Social Enterprise Symposium: Transforming Business for the Global Good
5 – 9 p.m. Thursday, March 25
Frank Auditorium, 1524 Van Munching Hall

Keynote Speaker

Stanley S. Litow
Vice President, Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President, IBM International Foundation

Stanley S. Litow is IBM's Vice President of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President of IBM's Foundation. He heads global corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility at IBM. Under his leadership, IBM has been widely regarded as a global leader in Corporate Social Responsibility and prized for its societal and environmental leadership, its labor practices and civic leadership. Under Stan, IBM has developed innovative voice recognition technology to help non-literate children and adults learn to read, automatic language translation and bilingual email, open source technology to help people with disabilities access the web, a humanitarian grid to power research on Cancer and AIDS and new digital imaging technology to improve water quality. He helped devise IBM's Global Citizen's Portfolio consisting of matching accounts for learning and The Corporate Service Corps a corporate version of the Peace Corps that trains thousands of IBM's future leaders. IBM's efforts in education have raised student achievement and won the company two Ron Brown Awards presented by the President.

Before joining IBM, he served as Deputy Chancellor of Schools for New York City, the nation's largest school system, and prior to that he founded and ran Interface, the non- profit "think tank" and served as an aide to both the Mayor and Governor of New York.

His articles and essays have appeared in numerous books and publications including the Yale Law Review, Annual Survey of American Law, Brookings Papers, the American Academy of Sciences, the Journal for the Center for National Policy, Education Week, Harvard Business School’s Working Papers, New York Times and Newsday.

Stanley is a recipient of the Council on Foundation's prestigious Scrivner Award for creative philanthropy and awards from the Anne Frank Center, Martin Luther King Commission, Manhattanville College, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Coro Foundation, Helen Keller Services to the Blind, and the Women's City Club. He has taught at New School University, the City University of New York and Long Island University. Corporate Responsibility Officer Magazine voted him CEO of the Year for 2008 and 2009.

He served on the President's Welfare to Work Commission, and now serves on the board of Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, Citizen's Budget Commission, The After School Corporation and the Albert Shanker Institute.