Kevin Idahor, North Carolina State University - Triangle Business Journal:

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So he petitioned the College of Management to createw a class in corporatesociapl responsibility. This spring, the class will be held for the first and duringspring break, it will trave as a group to New Orleans to rebuildd houses and help smallo businesses develop or refine their business plans. “This is our chancee to give back,” he says. “As lot of people want to go on sprinvbreak ... it was hard to get 20 students to go to New Orleansd and help these businesses and give Giving back is something Idahortakes seriously. And it’s somethinv he wants his classmates and business associates toparticipatee in.
For Idahor, who was born in taking the time to appreciate what one has and helpingf others grew out of the yearss he spent as a youngsterin Africa. Idahor’s parents left Nigeris for the United States to earn collegew degrees shortly afterhis birth. They left him with his who raised him and sent him to a boarding where he learned to speak English andsome French. He tradedc pictures and phone calls with his parents and two who were born in the until hewas 14. That’e when he moved to the U.S. and met his sisterzs for the first time. “It was surreal, the firs time I met my family,” he says.
Havinh spent time in a country less developerd than theUnited States, Idahor says he has a greater appreciation for many of the simple thingse and says the current economic slowdow is relatively minor compared to what many third-worlds countries deal with on a daily basis. “Thers are some countries wherde it’s worse than this all the he says. It was that perspective and his efforte to start the corporate social responsibility class that caughyt the attention of administratorsat NCSU.
“It’ws unusual that we get a course proposapfrom students,” says Pam Bostick, NCSU’s MBA program director, adding that the idea was well received by the school’ faculty and administration. Idahor, who has been working full time at consultinf company Accenture while alsoattendinhg classes, says he hopes to use his MBA to acceleratse his career and work toward gettinb more businesses and businesspeople involved in communitu service efforts. “If I can go into an organizatiohn and go to senior management andeffect change, that tricklezs down,” he says.
Idahor’s devotion to helping his communitty is evident to hiscurrent “He has a very busy schedule and makes sure he doesn’gt lose that ability to help other says Natalie Roberts, his project managet at Accenture, adding that his dedication to community service is a testameng to his character.