Business Development & Innovation
Djordjija Petkoski, Lecturer in the Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department and Senior Fellow of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, is the faculty member responsible for leading the Business Development & Innovation Pillar in the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research. 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.
Call for Proposals
Building Capacity to Combat COVID-19 in Africa:
Ideas and Innovations from Young Entrepreneurs
The Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and its many partners are issuing a call for proposals for a new initiative: Building Capacity to Combat COVID-19 in Africa: Ideas and Innovations from Young Entrepreneurs.
The initiative is open to students and young professionals (ages 18 to 35 years old) from around the world interested in offering innovative ideas for an effective private and public sector response to the COVID-19 pandemic in countries throughout Africa.
Participants are asked to develop ideas related to policy changes, startups, technology or community-based initiatives. Participants should submit their proposal through the portal on the Ideas for Action website, https://ideas4action.org. The details for the submission requirements may be found on the Ideas 4 Action website. Following submission, proposals will be reviewed based on their significance, originality, feasibility and clarity. Active support and mentorship will be provided, along with feedback and networking opportunities. Teams will also be featured on our website, providing a broader platform for engagement. Teams that need assistance identifying additional team members can access the ‘Request for Team Member’ form on the website, indicating the summary of their idea and the additional skills or capacities they are looking for in a team member.
The final deadline for proposal submission is September 15, 2020. The proposals will be reviewed and offered feedback on a first-come, first-serve basis, starting from the moment we receive the proposal. If you need our support in identifying new team members and finalizing your ideas, please contact us and send a summary of your idea (petkoski@wharton.upenn.edu) by June 20, 2020.
Ideas for Action provides students and young professionals from around the world with a unique opportunity to help shape the international development agenda and to take an active role in changing the world.
A joint program of the World Bank Group and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, Ideas for Action is a knowledge platform connecting young leaders all around the world who are passionate about the future development of our world.
We host an annual competition during which youths from around the world design ideas for financing the UN’s new development agenda. The competition acts as a catalyst to spark global conversation among millennials and seeks to encourage them to contribute their own voice to the development conversation.
We want you to join this conversation. We want you to change the world.
Announcing the 2020 Ideas For Action Competition
The World Bank Group and the Zicklin Center at Wharton are pleased to announce the 2020 Ideas for Action (I4A) competition, which engages young people (18-35 years old) to develop innovative solutions in support of the implementation of the SDGs (https://ideas4action.org). Note that the Competition Guidelines for 2020 will mirror those for 2019 [https://ideas4action.org/2019-competition/]. The deadline for submission is February 29, 2020. Due to the increased interest, in 2019 we received 3,100 applications from 142 countries and territories, and more than 7,000 registered teams, we are moving to a new platform for registration and applications submission, which will be available in the second half of November.
Research Papers
SUBJECT AREA PUBLICATIONS BY FACULTY
Janice Bellace, (2014), Human Rights at Work: The Need for Definitional Coherence in the Global Governance System, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 30(2), 175-198.
Janice Bellace, (2014), Hoisted on Their Own Petard? Business and Human Rights, Journal of Industrial Relations (Australia),56(3), 443-458.
Mahmoud Mohieldin and Djordjija Petkoski, (Editors) Financing Sustainable Development, Ideas for Action 2019, The World Bank, 2019.
Mahmoud Mohieldin and Djordjija Petkoski, (Editors) Financing and Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals, Ideas for Action 2018, The World Bank, 2017.
Mahmoud Mohieldin and Djordjija Petkoski, (Editors) Financing Sustainable Development, Ideas for Action 2017, The World Bank, 2017.
Mahmoud Mohieldin and Djordjija Petkoski, (Editors) Financing Sustainable Development, Ideas for Action 2016, The World Bank, 2016.
Events
Connecting the Private Sector to Micro-Entrepreneurs and Celebrating SDGs&Her
Location: United Nations, New York, September 24, 2018
Ideas for Action: Youth Engagement for Financing the Future of Development
Location: Gali Nusa Dua, Indonesia
The Business and Development Innovations Lecture Series
Sustainable Development: Current Trends and Maximizing Impact
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Monday, February 17, 2020
Maximizing Finance for Development to Address Climate Change
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Monday, February 24, 2020
Berangere MAGARINOS-RUCHAT, Firmenich, Chief Sustainability Officer
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2020
Maximizing Finance for Development to Address Climate Change
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Monday, October 7, 2019
Maximizing Finance for Development: Scaling Up Private Sector Investments
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Firmenich Inclusive Business Journey: A Leading Family Owned Company Driving a Responsible Transformation
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Entrepreneurship and Ethics in Real Estate Private Equity
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Monday, December 3, 2018
A Historic Global Cultural Shift – B Lab
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Monday, February 19, 2018
Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in the Changing World
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Monday, March 12, 2018
Maximizing Finance for Development: Scaling Up Private Sector Investments
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Monday, March 19, 2018
Entrepreneurship and Ethics in Real Estate Private Equity
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
The Cyber Security Challenge: Being Intelligence Led
Location: The Wharton School, Philadelphia – Date: Monday, April 23, 2018
How Youth Can Help Solve the World’s Toughest Problems
Knowledge@Wharton conversation with the World Bank’s Mahmoud Mohieldin and Wharton senior fellow Djordjija Petkoski.