How can we “balance the growth of business with the needs of society to produce genuine shared benefit?" That is the "Challenge for Business and Society" that Stanley Litow is determined to address...but he's not just talking:

Stan had a 30-year career as IBM’s Vice President of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President of IBM’s Foundation. Under his leadership, IBM has been widely regarded as the global leader in Corporate Citizenship, and praised for societal and environmental leadership, labor practices, and civic leadership.

Some of the programs he helped IBM to pioneer were:

-Innovative voice recognition technology to help children and adults learn to read

-A humanitarian virtual supercomputer to speed research on cancer and AIDS -New digital imaging technology to improve water quality

-IBM’s Corporate Service Corps, a corporate version of the Peace Corps, to train and deploy thousands of IBM’s future leaders

-The Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), a grade 9 through 14 schools initiative to engage companies, colleges, communities and schools to help strengthen America’s economic competitiveness by connecting education to jobs

-IBM’s Smarter Cities Challenge, which is helping 100 cities worldwide become more effective

Lou Gerstner, fair to say a business legend for his turnaround at IBM, wrote the foreword to Stan’s book saying that Stan was “everything [he] needed to reinvigorate IBM’s long-standing commitment to public service.” High praise, from a legend.

Tune in to this EVOLution of Business podcast to hear about how Stan is trying to create a chorus of voices to change the narrative on how business has had a positive impact on society and how to address the ongoing "Challenge for Business And Society" to work together to solve some of the most pressing needs of our present and future.