (Ch. 31), Hagerstown
WGPT-TV (Ch. 36), Oakland
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