What are the Challenges and Opportunities for Growth in Social Entrpreneurship?
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Session Description
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.
Time & Location
Time:
15:30 - 17:00, Wednesday, March 28, 2007
BST
Speakers
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Speaker
Associate Professor and Coordinator, Andes University SEKN
Roberto 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 Sociology from Johns Hopkins University and, in 2000, an Academic Excellence Award from the school for his research and teaching. He has published articles about alliances, social enterprises, education, and development in popular media and academic journals —among them the American Sociological Review, the Review of Educational Research, the Journal of Management Education, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Recently he was co-editor of the book Effective Management in Social Enterprise: Lessons from Business and Civil Society Organizations in Ibero America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
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Professor of Management, Bocconi University
Francesco 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 Department, SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is director of the Center of Università Bocconi for Research on Sustainability and Value (CReSV) head of Bocconi CSR Unit, Department of Management and Technology, Università Bocconi, and coordinator of CSR Activities Group at SDA Bocconi. His research areas are management of corporate development processes, from strategy implementation (acquisitions and strategic alliances) to financial strategies and valuation; small-and medium-sized enterprises; and social issues in management: corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, social entrepreneurship, social innovation and socially responsible investing.
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Professor, Duke University
J. 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 Achievement award in Social Entrepreneurship Education. He has published extensively on social entrepreneurship, and previously taught at the Yale School of Management, Harvard Business School, and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He has also worked on economic development in the Central Appalachian region of the United States, and served as a consultant with McKinsey & Company.
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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.
