The WISE-r Perspective of: Alice Tepper Marlin

Please join for a discussion with Alice Tepper Marlin, a pioneer in the sustainable investing industry. We will discuss how Alice helped shape the industry (designed and managed the first social investment portfolio management service in 1969) as well as launched and led (as CEO) several organizations influential in the corporate responsibility space. She is also the author of the best-selling guidebook, "Shopping for a Better World" which sold over one million copies. This conversation should be a great lesson in entrepreneurship, female leadership, building impactful portfolios and empowering consumers to vote with their dollar!

November 10th @ 6:30-7:30pm

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Bio: In 1968, a pension fund in Boston, Massachusetts, asked young securities analyst, Alice Tepper Marlin, to compile a ‘Peace Portfolio’ of corporations with the least involvement in supplying the war in Vietnam. Tepper Marlin found that such information was not easily available, even from the corporations themselves. When her report was completed, more than 600 other church and community groups around the United States asked for the information. Six months later, Tepper Marlin founded the Council on Economic Priorities, CEP, where she served as its President and CEO for 33 years.

CEP was an independent public service organisation, the leading one of its kind in the US, dedicated to analysing some of the major issues confronting society. CEP pioneered the social investment field and its research was concentrated in three areas: national security, energy and the environment, and corporate responsibility. One of the areas of CEP activity with the highest public profile was corporate social responsibility, following its study Rating America's Corporate Conscience (1986). Then came its consumer guide, Shopping for a Better World, which became a best-seller and resulted in articles in over a thousand newspapers.

In 1997, Alice Tepper Marlin and CEP established Social Accountability International (SAI). SAI is a global standards-setting organization dedicated to the ethical treatment of workers worldwide and improving workplaces and communities. Its SA8000 international standard certification for improving working conditions is used by businesses, NGOs, and governments worldwide. The certification allows consumers, buyers and other companies to assess good practice and to assure humane workplaces. Today SAI's main activities are training managers and workers and working with major brands seeking to improve their responsible supply chain management. Over 2 million people work in SA8000 compliant factories and farms, in 65 different industrial sectors, primarily in Asia and Latin America.

Alice Tepper Marlin concluded her term as the 2007-2008 Citi Distinguished Fellow in Ethics and Leadership at NYU's Stern School of Business.

We hope that you can join the conversation with Alice. It promises to be a dynamic and informative discussion and a great learning opportunity.