Marcel Minutolo lunch lecture

Department Head of Management, School of Business, Robert Morris University

The Harvard Club is planning to host another stimulating season of luncheon lectures at The Allegheny HYP Club, 619 William Place (www.alleghenyhypclub.com).  Lunch is $20 for members of the Harvard Club and students ($25 for non-members) and runs from 12:00 to 1:30 PM.

Please call Amanda (412-281-5858) at the Allegheny HYP Club for reservations.  You may pay at the door.   

 
Details about this lecture: 
 
Nonprofits are generally conceptualized as a net-zero operation and sell their programs through “stories” on an annual bases in order to ensure annual fund raising and grant awards. The nature of the domain makes it such that competition in the sense that we imagine in the for-profit domain is nonexistent. In this talk, Dr. Minutolo presents work underway that argues for the re-conceptualization of nonprofits as either creating or destroying social profit. The re-conceptualization suggests the creation of a market valuation of the amount of social profit created that becomes marketable and, perhaps, even tradable. Ultimately, the creation of social profits is something that is transferable to for-profit organizations and may form the basis of competition.
 

Marcel Minutolo has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and a business development consultant for 15. He is currently the Department Head of Management in the School of Business at Robert Morris University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate course in sustainability and corporate social responsibility. He earned his dissertation for a Doctorate of Philosophy in Business Strategy at the Joseph M Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He has taught course at both the MBA and undergraduate level in strategy, finance, and decision making. He has conference proceedings and publications on technology transfer, mergers and acquisitions, human resources, and decision making. He has consulted with firms on the negotiation of test service agreements, business development plans, and various funding mechanisms into the Department of Defense laboratory systems. His clients have included numerous start-ups, large firms, as well as state and federal organizations. Dr. Minutolo has spent four years in conflict resolution between the Palestinians and Israelis and he is also a former military intelligence company commander with multiple deployments.