“The Wal-Mart Effect” Author Visits for One Big Book Club Lecture
“The Wal-Mart Effect” author Charles Fishman visited USciences for a lecture, Q&A session, book signing, and reception with faculty, staff, and students on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. “The Wal-Mart Effect,” which made The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller lists, was the summer selection for USciences’ One Big Book Club.
An award-wining investigative and magazine journalist, Fishman’s lecture argued that despite its negative reputation, Wal-Mart is becoming the most important and powerful force for environmental change in the
Fishman has spent the last 20 years trying to get inside, understand, and explain important organizations, from NASA to Wal-Mart. Fishman was the first reporter ever permitted inside a Tupperware factory, and was the first reporter in 30 years allowed inside the nation’s only bomb factory. Since 1996, Fishman has been a senior writer at Fast Company magazine. In 2005, he won a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business journalism. Fishman grew up and graduated from high school in Miami, Florida and received a BA from Harvard University. He is married to a journalist and resides in the Greater Philadelphia region.
Established in 2004, the One Big Book Club aims to create a sense of community and a common experience among first-year students, faculty, and staff through group book discussion. The One Big Book Club also sponsors events throughout the year including neighborhood clean-ups, academic lectures, green tree plantings, Earth Day celebrations, and more.
Similar Posts:
- One Book, One Campus Choses Into the Wild
- Reading @ Rio Book Club Plans January Meeting
- Raleigh high schools get top rankings nationwide
- Trainor Named Phila. Business Journal’s Nonprofit CFO of the Year
- New York City mayor to speak at UNC spring commencement
