Mobilising Underutilised Assets To Realise Social And Environmental Value 1. Legitimating Assets
Friday, March 31, 2006
Session Description
After a day on finance, we return to the themes of our opening keynote address. One of the distinctive attributes of social entrepreneurs is their ability to identify and mobilise very different kinds of assets – human, social and cultural. These case studies examine the ways social entrepreneurs can couple new financial resources with other assets and put both in the service of their mission and pursuit of social and environmental value.
Time & Location
Time:
11:00 - 12:15, Friday, March 31, 2006
BST
Speakers
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Writer, Frugal Innovation
Yasser Bhatti is PhD student at the Said Business School, University of Oxford with research interests in innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategy. His PhD focuses on the emergence of frugal innovation and blogs on his website
www.frugal-innovation.com
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Director of Research, Keystone Accountability
Alex Jacobs is Director of Research at Keystone Accountability. Keystone is a non-profit which seeks to transform performance measurement and reporting in social purpose organisations. Alex was previously founding Director of Mango, and has worked with Oxfam and many other NGOs. He is a visiting fellow at the Skoll Centre in Oxford. He is a trustee of BOND, and chairs BOND’s Quality Working Group. In 2007, Alex was shortlisted for a Beacon Fellowship for his contribution to social causes. Alex is involved in cutting-edge initiatives in accountability, particularly focusing on strengthening constituency voice
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Professor Alex Nicholls MBA is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford and was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in 2004. His research interests range across several key areas within social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including: social and impact investment; the nexus of relationships between accounting, accountability, and governance; public and social policy contexts; and Fair Trade.
To date Alex has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and six books. He has over twelve thousand citations of his work. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.
