The Skoll Foundation has recently completed a short film about the field of social entrepreneurship. Its a great overview of the progress made over the last three decades. It starts with Mohammad Yunus and includes interviews with a number of social entrepreneurs and others in the field, includin...
skollfoundationLaura Callanan, Consultant in the Social Sector Office at McKinsey & Company, challenges the audience to question their definition of social innovation and social entrepreneurship through her story of a "surprise" social entrepreneur.
fuquaschofbusinessAn interview with John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility. Social entrepreneurs are generating impressive results -- and capturing the imaginations of businesspeople and public policy makers.
harvardbusinessDr. Durieux looks at the immense impact of social entrepreneurs on addressing social issues examining their importance and what makes them tick. Mark Durieux's is a professor in Calgary where he teaches and speaks about the sociology of compassion and social entrepreneurship. Durieux explores our...
tedxtalks(Original Publish Date: 7/1/2010) The niece of former President George W. Bush on launching 'FEED Projects'.
forbesPart of 2010 Conference on Entrepreneurship Recognizing a social problem or opportunity, a social entrepreneur applies entrepreneurship principles to organize, create and manage a venture to drive social change. Rather than tackling these issues through the domains of nonprofits or government age...
stanfordbusinessWilliam Easterly discusses the positives and negatives of social entrepreneurship. This Carnegie Council event took place on Thursday, September 15, 2011. For complete video, audio, and transcript, go to: www.carnegiecouncil.org
Building upon Tulane's strengths in civic engagement and service learning, we are proud to introduce the first class of Social Entrepreneurship Professors. Laura Murphy was named the Carnegie Corporation of New York Professor of Social Entrepreneurship last spring. Murphy is a clinical associate ...
tulaneToday in Europe, social businesses employ more than 11 million people, 6% of all workers. What are their aims, their needs and what obstacles do they face in Europe? Nobel Peace Prize winner M. Yunus, microcredit specialist Maria Nowak, social investment pioneer Sir R. Cohen and social entreprene...
dgmarktSpotlight on Young Social Entrepreneurs -- e-Card launched at Young Social Entrepreneurs' Forum @ GK3, 13 Dec 2007 Who are they? What they do? What they need? How can you support them?
patsuanThe ides is about sort of getting started at the very least with a handful of products/services in the business of producing everything as co-op nonprofit business entities in a socially conscious way, the foundation of which is an interest free credit module built on top of zero balance barter c...
planetofelitesCEO Brent Freeman teaches high-school students how to create cause-oriented brands. www.forbes.com
forbeswww.sif.org.sg - Mr Mechai Viravaidya, Chairman, Mechai Viravaidya Foundation and Population and Development International, discusses about 'Nurturing Generations of Social Entrepreneurs' with Mr Willie Cheng, director of Lien Centre for Social Innovation; Mr Aaron Maniam, chairman of the Advisor...
www.QuarterWaters.com Stacy McCoy is the co-founder and CEO of Give To Get Jobs, a job board and information hub for jobs that use a sustainable business model to address a social and environmental mission. In other words, Give To Get Jobs is all about helping people find for-profit jobs that giv...
quarterwaterstvThe Asian Awards 2011 took place on October 18th 2011. The Asian Awards is a joint venture between Paul Sagoo (CEO of Lemon Group www.lemongroup.com) and United Business Media (www.ubm.com). The Asian Awards honours the greatest achievers across multiple categories. For more information visit www...
theasianawardsPuifung Leung is on a mission to make trade more equitable. She is a social entrepreneur who pays farmers a fair price for their crops, which she uses to make drinks and snacks. "The most important thing is to take risk. Where there are risks, there are opportunities" Puifung told The Story Excha...
storyexchangeIn this Tulane University program, David Bornstein, author of How to Change the World, JB Schramm, founder and CEO of College Summit and Susan Davis, chair of the Grameen Foundation USA, discuss the role of the social entrepreneur in addressing social issues. These innovative people have found so...
researchchannelwww.weforum.org 19.12.2011 This year's winners of the award "Swiss Social Entrepreneur of the Year" are Christoph Sutter and Renat Heuberger. Their company South Pole Carbon Asset Management combines local commitment to sustainable development in emerging and developing countries with solutions f...
worldeconomicforumBP Agrawal, two time Development Marketplace winner talks about his career in social entrepreneurship. This interview will filmed as BP was honored with the 2010 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
worldbankPanel of NJ Social Entrepreneurs Lisanne Finston: Elijah's Promise Joe Shure: The Intersect Fund Sean Dougherty: HopeWorks in Camden Brian Rubin: Blogger, Soul-cial Entrepreneur The New Jersey Social Entrepreneurship Summit May 24th, 2012 website: www.njsesummit.org twitter: www.twitter.com/#!/NJ...
Ben Berte, Ed.M. '11 reflects on how his time at HGSE helped him co-found the education/technology startup "Socrative."
harvardeducationAndy Lower, Executive Director of The Eleos Foundation and CEO of Eleos Investment Management LLC, introduces the second in a series of events entitled The Blueprint of Impact Investing. Andy reviews social enterprises and their middle ground between traditional nonprofits, for-profits and govern...
eleosvisionIn a series profiling social entrepreneurs from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kim Snodgrass, Ed.M. '10 discusses why she founded the organization REACH and how helping foster children is her life's calling.
harvardeducationBjörn Söderberg & Maya Söderberg of Travel Together pitch at SOCAP: Designing the Future.
socapmarketsIn this fourth (and last) interview with Global X, Bill Drayton addresses a key question: How can one be an effective social entrepreneur? "First, you have to give yourself permission to be one!" And that may be the biggest barrier. Many people will tell you that this is too hard and that you wil...
socialedgeHelp Feed Starving Children, Become a Social Entrepreneur, and build a successful business while helping put an end to World Hunger. Gary and Lisa Pierce can show you How, and it is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
myherbalchibalmGordon Bloom, the Dean's Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, discusses the design, creation and development of innovative social change organizations. Select students from Professor Blooms class present their entrepreneurial endeavo...
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