Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship

ILE’s mission is to enhance leadership and entrepreneurship for socially responsible and sustainable value creation.

ILE Website

http://ile.gatech.edu

Programs & Initiatives

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Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems:
sustainability.gatech.edu/

Georgia Tech Green Buzz: www.gatech.edu/greenbuzz/

Main Georgia Tech Website: www.gatech.edu

Housed in LEED Silver certified building

Georgia Tech’s Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship (ILE) is an interdisciplinary unit that develops leadership capabilities for economic growth, social responsibility, and environmental sustainability. Housed in the College of Management at Technology Square in the state of the art LEED Silver certified building, ILE bridges units across campus to increase and enhance the learning opportunities available to those who aspire to become effective leaders in a complex, global arena. ILE encourages and supports global citizenship and socially responsible leadership among students, staff and faculty. It creates practical learning experiences by maintaining and utilizing alliances with business leaders, non profits, public officials, social proprietors, and other members of the global community.

Trademark programs

David Bornstein
Autor of How to Change the World

ILE, as a College of Management unit, promotes undergrad and graduate courses with focus on entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and leadership. The Institute provides various programs to enhance cross curriculum and cross campus collaboration throughout Georgia Tech. One of these trademark programs, the IMPACT Speaker Series, brings highly successful leaders from all sectors and industries to campus to share their experiences and interact with students and other members of the community within and beyond Georgia Tech. The information and inspiration that has been passed on through high-profile speakers such as Al Gore, Warren Buffett, Jack Welch, Thomas Friedman, Ray Anderson and Bernie Marcus has been very valuable to those who come to listen. See IMPACT page: http://www.ile.gatech.edu/impact.html

Teams from US and international universities come to Georgia Tech to compete in the yearly Business Plan Competition and the Intersections Case Competition hosted by ILE and the College of Management with prize winnings of more than $50,000.

Dr. Terry C. Blum,
Director, Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship

The Bradley-Turner Servant Leadership Program housed by ILE supports student leadership initiatives and co-curricular experiences consistent with the servant leadership tenets designed to develop effective leaders. One of the sponsored projects supports Georgia Tech undergrad Bill Bridgers’ travel to Jordan to work with Habitat for Humanity. Bill, who as a high school student, converted his truck to run on vegetable fuel and travelled across the US on used oil collected from restaurants is set out to transform Habitat’s fleet to run on alternative fuel.

Value recovered from used products via recycling, remanufacturing or repair operations

ILE also supports outstanding faculty research within the College of Management on topics such as sustainable supply chain management where emphasis is on value recovered from used products via recycling, remanufacturing or repair operations. This research will have effect on business and the environment by developing and disseminating closed-loop value chain strategies of economic and environmental value (see Dr. Toktay’s, and Dr. Ferguson’s faculty page: http://mgt.gatech.edu/directory/index_faculty.html)

Overall ILE encourages and supports global citizenship and responsible leadership among students, faculty and members of Atlanta’s business community. Bringing together students, researchers, business leaders, social proprietors, and other members of the global community, ILE’s activities generate a unique and powerful synergy that facilitates change at the core-level.