The Problems and Perils of Scaling
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Session Description
Scaling to achieve systemic change is enormously difficult and fraught with external and internal challenges. Here social entrepreneurs will share with delegates how they have spread their innovations and changed the lives of millions, their challenges and victories, their mistakes and successes.
Time & Location
Time:
14:00 - 16:00, Wednesday, March 28, 2007
BST
Speakers
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President and Co-Founder, Homeless World Cup
Mel Young is recognised as one of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. In 1993 he co-founded The Big Issue in Scotland, with Tricia Hughes. The weekly magazine is sold by homeless people in the streets of Scotland and now has a…
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Mechai Viravaidya’s work centered on reducing births (family planning), reducing deaths (fighting the spread of HIV), reducing dependency (establishing social enterprises), eradicating poverty (community empowerment) and reducing ignorance (reinventing Thai education).
He was also appointed to…
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Director (2009-2016), Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Dr. Pamela Hartigan was Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Said Business School at the University of Oxford from 2009 until her passing in 2016. She was also founding partner of Volans Ventures, an organization focused on building innovative scalable solutions to challenges…
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Chairman, Development Alternatives Group
Ashok Khosla is Chairman of the Development Alternatives Group, a consortium of social enterprises based in India whose mission is to create technologies, businesses and markets for large scale generation of sustainable livelihoods. He is also co-Chair of DESI Power Pvt Ltd, a company…