Main Location: Verona
Dates: 25 June - 13 July 2018
Academic Director: Robert Strand, UC Berkeley
Centennial companies, of the kind established in the Old World, have often been started to achieve founders’ dreams of offering the best products to the people.
Purpose has driven their growth as well as the development of their long-lasting resilient organizations.
Achieving goals that are bigger than us, and therefore leveraging a business structure as a platform for social good, is something fostered also today by the flourishing wave of responsible business movements, such as Benefit Corporations, the Triple-Bottom-Line Framework and UN Sustainable Development Goals.
What is it like to run and grow such businesses? What does success mean to them?
Through the comparison of international best practices and Italian claimed sustainable companies, participants in this program will conduct a hands-on introspection to the subject.
Location: Verona and Institutional Headquarters
Date: 25-29 June 2018
Activities are hosted in the Italia Innovation Studio (Verona) and inside the partner institutions headquarters. Nationwide transportation is arranged and covered by the organization, with travels on the same day.
Participants should arrange their accommodation downtown Verona, while occasional overnight stays are directly arranged and covered by the organization.
- 9am - 12pm
- 2pm - 5pm
- Welcome and Program Introduction
- Patagonia's Best Practice
- Workshop 1 - How to Communicate Radical Transparency
- Workshop 2 - Building a Responsible Company
- Workshop 1 - How to Communicate Radical Transparency
- Workshop 2 - Building a Responsible Company
- Site Visit 1
- Case Study Introduction 1
- Site Visit 2
- Case Study Introduction 2
Location: Verona
Dates: 2-6 July 2018
A series of thought and business leaders from the international and local scene will lead multiple workshops in the Verona Innovation Studio.
The class will be led into its deep understanding of the case studies, discovering social needs and innovation opportunities useful and debating its entrepreneurial ideas.
Participants should arrange their accommodation downtown Verona, while occasional overnight stays are directly arranged and covered by the organization.
- 9am - 12pm
- 2pm - 5pm
- Site Visit 3
- Case Study Introduction 3
- Site Visit 4
- Case Study Introduction 3
- Lecture
- Studio Workshop
- Lecture
- Studio Workshop
- Final Remarks in preparation to the Sprint Week
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Location: Verona
Dates: 9-13 July 2018
The final week of the program is led by Jake Knapp, with a week-long design sprint.
With a unique five-day process, participants will solve the toughest problems emerged during their discovery and test their new ideas in partnership with companies and stakeholders.
- 9am - 12pm
- 2pm - 5pm
- Map Workshop
- Map Workshop
- Sketch Workshop
- Sketch Workshop
- Decide Workshop - with partner companies managers
- Decide Workshop - with partner companies managers
- Prototype Workshop
- Prototype Workshop
- Test Workshop
- Program Final Remarks