“The Long Island Way” of Doing Business: M.B.A. Student Help
Non-Profit Organization Make a Difference

Brookville, NY – Graduate students studying social entrepreneurship at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University have teamed up with Long Island Way to help the non-profit organization increase operational effectiveness.

The Long Island Way, which is a non-profit organization that partners with more than 50 charities on Long Island, is working with Dr. James Freeley’s M.B.A. class in a Mentor/Participant Program. As in previous semesters, the students act as consultants, providing business advice to Long Island Way’s local non-profit organizations and partnering businesses in such areas as operations, finance, sales, marketing, human resources and training techniques. The M.B.A. students are also helping to determine key target markets for recruiting business executives to join The Long Island Way’s Cause Champions program.

Students in the master’s-level course are taught to place social responsibility equal to profit. Dr. Freeley invites professionals who practice this business philosophy to guest lecture in his class. This semester, speakers have included: Shah Newaz, senior vice president of Grameen America Bank, which was founded to provide microloans to the poor, and Edward Bergman, co-founder of Miracle Corners of the World, which has established youth centers in various African countries, also served as a guest lecturers.

For more than 25 years, Dr. Freeley has been involved with various aspects of the field of entrepreneurship and is the author of articles, papers and books on the subject. The Social Entrepreneurship project Dr. Freeley conducts with his M.B.A. class has been featured in Long Island Business News and Entrepreneur magazine. He is also involved in a multi-year video project of interviewing successful Long Island entrepreneurs, which will be made available to current and future students.

For more information, contact Dr. Freeley at (718) 263-4143.

Posted: April 14, 2009