CSR Event

Inventing the Sustainable Economy

A Massachusetts-based educational non-partisan non-profit, the PBLN is the nation's only community for self-identified "progressive" CEOs and top officers.

The PBLN mission is to "promote the best practices of business leaders committed to socially and environmentally responsible economic growth and the public policies that advance it."

As the Progressive Business Leaders Network prepares for its return to Washington, DC to host the Summit on Sustainable Business in the US Senate on April 23, we are privileged to have Senator John Kerry, Chairman Barney Frank, and House Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Ed Markey be joining over 100 leading progressive business executives as we work to develop strategies for engaging business leaders to promote socially and environmentally responsible and sustainable economic growth.

The Summit will feature:

- A video-link session with the globally-broadcasted Business 4 Environment Global Summit in Paris (being headlined by French President Sarkozy)that will discuss private/public sector partnership for a more sustainable and environmentally responsible global economy.

- Highly-engaging Working Group presentations that focus on Housing & Economic Development, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Education, and Energy & Environment.

- Speaker Remarks from:

Senator John Kerry
Chairman Barney Frank
Chairman Ed Markey
John McDonough, Sr. Advisor on Healthcare Reform for Sen. Ed Kennedy
Jeff Anderson, National co-Chair, Cleantech for Obama
Josh Boger, President & CEO, Vertex Pharm.
Gloria Larson, President, Bentley University
Jack Manning, President & CEO, Boston Capital Corporation
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu*
Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke*
Senator Barbara Boxer*
Senator Jeff Bingaman*
Carol M. Browner*