The Zicklin Center supports Wharton faculty, graduate students and other scholarly partners undertaking research projects that focus on the new role business can play in development innovation, and multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder approaches to that new role. Issues are examined through the lenses of business ethics, transparency, accountability, and corporate responsibility. The Center also organizes action-oriented knowledge, as well as colloquia, lectures, seminars and other speaker events. With this group, we support the design and implementation of specific innovative Business and Development Innovation pilot projects with high-scalability potential , and the delivery of capacity-development programs.

 

 

The activities are organized under three areas.

 

 

I. Insight and Innovation from the Next Generation of Business Leaders This area recognizes the ideas, inspiration, and innovation of the next generation of business and public leaders and practitioners who will assume the responsibility for and burden of sustainable development and shared prosperity. Further information about this group may be found here.

 

 

II. Multi-Stakeholders’ Social Responsibility, Collaborative Development, and Anti-Corruption Innovative Strategies This area examines the effect of corruption on mature economies as well as on emerging ones, and actions that governments, businesses and people acting as such can take to combat corruption.

 

 

For further information, see the following links:

 

Government, Public, and Private-Sector Responsibility

 

National Shared Prosperity and CSR Strategies

 

Grafting and Implementing Collective-Action Initiatives

 

Business-Led Collective Action against Corruption

 

Geography of Integrity and Competitiveness

 

Strategic Compliance and Strategy

 

 

III. Shared Prosperity and the Post-2015 Agenda This area focuses on Ethical, Integrity, Social and Sustainability Issues in Development, Financial Services, and Investments. It resurrects the idea of workable development goals and objectives, grounded in the insights and innovations of those who carry and will carry the responsibility of achieving those goals and objectives. For further information, see the following links: The New Role of Multilateral Development Organizations (World Bank, Regional Development Banks, OAS, etc.), Donor Agencies, and Foundations Post 2015 Financing for Development Innovations at the Low Income and BoPSegments Social Impact and Financial Inclusion