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- The Social Entrepreneur MBA: Trained to Adapt
- MBAs are veering off the corporate path to launch businesses with profit goals and social missions — and they just might have what it takes to survive the slow economy. ...
- Articles 2009-02-09
- What Now for MBAs?
- Even in a down economy, MBAs can still navigate a great career path — if they know where to look.In the wake of the economic crisis, applications to business schools are on the rise, as college grads and business professionals seek shelter from an ugly job market. Some are re-tooling...
- Articles 2009-02-09
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- Social Entrepreneurship: Leadership That Facilitates Societal Transformation
- This paper explains a comparative analysis of seven cases of social entrepreneurship that have been widely recognized as successful. It suggests factors associated with successful social entrepreneurship, particularly with social entrepreneurship that leads to significant changes in the social, political and economic contexts for poor and marginalized groups. It generates...
- White papers 2003-05-30
- What Is Social Entrepreneurship Really About?
- Social entrepreneurship is a growth area, both in practice and in academic circles. Its value is generally assumed to be the contribution that social entrepreneurs can make to solving pressing and intractable social problems. It is argued here that this is an overly deterministic and simplistic way of understanding the...
- White papers 2006-11-08
- First International Conference on Social Entrepreneurship & Complexity, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, April 24-26, 2008
- The unique and pressing challenges facing both the economic and social situations of the 21st century are calling for fundamentally new initiatives. The burgeoning arena of social entrepreneurship is one such example of how public and private organizations are forging alliances aiming at addressing these challenges. As...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Social Entrepreneurship: Its Past and Future | HBR IdeaCast
- Social entrepreneurship has gained traction in the last decade, as motivated individuals have applied business savvy to education, human rights, health and myriad other societal problems. Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, an organization that helps foster social entrepreneurship, discusses the movement and where it is headed in the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Social Entrepreneurship: Pattern-Changing Entrepreneurs And The Scaling Of Social Impact
- This paper presents findings from an investigation of pattern-changing social entrepreneurs. We examined the efforts of fifteen entrepreneurs and sought to understand the factors that enable successful ones to scale their social impact. All the entrepreneurs were operating in capital constrained environments and scaling required overcoming funding constraints. The findings...
- White papers 2006-01-14
- Social Entrepreneurship: The Contribution of Individual Entrepreneurs to Sustainable Development
- Social entrepreneurship is a phenomenon that has resisted attempts to establish a clear definition. A focus on organizational structures and/or what constitutes a worthy social cause has created a diverse set of terminology. Observing the positive social impact of entrepreneurs catering to basic needs, this paper recognizes their unique role...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Social Capital by Design: Structures, Strategies, and Institutional Context
- The article examines social entrepreneurship from a structural perspective, distinguishing between two structures of social capital and their associated entrepreneurial strategies: structural holes and the 'disunion' strategy versus social cohesiveness and the 'union' strategy. These two strategies represent alternative ways social entrepreneurs access and mobilize the resources inherent in the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Northeastern University College of Business Administration Ranked in U.S. Top 25 Undergraduate Programs for Entrepreneurship
- Long-Standing History of Cross-Disciplinary Teaching of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Coupled with New Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives, Continue to Build College's Reputation
- Research articles 2007-11-06
- MINISTER AMBIKA SONI PRESENTS SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR 2007 AWARD FOR INDIA TO HARISH HANDE
- Harish Hande, Managing Director, SELCO Solar Light, India, has been named the Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 for India. Minister of Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni presented the award to Hande during the World Economic Forum's India Economic Summit. The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the Nand &...
- Research articles 2007-12-04
- Social entrepreneurship meets cause marketing.(alliance between American Bankers Association and child welfare organization America's Promise)
- Banking institutions, like other business establishments in the US, are increasingly engaging their employees with social causes in their communities. The relative health of the economy has lifted young professionals' preoccupation from mundane financial Banking institutions, like other business establishments in the US, are increasingly engaging their employees with social...
- Research articles 1999-07-01
- NYU Stern Launches First Student-Run Social Venture Fund in Nation; Latest Innovation Supports School's Ongoing Commitment to Social Entrepreneurship
- NEW YORK -- The Student Social Venture Fund at New York University Stern School of Business, the first student-managed fund to launch at a U.S. business school, announced its inaugural Request for Proposals RFP this March. The Fund will distribute up to $100,000 in grants during this initial spring cycle,...
- Research articles 2005-03-22
- The sweet taste of success: the Schwab Foundation has announced the results of its prestigious Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs Award for 2005. Oscar Ekwensi profiles the work of Farouk Jiwa of Honey Care, one of the African winners
- Farouk Jiwa, the founder of Honey Care from Kenya, has been selected as one of the world's 'Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs' by the Switzerland-based Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. This is the fourth consecutive year that the Foundation has made its awards. It honours those whose work has significantly improved people's...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Monitor Group Releases Seminal Report on Emerging Models for Social Enterprises and Market-Based Solutions to Poverty in 19 Countries
- Launched at Skoll World Forum, Report Identifies for the First Time which Social Enterprise Models have been Effective, Sustainable and Scalable ...
- Research articles 2009-03-26
- Distributed Solar Energy in Brazil: Fabio Rosa's Approach to Social Entrepreneurship
- This case study describes about solar energy systems in Brazil to provide electricity. Approximately 25 million people in Brazil do not have access to electricity. Fabio Rosa, a local social entrepreneur, is aiming to fill this need through innovative distributed solar energy systems. Prior to the 1990s, the Brazilian government...
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- Public Radio International® Partners with Skoll Foundation to Expand Coverage of Social Entrepreneurship across Platforms
- MINNEAPOLIS & PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Public Radio International PRI and the Skoll Foundation announce a two-year partnership designed to support on-air and online coverage of social entrepreneurs in PRI programs. A $600,000 grant from the Skoll Foundation will enable specific PRI productions to expand their coverage of remarkable individuals...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- Sand Hill Group Announces First Annual Awards for Software Industry Good Samaritans, Social Entrepreneurs and Luminary; Winners Recognized At Software 2006 Gala Benefit; Awards Celebrate Philanthropy in the Software Industry Ecosystem
- SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sand Hill Group last night announced the winners of the first annual SHG Foundation awards for software industry Good Samaritans, Social Entrepreneurship and Luminary. At a gala benefit event in conjunction with Software 2006 this week, awards were given to eight organizations and people across the...
- Research articles 2006-04-05
- Rensselaer's Lally School to host Entrepreneurship Symposium Oct. 2 and 3; Role of social networks in entrepreneurship and innovation to be examined.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-30 September 2003-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Rensselaer's Lally School to host Entrepreneurship Symposium Oct. 2 and 3; Role of social networks in entrepreneurship and innovation to be examinedC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09292003 Troy, N.Y. -- The effects of social networks on...
- Research articles 2003-09-30
- Entrepreneurship And Success In e-Business
- The dotcom crash presented new challenges to successful business and decision-making in e-entrepreneurship, the implications of which can be better understood by looking at the changing meanings of expert knowledge and of business community. This is one of the main findings of a case study on e-entrepreneurship in the Greater...
- White papers 2003-09-30
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