Text Box: Managing Innovation, Innovating Management Text Box: The Blum Center for Developing Economies, housed at the Institute, was initiated in April 2006 through a $15 million gift from Haas alumnus Richard C. Blum that includes a $5 million challenge grant. Serving as the nexus on the Berkeley campus for cultivating targeted new education programs and convening resources to combat global poverty, the Blum Center focuses on implementing solutions extrapolated from cutting-edge research while engaging students in transformative service programs. With a focus on developing innovative projects in specific countries, Berkeley students will explore the tremendous potential and challenges created by international aid. George Scharffenberger is the center’s executive director. Text Box: Blum Center to Support Developing Economies, Tackle Global Poverty Text Box: Blum Center Initiatives Set Text Box: The Blum Center has selected its first project initiatives — the East Africa Healthcare Initiative and the Initiative on Safe Water and Sanitation. The former will be initially focus on Uganda; the latter project includes support for a portfolio of activities in six countries: India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico. Both projects address poor health status, which is both a leading cause and a debilitating impact of global poverty. Consistent with the Blum Center's objectives, each project employs UC Berkeley-developed technologies and expertise, and both provide hands-on service-learning opportunities for students. The projects also leverage existing partnerships in host countries to increase the likelihood of success, broaden impact and promote sustainability. For more info: http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/initiatives/ Text Box: Institute of Management, Innovation & Organization Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley

Summer 2007

 Management and
 Innovation News
Text Box: Highlights inside: Richard Blum

The Center is endowed by
Haas alumnus and UC Regent Richard C. Blum
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The Blum Center has two purposes: (1) address the needs of the poor in developing countries by leveraging the depth and breadth of the University of California; and (2) prepare students with theoretical and applied knowledge, enabling them to contribute to global efforts to end extreme poverty.  The Center also focuses on encouraging entrepreneurship that can enhance the development of effective and sustainable solutions.  It draws on the expertise from faculty at other University of California campuses to assemble multidisciplinary teams to work on projects in the field.  For more info:  http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/

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