If you had to participate in the Ethics Project yourself, doing something good with $1000, what might you end up doing?
The more challenging version: Assume you’ll spend at least as much time as the average MBA student, and that you’ll be aiming to do more good than any of the students in the current round of the project.
1. Spend the money replacing certain water heater elements at Georgetown. Some students did this for a few dorms, but they could do it for others. $200 can save the university $10s of thousands per year. Indeed, it’s bizarre the university didn’t copy the students’ project.
2. Help people start a small business in a poor country. $1000 can get one off the ground.
3. Do a fundraiser. $1000 can be turned into $20,000 which can be given to an effective charity. Federal rules prohibit direct donations but the $1000 can be turned into more money that can be donated.
If you had to participate in the Ethics Project yourself, doing something good with $1000, what might you end up doing?
The more challenging version: Assume you’ll spend at least as much time as the average MBA student, and that you’ll be aiming to do more good than any of the students in the current round of the project.
A few ideas:
1. Spend the money replacing certain water heater elements at Georgetown. Some students did this for a few dorms, but they could do it for others. $200 can save the university $10s of thousands per year. Indeed, it’s bizarre the university didn’t copy the students’ project.
2. Help people start a small business in a poor country. $1000 can get one off the ground.
3. Do a fundraiser. $1000 can be turned into $20,000 which can be given to an effective charity. Federal rules prohibit direct donations but the $1000 can be turned into more money that can be donated.