Key questions that will be discussed include: Is growth a good thing? How big can a social enterprise grow? What are the implications of growth? What models of growth work and where? Research from the UK, Europe, Latin America and the USA will draw on new insights into the nature of growth and replication in social entrepreneurship.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
15:30 - 17:00, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 BSTSpeakers
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SpeakerAssociate Professor and Coordinator, Andes University SEKNRoberto Gutiérrez chairs the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN), an alliance of 10 universities throughout Ibero America, and directs the Social Enterprise Initiative in the School of Administration at the Universidad de los Andes where he is an Associate Professor. He received a Ph.D. in…
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SpeakerProfessor of Management, Bocconi UniversityFrancesco Perrini is professor of management and CSR at the Institute of Strategy, Department of Management and Technology, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He is also SIF chair of Social Entrepreneurship and senior professor of corporate finance at the Corporate and Real Estate Finance…
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SpeakerProfessor, Duke UniversityJ. Gregory Dees is Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and cofounder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. In 2007, the Aspen Institute and Ashoka recognized his pioneering work with their first Lifetime…
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SpeakerProfessor of Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Centre for Social EntrepreneurshipAlex Nicholls is the first tenured professor in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford. He is also a Tutorial Fellow and Member of the Governing Body at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. In 2004, he was the co-founder of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship…