All Entrepreneurship is Social
Let's not overlook what traditional entrepreneurs contribute to society
 Over the past decade or so, the term social entrepreneur has become a fashionable way of describing individuals and organizations that, in their attempts at large-scale change, blur the traditional boundaries between the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Given the ceaseless appearance of innovations and new institutional forms, we should welcome a new term that allows us to think systematically about a still-emergent field. One danger, however, is that the use of the modifier social will diminish the contributions of regular entrepreneurs—that is, people who create new companies and then grow them to scale. In the course of doing business as usual, these regular entrepreneurs create thousands of jobs, improve the quality of goods and services available to consumers, and ultimately raise standards of living. Indeed, the intertwined histories of business and health in the United States suggests that all entrepreneurship is social entrepreneurship. >>Continue reading this article Note: The link from the "Settling Up" article in the last e-newsletter was incorrect. The correct link should have been http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/settling_up/.
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 What if there was a way to trigger a $150 billion influx of new money into the social sector? Recently, in my public speaking, I've been talking about Kiva.org and why Kiva is like a "gateway drug to social investing." The fact is, most people are not sitting around wishing that they could make high-impact social investments. When Kiva was formed, it was not designed in reaction to a large group of everyday people who were looking for a simple way to make small loans to impoverished people in the developed world. Instead, Kiva built a model that was incredibly compelling and hooked everyday donors into the world of microfinance, which, until Kiva was a social investing practice, was reserved for institutional grantmakers. How did Kiva do it? >>Continue reading this post
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John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods: Conscious Business and Entrepreneurship  Social entrepreneurship may well be giving business a good name. In this University podcast, John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, advocates for "conscious business" that is in service not just to the profit margin but also to helping others, striving for excellence, fulfilling a higher purpose, and changing and improving the world. Speaking as part of the View from the Top Lecture Series to an audience of Stanford MBA students, Mackey discusses his own company's growing pains and his embrace of the social entrepreneurship paradigm. >>Listen to this podcast
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