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Welcome to the Social Edge update! As a liberal arts student, you were passionate about contributing to the planet’s well-being. Across campus, business-school students were eager to leverage their analytical skills to achieve financial success. If “resources plus expertise” represents the business outlook, while “passions plus contribution” puts the social component into play, where do social entrepreneurs fit? Charles (Hipbone) Cameron thinks that we may not be able to succeed with passions plus contribution alone. His take: it’s not just that liberal arts folks should invade the MBA programs, but that we need to merge the two mindsets to arrive at the strengths of both. And if we look at most successful social entrepreneurs’ life trajectory, we realize that social entrepreneurship is more a matter of passion and contribution in the early stage, while the resources plus expertise factor comes into play as they scale up. Resources and expertise, or passion with contribution: what do social entrepreneurs need to succeed? Please join Charles (Hipbone) Cameron as he helps us configure the best of both worlds. Then follow Jonathan Lewis on his discovery of a social entrepreneur solving poverty with financial incentives: “With hard-nosed expediency, he dangles a small bit of incentive money to catalyze new community behaviors.” Is it working? Yes, which shows that appropriate resources and expertise can complement passion for contribution. This is echoed by Dr. O, who recently interviewed an Olympic athlete turned social investor raising money for social ventures. And by Brian Kelly, a Kiva Fellow in Sri Lanka, who noticed that small factors in a microfinance institution are often critical to success. And by Untangled: “Refugees can still be high functioning members of society as long as they have broadband access to the Internet.” Also making a contribution is Dhaval Chadha, who discovers that joining a team to create TEDxSudeste can “eat up all your free time and some of your not free time” but is also extremely rewarding. Resources. Expertise. Passion. Contribution. Tell us what defines you.
Join this Week's Live Discussions  It doesn't take an MBA - or does it?
Liberal arts students are passionate about their contribution to the world while business-school students leverage their skills to create financial success. Where do social entrepreneurs fit? Charles (Hipbone) Cameron tries to configure the best of both worlds.
Conflict-to-Cooperation Conversations in the Middle East
Arnold Noyek has built cooperative health initiatives across the Arab and Israeli fault line, a new blueprint to peace through health as a common language of need. Tell us if this Middle East model has global potential. Government: Social Investment Catalyst or Market Disrupter?
What is the role government should take in accelerating the new social economy development? Join Rod Schwartz, CEO of ClearlySo, in the conversation. From Social Entrepreneurship to Social Interpreneurship
At the 2010 Skoll World Forum, Peter Deitz discovered Social Interpreneurship: two parts Internet, five parts Interaction, and ten parts Interdependence. He now wonders whether we have evolved beyond social entrepreneurship. Join him in the conversation. Structuring Collaboration
Mergers, partnerships and new business models: Charles (Hipbone) Cameron looks into how social entrepreneurs should structure their collaborative efforts to increase social return. The Power of Impact & Measurement
What are the challenges in trying to measure systems change? How do you implement programs that measure the power of collective investments? Join the Skoll Foundation's Lakshmi Karan in the conversation.
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"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." George Washington CarverWhat is Social Entrepreneurship?Statement of Faith
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