The Blue Sweater

Selection Requirement Checklist

• Readability for 17 to 18 year old student (easy-intermediate-difficult)
  • The stories Novogratz outlines are simply told. However, the economic concepts may toughen the terrain for new college students.

 

• Less than 300 pages
  • 288 pages

 

• Speaker Price
  • Novogratz speaking fee is $15,000 to $20,000 plus travel expenses (note: she has spoken at 5 Ted Talk Conferences)

 

• Easily adaptable across LSEM, disciplines, majors, etc.
  • Novogratz provides a great message for young citizen leaders who aspire to have impact on their community (or the world). That said, The Blue Sweater is a business book, and it explores market behaviors and influences. Concepts that may not be of easy consumption for all new students.

 

• The Blue Sweater has a reader’s guide of group discussion topics that would be a valuable teaching tool for all LSEM instructors.

 

• Current theme, current event
  • Alleviating poverty, humble leadership practices, and the values an interdependent society. All topical, and meaningful subjects for a younger generation.

 

• Price less than $15
  • Paperback, $14.39 (Amazon.com)

 

• Promotes critical and/or creative thinking
  • The Blue Sweater presents an alternative way to approach philanthropy. Novogratz details the trial and error she experienced that led her to think different in how to effectively address poverty solutions, an investment style she termed, “patient capital.”

 

• How to incorporate into LSEM class
  • An LSEM class could work collectively to design a community outreach program based on the tenets of patient capital.

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