50+20 is a collaborative initiative that seeks to reimagine management education as a force for good. For three days beginning January 23, 2014, the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School hosts the 50+20 Innovation Cohort. Associate Dean Mary Watson is a member of 50+20 and founding member of The New School Social Innovation Initiative.
50+20 Innovation Cohort is a global peer-based laboratory of management educators and organiz
ational leaders innovating and transforming their organizations and offerings in alignment with the 50+20 vision of educating globally responsible leaders, enabling business to be the best for the world instead of best in the world, and engaging with societal and economic transformation. The collaboratory aims to reorient management education towards sustainability.
The New School long a site of public discourse serves as the backdrop for this global movement in socially engaged learning. It is fitting that the installation of The New School University Center—our new space for learning, listening, and exploring—is on the agenda for the 50+20 Innovation Cohort.
Also on the agenda are site visits to innovative projects spotlighting the work of Milano faculty, students, and alumni including Corbin Hill Food Project (faculty and founder Dennis Derryck, alumnus Krishna Omolade), Red Hook Community Justice Center (faculty Erica Kohl-Arenas, alumna Summer Leeper), Centre for Social Innovation (faculty Michele Kahane, alumna Allie Mahler), nonprofits at Thoreau Center (Milano Ph.D. student and Parsons faculty Hugh Fox), and Rebuilding Together NYC (faculty John Clinton, alumna Jenn Terry).
The 50+20 Innovation Cohort also plans to meet with Amy Hall, Director of Social Consciousness at Eileen Fisher and Jonas Haertle, Head of the Principles for Responsible Management Education secretariat of the United Nations Global Compact Office.
