Recent Posts Tagged With 'social entrepreneurship'

• Brave Thinkers in the Atlantic: Paul Polak Social Entrepreneur to the BOP

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 14:37 in social entrepreneurship, bottom of the pyramid, paul polak, international development enterprises, base of the pyramid, social entrepreneurship and business

  Paul Polak founder for International Development Enterprises (IDE) was featured in this month’s Atlantic feature entitled “Brave Thinkers“: Name: Paul Polak Job: Founder of International Development Enterprises and D-Rev Why he’s ...

• Social Entrepreneurship Videos

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 13:01 in social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship and business

  Social Entrepreneurship and Change Videos Homeboy Industries at Explore.org Paul Polack of International Development Enterprises Skoll Foundation on YouTube Social Edge on YouTube Ashoka DVD on YouTube PBS and Frontline videos about social entreprene...

• Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 12:30 in social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, john wood, room to read, leaving microsoft to change the world, social entrepreneurship and business

  “Leaving Microsoft to Change the World” is an inspiring story told by John Wood about going from doing marketing for Microsoft to forming and growing Room to Read. Room to Read plans to give books to 10 million to children throughout the...

• Enterpreneurial Education and Training Models to Solve Poverty

  Posted on Thursday June 18th, 2009 at 05:15 in social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and business, social franchising

  Earning and Learning at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) The issue of training entrepreneurs is interesting to me as a teacher and because I believe spreading social entrepreneurship training and mentorship is critical for helping those in developing na...

• Activism 2.0: Carrot Mob = Social Entrepreneurship meets Social Media

  Posted on Friday May 29th, 2009 at 09:07 in CSR, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, social business, ecopreneurs, carrot mob, social entrepreneurship and business, innovative social change, social entreprise

  New Eco-preneurism: Using Social Media to Connect Green and Social Responsible Activists What is Carrot Mob? Carrot Mob is an organization which uses reverse green boycotts to encourage greening of businesses. This is an effort to encourage corpora...

• Top MBA Study Abroad and International B-School Programs

  Posted on Tuesday May 26th, 2009 at 05:01 in social entrepreneurship, top mba programs, social entrepreneurship and business, top international mba programs, top study abroad mba programs

  Best Business School Study Abroad and International MBA Programs Here are 8 of the top ranked MBA programs with study abroad programs (I generally relied on Google’s order and I’ve added some international MBA program rankings to the over...

• Markets with a Social Mission: Social Stock Markets

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 03:07 in social entrepreneurship, ode magazine, social stock market, markets with a mission

  Oda magazine has a great feature issue on ethics in business called “Markets with a Mission“. I haven’t made my way through all the articles, but it looks quite good: Not only in Africa, but in North and South America and Europe, â...

• Entrepreneurship education and training

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 16:31 in social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education and training

  Well, I’ve blogged about this issue in several different occassions…but I wanted to make sure I targeted these specific keywords. Initially, I would suggest the resources at Score and the Small Business Administration are quite useful. Y...

• D.Light: Solar Energy Powered Light Design for the Base of the Pyramid

  Posted on Friday May 1st, 2009 at 05:32 in social entrepreneurship, bottom of the pyramid, bop, base of the pyramid, design for the other 90 percent, social entrepreneurship and business, social edge blog

  D.light is a solar power light solution for people at the bottom of the pyramid. This is a crazy drop test of the d.light solar powered light. BOP…yeah you know me!!!! or DRRRROOOOOPPPPP! or Groove is in the Heart! Thanks to Social Edge and...