A Conversation on Entrepreneurship and Social Justice

Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 11:45 AM until 1:15 PMUTC -05:00


Chicago Booth Harper Center, Room C25
5807 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
United States

A Conversation on Entrepreneurship and Social Justice
What if everyone had ready access to the resources they needed to stay well and live long?

Join the Social Enterprise Initiative for a conversation on entrepreneurship and social justice moderated by Chicago Booth deputy dean Stacey Kole with NowPow’s Dr. Stacy Lindau and Rachel Kohler, MBA ’89.
NowPow is a social impact company and technology platform that connects healthcare providers, care professionals, and individuals with community resources that provide health and social services. The company grew out of CommunityRx, an initiative led by Dr. Stacy Lindau's lab at the University of Chicago that was funded by a federal innovation award. Join the Social Enterprise Initiative for this moderated discussion to learn how NowPow and the Lindau Lab share a commitment to engineering sustainable solutions to social injustice.

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Stacy Tessler Lindau, AM '02
Associate Professor, The University of Chicago; Director, Research and Innovation, University of Chicago Medicine; Founder, NowPow, LLC

Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau is a tenured Associate Professor of Ob/Gyn, Medicine-Geriatrics, the Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the MacLean Center on Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. She directs the South Side Health and Vitality Studies, a family of inter-related community-engaged research efforts, including CommunityRx and MAPSCorps, to inform investments and innovations in urban health and health care, especially for lower income populations.

CommunityRx is a large-scale population health intervention supported by a Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The CommunityRx project originated from the Lindau Laboratory at the University of Chicago and in collaboration with South Side community health centers, community development leaders, the Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center at Northwestern University and the Alliance of Chicago Community Health Services. CommunityRx leverages health information technologies to link people and places to improve individual health and grow community economic vitality. CommunityRx starts with the patient-health care provider encounter where a patient receives a HealtheRx. The HealtheRx is a health and wellness e-prescription that matches health information from a patient’s electronic medical record to self-care services, including a trained community health information navigator who works in the patient’s community. 
 
Under the terms of the CMS funding opportunity, awardees were expected to develop a sustainable business model which will continue and support the model that was tested after award funding ends. To this end, Dr. Lindau founded NowPow, LLC, a social enterprise working in partnership with MAPSCorps, not-for-profit corporation to test a collective social impact model for sustainability.

Rachel D. Kohler, MBA ’89

Rachel D. Kohler is the CEO of NowPow, a knowledge utility company that powers underserved communities by providing people the vital information they need to stay well and live long. Kohler worked for Kohler Co. for 22 years, serving most recently as its group president – interiors, managing a portfolio of high-end home furnishings businesses. She continues to serve on Kohler’s Board of Directors and is a member of the Kohler Foundation.

She is a trustee at the University of Chicago, the University of Chicago Medical Center, and is chairman of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She is also on the board of LPMC Foundation, an organization supporting music education programs for youth in underserved areas of Chicago.
 Prior to her position at Kohler, Kohler worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton, a management consulting firm, and at First Boston, an investment bank now known as Credit Suisse. Kohler holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Stacey R. Kole, AM ’86, PhD ’92

Stacey R. Kole is Deputy Dean for Alumni, Corporate Relations and the Full-time MBA Program and Clinical Professor of Economics. Her research interests cover policies and practices that dictate behavior within organizations and its relation to firm performance.

Her publications include "Workforce Integration and the Dissipation of Value in Mergers: The Case of USAir's Acquisition of Piedmont Aviation," with Kenneth Lehn, in Mergers and Productivity, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2000; "Deregulation and the Adaptation of Governance Structure: The Case of U.S. Airlines Industry," with Kenneth Lehn published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 1999; and "The Complexity of Compensation Contracts" in the 1997 Journal of Financial Economics.

She previously served as a member of the faculty associate dean for MBA Programs at the University of Rochester's Simon School of Business. Prior to her career in academics, Kole was a financial economist in the Office of Economic Analysis, at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Kole received a bachelor's degree in history and economics from the University of Rochester in 1982. She received her PhD in economics in 1992 from the University of Chicago.

This event is part of UChicago Innovation Fest. Innovation Fest is a three-week celebration of the University of Chicago’s entrepreneurial and innovative advances and solutions, kicks off May 12 and runs through June 2, with more than 35 sessions scheduled across the city and UChicago’s downtown and Hyde Park campuses. Join us to share big solutions to problems in Chicago and across the globe, find new collaborators, and rub shoulders with leaders in business, health care, tech, and social and environmental policy. Highlights of this year’s celebration include the 20th anniversary of the Polsky Center’s Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge, a behind-the-scenes look at life as an entrepreneur at the university’s Chicago Innovation Exchange, and events featuring faculty who are bringing groundbreaking advances out of the lab and classroom. 

 

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