http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/ Social change by social entrepreneurship en-us 2005-12-01T23:09:44-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/033360.html Whether it’s the emerging vogue of social entrepreneurship in the media, the outgrowth of organizations that support and direct social innovators, or merely the sheer expansion of Ashoka from 8 to 46 countries over the course of little more than... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-12-01T23:09:44-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/033345.html James Grant, the head of United Nations’ children’s organization UNICEF from 1980 to 1995, may not be a social entrepreneur in the typical sense. But his energy and optimism, his ability to draw together stakeholders and work with limited resources,... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-12-01T19:41:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/033217.html “One of the most intriguing papers I came across in my research,â€? David Bornstein writes in How to Change the World, “contrasted the behavior of ‘highly successful’ and ‘average’ entrepreneurs and found that the most successful entrepreneurs were not necessarily... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-11-30T19:47:23-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/033186.html David Bornstein’s case study of Javed Abidi, a spirited defender and activist for advancing the rights and well-being of disabled people in India, leaves off at the end of 2002. Curious to see what he has done for the past... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-11-30T14:40:41-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/032628.html In their textbook Strategic Entrepreneurial Growth, Donald Kuratko and Harold Welsch argue that corporate entrepreneurship – in whatever form it takes – has become a bedrock in modern management. Whether to inspire new products and processes to avoid market stagnation... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-11-22T02:01:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/032627.html When Veronica Khosa launched Tateni, a South African organization that serves jointly as a training school for nurses and caretakers and as a home care service for terminally ill South Africans, she faced an unusual problem from the population she... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-11-22T01:05:14-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/032554.html Jacob Schramm’s work with inner-city high school students is a validation of the latent potential of underprivileged youth. His involvement with young people is precisely the kind of work I would love to participate in. Further, his experiences offer helpful... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-11-20T18:17:11-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/032038.html I am working with a teacher at Edison High School to contact staff involved with helping students prepare for college. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of financial advice for students planning to go to college --... Other 2005-11-11T15:04:06-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/032037.html In the late 1980s, after interviewing hundreds of social entrepreneurs and spending years pulling Ashoka through its start-up stages, Bill Drayton began to appreciate a foundation beneath the work of all Ashoka’s recruits and successful social entrepreneurs. Though each social... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-11-11T14:49:46-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/032032.html Social entrepreneurs are innately torn people. They use traditional business practices to fuel change that was once home only to philanthropic work. They are pulled between an instinct to help and the desire to make others independent. As Vera Cordeiro... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-11-11T14:18:20-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/031286.html “The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Every entrepreneur needs to pursue his own course as he forms, shapes, and manages the implementation of his ideas. Every entrepreneur –... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-11-01T20:35:00-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/031279.html One of the most notable underlying themes of David Bornstein’s book, How to Change the World, is the social entrepreneur’s oft-strained relationship with national governments. Fabio Rosa struggled with the Brazilian government over rural electrification policies for decades. Florence Nightingale... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-11-01T18:51:05-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/031004.html Wikipedia has a new entry on "social entrepreneurship." I hope my writing is boring enough for an encyclopedia. You can go here to see the article. But because Wikipedia is open sourced and is always changing, I've copied the original... Other 2005-10-29T21:05:51-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/031002.html “When you’re working through a change, you’ve got to lay out all the steps in the process across the top and all the key actors down the sides. And when you’re designing it, you have to think about each step... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-10-29T20:01:33-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bern0314/errands4humanity/030982.html The early career of Jeroo Billimoria, the founder and long-time operator of the Indian child services hotline, Childline, highlights a fundamental difference between social and traditional entrepreneurship. Certainly there are obvious disparities: Each has distinct goals, measures of success, and... Review for "How to Change the World" 2005-10-29T00:33:14-06:00