Collaboration across sectors is at the core of the Boston College Center’s new initiative to help business more effectively contribute to solving the problems of education in the United States. But bridging the usual competitive divide between companies will be just as critical to successfully delivering value to an enterprise more important than any single company. Read the rest of this entry »

Young writers are often advised to “write what you know.” An imagined perspective can never match real-life point of view when trying to tell an authentic story on any subject.

So if you want to know what the story is with the mystery of successful business investment in education, IBM’s Stan Litow is your man. As a product of the New York City public schools, an education activist, a former deputy chancellor of New York’s school system and IBM’s vice president for corporate citizenship and corporate affairs and president of the IBM International Foundation – the point man in its efforts to improve education – Litow has lived this saga on both sides. Read the rest of this entry »