The Business Case for Protecting the 40B Affordable Housing Law Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:00 – 9:45am Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP 111 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02199 FEATURING: Tripp Jones Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, The MENTOR Network; & Chair, The Campaign to Protect the Affordable Housing Law Alan Clayton-Matthews Professor and Director of Quantitative Methods, Northeastern School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Sara Schnorr, Partner, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP (Moderator) Tripp Jones is the executive vice president and chief administrative officer of The MENTOR Network, a leading national provider of residential and support services for people with developmental disabilities and brain injuries. Professor Alan Clayton-Matthews is also co-editor of Massachusetts Benchmarks, a joint publication of the University of Massachusetts and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston that presents information and analysis about the performance of the Massachusetts economy. He also recently worked with the UMASS Donahue Institute to author a report on the spending, economic linkages, and tax revenues that have resulted from the construction and occupancy of Chapter 40B-permitted housing over the last 10 years. Sara Schnorr, a partner with Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, focuses her practice on complex real estate acquisition, development, land use, and financing matters, particularly for clients in the affordable housing, biomedical, and telecommunications industries. Cost: PBLN Members: Free Non-members: $25.00 Space is limited - RSVP today Co-Sponsored by: The Campaign to Protect the Affordable Housing Law and The Boston Society of Architects

Thank you for making PBLN's October 8th CEO Summit at Bentley University a great success! Over 200 business leaders met at Bentley University on Friday, October 8th to find their business voice in the challenge of inventing a more sustainable, competitive economy. Keynote addresses from Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg set the tone for inspiring discussions that touched on specific challenges to long term competitiveness and sustainable growth, and building skills, relationships and knowledge for business leaders to take action on the most urgent issues and with the best of best practices from their peers. Read the Boston Globe article about the Summit here. The Summit also included speakers such as Harmonix Music Systems COO Michael Dornbrook, Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Jeffrey Mullan, Organogenesis CEO Geoff Mackay, Verizon New England President Donna Cupelo, EnerNOC CEO Tim Healy, BiddingForGood CEO Jon Carson, Beacon Communities Development LLC President Pamela Goodman, Massachusetts Secretary of Housing & Economic Development Greg Bialecki, Massachusetts State Representative Jay Kaufman (Chair, Joint Committee on Revenue), Akamai CEO Paul Sagan, Dancing Deer Baking Company Founder/Chief Deer Trish Karter, Panera Bread Founder and Chairman Ron Shaich, WBUR Journalist Martha Bebinger, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center President & CEO Paul Levy, Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Janet Kraus, Boston Capital Corporation CEO Jack Manning, Boston Globe writer Scott Kirsner, Massachusetts Secretary of Health & Human Services JudyAnn Bigby, Massachusetts State Representative Charley Murphy (Chair, House Ways & Means Commitee) Cape Wind CEO Jim Gordon, Eos Foundation President Andrea Silbert, Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy Director and Dean of the Northeastern School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs Barry Bluestone & many more. See the full Agenda here Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School & PBLN Board Member Rosabeth Moss Kanter delivers the opening remarks Stonyfield Farm CEO Gary Hirshberg gives the Keynote Address View the entire Summit Photo Gallery   Not yet a PBLN Member? Join today by clicking here! Contact PBLN Director of Operations Aaron Chalek with any questions at aaron@pbln.org / 978-337-8210 

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