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12:25-12:30 PM
Welcome Remarks
Sandra Navalli ’03BUS, OAM
Sandra Navalli ’03BUS, OAM
Managing Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School
Sandra Navalli is the managing director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia University. The center trains the next generation of leaders to address social and environmental challenges, by supporting the creation and communication of new ideas, and by providing curricular and extra-curricular opportunities for students. Focus areas include social entrepreneurship, international development and emerging markets, public and nonprofit management, corporate responsibility and sustainability. Under the center, the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures provides seed grants to nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid early-stage social and environmental ventures. Sandra has over a decade of experience in the social impact field, and previously worked in business and product development for an education technology social venture, management consulting, microeconomic policy, and in corporate law. She received an MBA from Columbia Business School and honors degrees in economics and in law from the Australian National University.
Managing Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School
12:30-1:30 PM
How Goldman Sachs Is Addressing the 'S' in ESG Investing
Sources of Capital
Throughout the evolution of SRI and ESG investing, institutional investors have focused in on ‘E’ (environmental) and ‘G’ (governance) factors, which are arguably easier to define and quantify their impact and return on investment. However, the tide has changed. Large capital commitments from companies, institutional investors, and philanthropic donors have funded a movement towards elevating the ‘S’ (social) in ESG.
Hear from Asahi Pompey, ’97LAW, global head of corporate engagement at Goldman Sachs, on how she is deploying capital to level the playing field and spark economic growth for people and communities around the world. Pompey will share insights on how she is unlocking potential at the firm through catalytic capital investments in their community engagement programs: 10,000 Small Businesses, 10,000 Women, One Million Black Women, Goldman Sachs Gives, and Community TeamWorks.
Asahi Pompey ’97LAW
Asahi Pompey ’97LAW
Global Head of Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sachs
Asahi Pompey is global head of corporate engagement and president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. She is a member of the management committee, the global inclusion and diversity committee, and a sponsor of the Firmwide Black Network.
Prior to assuming her current role, Ms. Pompey was co-chief compliance officer of Goldman, Sachs & Co and global head of investment banking division compliance, and had responsibility for conduct risk. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 and was named managing director in 2010 and partner in 2018.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Pompey was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where she worked in the New York and Frankfurt offices.
Ms. Pompey serves on the board of managers for Swarthmore College. She also serves on the advisory boards of Forbes’ Next 1,000, Glamour Women of the Year, and the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream.
Global Head of Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sachs
Dan Wang
Dan Wang
Co-director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
Dan Wang is Associate Professor of Business and (by courtesy) Sociology at Columbia Business School, where he is also the incoming faculty co-director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. His research examines how social networks drive social and economic transformation through the analysis of global migration, social movements, organizational innovation, and entrepreneurship. He teaches the core MBA Strategy Formulation course, an elective MBA course on Technology Strategy, a PhD seminar on Organizational Theory. He also teaches in several Executive Education programs on social networks and technology strategy. He earned his BA from Columbia University (Columbia College) and PhD from Stanford University.
He received the 2020 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Core and the 2018 Singhvi Prize for Scholarship in the Classroom, Columbia Business School’s top teaching honor conferred by the graduating MBA class. He was also named to Poets and Quants’ 2018 list of “Best 40 Business School Professors under 40.” In 2021, he received the Robert W. Lear Service Award, given by the graduating class for his commitment to the MBA student body.
Wang’s research lies at the intersection of business and society with a focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. One of his main research streams focuses on the global migration of high-skilled individuals. Specifically, Wang studies “reverse brain drain”, or how the return migration of skilled professionals spreads ideas, technologies, and new ventures to different parts of the world. Another research area focuses on how social protest and activism create an interface between business and society. In this work, Wang has analyzed collaboration networks across social movements to predict innovation, knowledge sharing, strategic choices, and protest scope across activist groups. Finally, in ongoing work on entrepreneurship, he has analyzed the implications of different network structures of venture capital syndication for the innovation output and financial performance of startups.
His work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Social Forces, Social Networks, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Theory and Society. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Strategic Management Journal and Special Issue Editor for Organization Science and has served as a Consulting Editor for The American Journal of Sociology. He is co-editor of the book series, Elements in the Structural Analysis of Culture, Social Organization, and History with Cambridge University Press. His work has been cited in The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR and has been recognized with multiple awards from the Academy of Management. He has also been awarded both the Dissertation (2012) and Junior Faculty Fellowship (2017) from the Kauffman Foundation. He has also contributed to practitioner-oriented publications such as Strategy+Business, and written op eds for CNN.
Co-director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School
1:30–1:35 PM
Closing Remarks
Sandra Navalli ’03BUS, OAM
Sandra Navalli ’03BUS, OAM
Managing Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School
Sandra Navalli is the managing director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia University. The center trains the next generation of leaders to address social and environmental challenges, by supporting the creation and communication of new ideas, and by providing curricular and extra-curricular opportunities for students. Focus areas include social entrepreneurship, international development and emerging markets, public and nonprofit management, corporate responsibility and sustainability. Under the center, the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures provides seed grants to nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid early-stage social and environmental ventures. Sandra has over a decade of experience in the social impact field, and previously worked in business and product development for an education technology social venture, management consulting, microeconomic policy, and in corporate law. She received an MBA from Columbia Business School and honors degrees in economics and in law from the Australian National University.
Managing Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School