Entrepreneur Shainoor Khoja Promotes Doing Good When Things are Really Bad
A Conversation at Babson College October 27
The Center for Women’s Leadership at Babson presents Extreme Entrepreneurship: Doing Really Good Stuff in a Really Bad Situation, a conversation with CWL executive-in- residence Shainoor Khoja, social entrepreneur and director of corporate relations for Roshan, the leading GSM cellular service provider in Afghanistan, on October 27.
Khoja will discuss her company’s commitment to creating a sustainable entrepreneurial venture that, from the beginning, hard-wired social venturing and community initiatives into its business model. Her company’s story is the embodiment of how to think and act like an entrepreneur, no matter where you are. It’s a business saga of strategy, success, failure, and reinvention, and a profoundly human tale of passion and courage.
The event will be on Tuesday, October 27, 6-8 p.m. in the Televideo Room, ground floor, of the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson. It is free and open to the public.
For more information and to register, go to http://www3.babson.edu/cwl/events/conversation_khoja.cfm.
Khoja has successfully operated projects and businesses on four continents, working with diverse cultures, in challenging environments, and in multiple languages. For the last four years, she has focused on the mobile technology sector, setting up a new division within the mobile technology industry in corporate social responsibility from startup to project delivery and operation. Khoja manages a budget of more than $2 million and integrates social development mobile technology projects such as mobile money, village phone models, and bottom-of-the-pyramid business strategies.
She continues to develop the programs by researching and creating innovative uses of technology for business expansion and societal benefit in areas such as Telemedicine, transfer of educational content through mobile phones, training programs to build in country human capacity. She has expanded the program to develop the promotion of strategic tri-sector capacity. Khoja is also working with academic institutions such as Harvard and Berkley Haas Business School, as well as Babson students, assisting their understanding of business in emerging markets. Most recently she is also advising start-up companies in insurance, financial services and healthcare within Central Asia and the GCC.
The mission of Babson’s Center for Women's Leadership is to create, support and disseminate best practice for women's entrepreneurial leadership through educational excellence, innovative professional development and outreach and research that translates data into knowledge and knowledge into action.
