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Colorado State University's College of Business has
named Carl Hammerdorfer as its first director for the Master of Science
in Business Administration degree with a new concentration in Global Social and Sustainable
Enterprise. The program is designed to address the global challenges of
poverty, environmental degradation and poor health.
Hammerdorfer received his MBA from Colorado State University in 2000. For
the past five years, he has served as country director for the Peace Corps
in Bulgaria.
"Carl brings significant experience and first-hand knowledge about some of
the greatest challenges facing the globe," said Ajay Menon, dean of the
College of Business. "His work with the Peace Corps will help students in
the GSSE master's program gain a deeper understanding of these problems and
the complexities required to find solutions to them."
"My work in Bulgaria, a critical Balkan country, has confirmed my belief
that, if you really want to generate lasting change, then you need work at
the enterprise level," Hammerdorfer said. "Nothing is as sustainable as a
company that makes and sells useful products or services, provides jobs,
pays taxes and practices good citizenship."
Hammerdorfer has a strong history with the Peace Corps. From 1988-1990, he
worked with Peace Corps in Mali, Africa, as a water resource management
volunteer. In addition to digging wells, he wrote, performed and produced a
professional record containing nine educational songs in the Bambara
language that received national radio play in Mali for several years. He
also fluently speaks German, French and Bulgarian.
Prior to his work in Bulgaria, Hammerdorfer worked as the CEO of MainStreet
Cooperative Group, an innovative incubator for small entrepreneurial
enterprises wishing to leverage the cooperative business model through group
purchasing, marketing and shared best practices.
This spring, students can begin enrolling for Colorado State's 18-month
master's degree that will teach students to use entrepreneurial, sustainable
approaches to solve global challenges in energy, agriculture, health,
environmental management and economic development.
GSSE students will take traditional master's level courses in marketing,
finance, leadership and entrepreneurship, but all courses have been designed
with deeper coverage of cross-cultural issues, non-profit perspectives and
environmental and social policy implications.
"Colorado State University has a wonderful history of creating international
enterprises," Menon said. "The roots of the Peace Corps started here in the
1950s. The Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise degree continues that
tradition. We can provide students with the training to go into these parts
of the world and create new enterprises. Imagine if we take that $1 a day
that people earn and double that. You're suddenly dealing with a huge market
opportunity."
For more information about the Global Social and Sustainable Enterprise, go
to www.csugsse.org
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