All Stories of Value
Following are stories of hope—of people who make a difference, who seek a solution, who are not intimidated by the size of the challenge they face. They show us compassion, ingenuity, passion and enterprising endeavors. Many of these stories also illustrate the important role of business and market mechanisms for achieving results which benefit the wider human community.
Elizabeth Scharpf, '99
Founder, President and CEO of Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE)
Alum Planting Entrepreneurial Roots
“Scharpf's Sustainable Health Enterprises seeks to not only improve the health and lifestyles of women in Rwandan villages, but also to provide the means to lift them from poverty.” MORE
Eric Litton, MBA '09
President of the Net Impact chapter at Notre Dame
War Zone Entrepreneurs
“If I would have said seven years ago . . . that MBA students in the US would be helping businessmen in Afghanistan and Iraq start new businesses, no one would have believed it.” MORE
Sheila Powenski, MBA '09
co-founder, MedXCycle, LLC.
For Startup, No Time to Waste
MBA student Sheila Powenski is the force behind MedXCycle LLC, a startup company that collects donated surplus medical supplies and sells them at a fraction of their original prices to healthcare providers in underprivileged countries. MORE
Faust Capobianco IV ’94
President, Majestic Athletic Wear Limited
Majestic Sweeps the Series
Whenever a big-name baseball player signs with a major league team, the image that makes the front page of the sports section and the top of the evening news is always the same. MORE
Pablo Nava '08
Founder, PFNC Global Communities
Container + Dreams = Home
In 2007, Pablo Nava (’08) and his cousin Brian McCarthy entered and won the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies’ Social Venture Business Plan Competition with their blueprint for PFNC Global Communities. MORE
Professor Ken Milani
Notre Dame Tax Assistance Program
A Tax Parable
Thirty-five years ago, Ken Milani didn’t know that $8 would change his life. But it did. Less than a week after arriving on campus in 1972 to begin a new teaching job at Notre Dame, MORE