HBS Club of Connecticut

The Board of Directors of the HBS Club of Connecticut Community Partners cordially invites you to an evening to celebrate leadership in social enterprises, recognize the accomplishments of practitioners in this sector, including HBS alumni and volunteers and engage in a thoughtful discussion with experts who have made a difference in this field. The proceeds from this event will support a scholarship to send an Executive Director of a Connecticut-based nonprofit to Harvard Business School in July 2011 for an intensive executive education program called "Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM)."

Peter L. Malkin
Chairman of Malkin Holdings LLC, Malkin Properties
and their affiliates

Mark F. Rockefeller, Founder and Chairman of Legacy Connect
and
Richard D. Segal, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of Seavest, Inc.

“….The leadership, competence, and management of the social sector nonprofit organization will……determine the values, vision….and performance of the 21st century society."

The social sector is approaching a tipping point all around the world. If the last century was one of economic growth, the 21st century has the prospect of coupling wealth with well-being, and bringing to the fore the people and innovation processes by which we can sustain social resilience. While there are many approaches to social change, social entrepreneurs are in the vanguard of this shift, innovating, growing new models, and demonstrating how others can be more effective.

During this panel discussion we will explore the key determinants of superior performance in social enterprises and nonprofit organizations, through the prism of top management and/or board leadership. We will examine the challenges of social enterprise leadership to build a transformed world reflecting a future in which social, political, and economic reform create a better life, not just a more prosperous one. What are the qualities of leadership required to bring about this transformed world? We will consider the applicability of for-profit management approaches to nonprofit organizational challenges as well as how to adapt them to the unique dimensions of a nonprofit organization.

Our panel represents leaders from innovative organizations that have leveraged new approaches to drive results as they seek to overcome the most urgent social challenges facing us today. Our panelists will discuss how innovative leadership practices they have adopted could help the social sector.

Professor Nancy F. Koehn is James E. Robison chair of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.

Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where her research focuses on entrepreneurial leadership and how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact. She is currently working on a book about the most important leadership lessons from Abraham Lincoln’s journey and another on social entrepreneurs. Her most recent book. The Story of American Business: From the Pages of the New York Times (Harvard Business Press, 2009), examines the people, events, and larger forces that have shaped business in the twenty-first century.

At the Harvard Business School, she teaches the MBA elective Entrepreneurial Leadership in Turbulent Times. For many years she taught The Coming of Managerial Capitalism, one of the School's most popular courses. Before coming to HBS, Koehn was a member of Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences for seven years, first as a graduate student in history and then as a lecturer in the History and Literature concentration and the Department of Economics. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Koehn earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government before taking her MA and PhD in History from Harvard.

Peter L. Malkin is Chairman of Malkin Holdings LLC, Malkin Properties, and their affiliates.

Mr. Malkin was associated with the late Lawrence A. Wien (his father-in-law) for 30 years in the acquisition, ownership, and operation of real estate, until Mr. Wien's death in 1988. He has had interests in more than 100 property investments throughout the United States and is general partner or manager in investment entities that own and operate approximately 11,400,000 square feet of office, showroom and retail space and 2,700 apartment units.

Mr. Malkin is the Founding Chairman of the Grand Central Partnership, Inc., the largest Business Improvement District, and of the 34th Street Partnership, Inc. the second largest Business Improvement District and a Founder, and former Director/Secretary of the Fashion Business Improvement District.

Mr. Malkin is a member of the Executive Committee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Co-Chair of the Real Estate and Construction Council, Co-Chairman Emeritus of the Real Estate Council of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chairman of the Dean's Council and Capital Campaign of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, co-founder and Honorary Co-Chair of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, a Director Emeritus of U.S. Trust Corporation, a Vice President and Director of the Realty Foundation of New York and a Partner in the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce, a Governor Emeritus of The Real Estate Board of New York and, and a former member of the Mayor's Business Advisory Committee during the administration of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College and Trustee Emeritus of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, amongst other business, civic and charitable organizations.

Mr. Malkin received his B.A. Degree summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College in 1955 and his Law Degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1958.

Mr. Rockefeller is the Founder and Chairman of Legacy Connect, a start-up social impact investment, which aims to transform how consumers engage in philanthropy and thus become the leading destination for online charitable giving.

Mr. Rockefeller currently serves as the Vice-Chairman of Rockefeller Financial where he is also the Chairman of the Finance Committee. Rockefeller Financial is the Rockefeller Family wealth and investment management business with approximately $24 billion of assets under administration. Mr. Rockefeller is also a member of the Limited Partner Advisory Committee of the family founded venture capital firm Venrock.

Independently, Mr. Rockefeller is an investor and entrepreneur with a focus on building businesses in the fields of brand and business consulting; marketing and communication services; social technology consulting; and Web-application development. Prior to developing an independent business career, Mr. Rockefeller was an Associate in the Acquisition Finance Group at Chase Securities and spent two years as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc.

Mr. Rockefeller also has a strong interest in the environment, conservation, and historic preservation. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Historic Hudson Valley. His enormous passion and interest in the outdoors led to the development of The South Fork Lodge and Outfitters and Henry's Fork Anglers which he currently owns, two of the premier fly-fishing resort and outfitting destinations in the Rocky Mountains.

Mr. Rockefeller holds a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Rockefeller resides in Manhattan with his wife (Renee) and 4 children (Nolen, Anna, Teddy, and Felix) and is a member of the Princeton Club, Harvard Club, Sleepy Hollow Country Club, and Anglers Club in New York.

Richard D. Segal founded the investment firm of Seavest Inc. in 1981 to provide wealth management and family office services to the Segal family and a small group of other private investors. Today, he serves as Chairman and CEO of Seavest Inc. which while still functioning as a family office for the Segal family, has evolved into a boutique investment management firm focused on developing, acquiring and managing healthcare real estate properties.

Mr. Segal serves as chairman of the board of directors of Nat Nast Inc., a designer of men's luxury apparel, and as a member of the board of directors of SchoolNet Inc., a provider of software solutions for public school systems).

He is the Chairman of the Hole in the Wall Association (Paul Newman's camps for children with cancer),President of the A.L. Mailman Family Foundation, a charitable foundation focused on early childhood care and education. He serves as a Trustee of Nova Southeastern University, New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Nasher Museum at Duke University, and the New York Presbyterian Heart Center Steering Committee. He is Chairman Emeritus of Publicolor and a Trustee Emeritus of the Big Apple Circus. He attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT and graduated cum laude in 1975.