Sunday, February 22, 2009
trip to maharashtra
hi dear all
Definition:
Washington University, Social Entrepreneurship (Elective Course) “This course is about using entrepreneurial skills to craft innovative solutions to lead and fund efforts to resolve social needs. Entrepreneurs are particularly good at recognizing opportunities, exploring innovative approaches, mobilizing resources, managing risks, and building viable enterprises.”
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 University’s Fuqua School of Business. He has taught at the Yale School of Management, Harvard Business School, and Stanford’s 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 obstacles that social entrepreneurship faces in education: “Business schools still view social entrepreneurship as a practice, not a discipline; it is the same difficulty that entrepreneurship was faced with when it began. There is not enough academic research out there right now; there needs to be more in order to advance the credibility of social entrepreneurship as an academic field.”
On what brings students into the classroom: “It’s not just the use of earned income…it’s that the
organizations we focus on are engaged in innovative, creative ways to tackle social problems; what attracts students is the innovation and…the willingness to look across sector boundaries for creative solutions. What they’re interested in is using their business skills to solve social problems.”