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Topic: Entrepreneurship
Sort Desciption: Greg Dees is often considered the father of Social Entrepreneurship as an ... Aspen Institute on the state of social entrepreneurship in business education. ...
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 educ ...
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