Social Entrepreneurship

Perspectives from the Field

By Lisa Suennen, William Rosenzweig, & Chaim Indig

Two venture capitalists and an entrepreneur discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators confront as they seek to improve health care.

Foundations as Investors

By John Goldstein & Margaret Laws 1

Social investors are experimenting with a profusion of creative funding mechanisms to help innovators sustain health-improving approaches and to achieve greater impact.

Podcast

Nonprofits

Solving Infant Mortality with Social Entrepreneurship

Featuring Jane Chen

Social entrepreneur Jane Chen discusses the challenges and rewards of the developing an innovative product, and shares insights on the attitudes that allow entrepreneurs to find success.

Nonprofit Management

Innovative Ideas for Sale—No Strings Attached

By Nikki Wilson 4

As controversial as he is kind-hearted, serial entrepreneur Charles Maisel's viewpoint shakes up conventional charity thinking.

Economic Development

Social Entrepreneurship Takes Off in Brazil

By Randall Kempner 2

Brazilian entrepreneurs are leveraging their deep intellectual, social, and natural resources to drive greater prosperity and create wealth.

Social Entrepreneurship

Fulfilling the Promise: Social Investment

By Abigail Noble 1

Insight into the process of forming productive relationships with social investors, and whether receiving an investment is the right growth approach for each social enterprise.

Social Entrepreneurship

The Rise of Kant, MBA

By Scott Hartley

The Age of Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise is upon us.

Education

Academic-Nonprofit Partnerships Can Pick Up Where Student Innovators Leave Off

By Diana Jue

Academic-nonprofit, cross-sector partnerships have immense potential to influence long-term development, dissemination, and diffusion of technologies.