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Employment & Social Development Canada’s Investment Readiness Program

The Investment Readiness Program (IRP) is a 2-year $50 million pilot program designed to help advance Social Innovation and Social Finance (SI/SF) in Canada by building on existing supports to help catalyze community-led solutions to persistent social and environmental challenges. The pilot will provide a learning opportunity to inform future direction on how best to […]

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Warwick MBA Entrance Essay #1: Main Interests and Experiences that Influenced your Development.

Four years ago, I wrote: “Conducting business toward a more sustainable, inclusive society is my main interest and the result of two life experiences: early exposure to entrepreneurial business and being a marginalized youth in Canada.” “My father, an MBA educated entrepreneur, peeked my curiosity of the entrepreneurial spirit when I started working with him […]

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My Warwick MBA Entrance Essay #4: Describe One Major Accomplishment & One Major Setback…

One of my major accomplishments is raising the philanthropic capital to fund Multi-Activity-Centers, to implement psycho-social support programming designed to provide non-formal education for three-thousand displaced youth, in the Za’atai refugee camp, at the height of the Syrian Humanitarian crisis, 2013. The partnership consisted of a private family foundation, two government umbrella organizations, a provincial […]

Sneaking on to the Subway with Holes in my Shoes

It’s peculiar to look back. I started Warwick Business School working for Save The Children Canada, hungry to change the world, yet lacking the skills to mobilize the scale to do so. Not only has my experience through the Warwick MBA brought me the confidence to add value to every situation I find myself in, […]

Warwick Business School Named the Global Leader for Sustainability

For the second year in a row Warwick Business School’s MBA programme has been declared the best in the world for sustainability and advancing environmental and social goals in business. Corporate Knights’ 2019 Better World MBA ranking focuses on the programmes that educate students on sustainability and responsible business, with WBS coming top out of […]