School alumnus to discuss potable water, profitability
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Exploring how a safe drinking water program for children is good business will be the subject of an Oct. 26 talk at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Center for Sustainable Enterprise and the UNC Net Impact chapter organized the event.
Dr. Greg Allgood visits with rural schoolchildren in Haiti in 2006.
Greg Allgood, PhD, director of Procter & Gamble Co.’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program, and Lisa Jones Christensen, assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Kenan-Flagler, will discuss “To Be For-Profit or Not to Be For-Profit: A False Choice: How the Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program Builds Shareholder Value for P & G” at 6:30 p.m. Allgood received his Master of Science degree in environmental engineering from UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 1983.
The event will be held in Room 2575 of the McColl Building and also available as a webcast. A reception at 5:30 p.m. will precede the talk. Those who plan to attend should respond to cse@unc.edu. Parking for the free, public event will be available in the business school parking deck, off Bowles Drive.
Allgood, a senior fellow in sustainability, leads P & G’s efforts to provide safe drinking water in the developing world using PUR Purifier of Water, a powdered water clarification and disinfectant that makes dirty water potable in 30 minutes. He holds a doctorate in toxicology from North Carolina State University.
Jones Christensen is a faculty adviser to UNC’s Center for Sustainable Enterprise, where she oversees its work on sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship in developing countries.
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, 919-966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
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