Tipping Point

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2008-10-13 14:46:00 UTC
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Registration has been backed up for hours. People are emailing begging to pay the full $1000+ registration price tag to be included. More than 450 of the 600 attendees registered after the fall of Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. So much for irrational pessimism.

There is a sense here, not that the market failure dominating the news isn't serious, but that this just might be the wake up call that jumpstarts the conversation about recreating our financial institutions to better understand and value social benefit creation as an integral element of the way we conduct business. Its actually pretty friggin inspiring.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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