Source: www.beyondgreypinstripes.org
Topic: Social Entrepreneurship
Sort Desciption: A Closer Look at Business Education SEPTEMBER 2006 : SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP / SOCIAL ENTERPRISE INTRODUCTION: Entrepreneurs are innovative, highly-motivated, and critical thinkers.
Content Inside:
A Closer Look
at Business Education
SEPTEMBER 2006
: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP /
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
INTRODUCTION:
Entrepreneurs are innovative, highly-motivated, and critical thinkers. When these attributes are combined
with the drive to solve social problems, a Social Entrepreneur is born. Although academics and lay
observers generally agree what a social entrepreneur is, there is still ambiguity surrounding the definition
of a "social enterprise." This Closer Look defines a social enterprise as any organization that ranks social
impact on par with, or above, profit concerns.
Social entrepreneurs and social enterprises share a commitment to furthering a social mission and
improving society. Some of the basic definitional issues that remain include the choice of for-profit /
nonprofit structure, the necessity of earned-income strategies among nonprofits, and the degree to which
social entrepreneurs/enterprises can manage the toughest social and environmental issues.
In light of the blending of entrepreneurial business skills with the desire to improve society, this edition of
A Closer Look explores how individual schools and their MBA curricula are approaching this goal.
A FACULTY POINT OF VIEW:
Greg Dees is often considered the father of Social Entrepreneurship as an academic subject. He is the
founding faculty director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and an adjunct
professor at Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business. He has taught at the Yale School of
Management, Harvard Business School, and Stanfords Graduate School of Business. He spoke to the
Aspen Institute on the state of social entrepreneurship in business education.
On teachers being the greatest bottleneck: "Who will teach these courses? There is a lot of confusion
surrounding this; there is no clear natural path to develop faculty to teach social entrepreneurship."
On the ob ...
