Are you interested in social entrepreneurship?
SIS has launched a school-wide Social Enterprise Initiative. Based in the new SIS home (a structure designed by a leading social entrepreneur, William McDonough), it builds on and expands our approach to teaching social entrepreneurship. For many years our graduates have started new NGOs and led change efforts in existing international organization. We have always been a school centered on a mission of service. This initiative is the latest expression of that purpose.
The centerpiece of the Initiative is our new graduate Master of Arts degree program in social enterprise.
The Initiative is intended to support SIS students who want to create and work in social ventures. These drive societal change by providing innovative, economically sustainable solutions to public problems.
Social ventures selectively borrow and adapt the logic of the private sector to address issues that have traditionally been beyond its scope. They often work across established sectors, blurring distinctions among public, private, and nonprofit activities.
Terminology
Social entrepreneurs are people who apply the techniques of business and innovation to solve social problems.
Social innovation is what they do, and social enterprises are what they create.
Social enterprises may be new, stand-alone, economically sustainable organizations, or they may involve change and innovation within existing structures.
People skilled at leading change from within are social intrapreneurs.
