Thesis Schmesis
We had the most amazing speaker at my program's weekly colloquium lecture today: Professor Stuart Hart, from (surprisingly) the Johnson School of Management.
Basically, he's created a template for corporate re-structuring (mental as well as operational) that can address social issues such as poverty and waste reduction in such a way that it REDUCES THE FIRMS' COSTS. And he has multiple examples of companies who have done so, and reduced their costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars. He's making it PROFITABLE for corporations to do GOOD THINGS. Who'd've thunk it?!
Good lord, he was super inspirational.
Shit. Now I REALLY have NO idea what to write my thesis on. At first I was thinking something to do with welfare policy...my advisor wants me to do something on homelessness, because of my work this summer, but honestly, I'm really not that jazzed about that. I mean, it would be convenient, because of my connections, but...I dunno.
I've got some background in what Hart spoke on today, in terms of bottom-up rather than top-down managerial organization...I did an awesome independent study on democratizing research with Davydd Greenwood, one of my most favorite professors ever, who I'm pretty sure is involved in the center that Hart founded at CU (the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise).
Dammit, why do I have to be interested in too many things??!!
Basically, he's created a template for corporate re-structuring (mental as well as operational) that can address social issues such as poverty and waste reduction in such a way that it REDUCES THE FIRMS' COSTS. And he has multiple examples of companies who have done so, and reduced their costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars. He's making it PROFITABLE for corporations to do GOOD THINGS. Who'd've thunk it?!
Good lord, he was super inspirational.
Shit. Now I REALLY have NO idea what to write my thesis on. At first I was thinking something to do with welfare policy...my advisor wants me to do something on homelessness, because of my work this summer, but honestly, I'm really not that jazzed about that. I mean, it would be convenient, because of my connections, but...I dunno.
I've got some background in what Hart spoke on today, in terms of bottom-up rather than top-down managerial organization...I did an awesome independent study on democratizing research with Davydd Greenwood, one of my most favorite professors ever, who I'm pretty sure is involved in the center that Hart founded at CU (the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise).
Dammit, why do I have to be interested in too many things??!!