Social entrepreneurship is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. This concept may be applied to a wide range of organizations, which vary in size, aims, and beliefs. For-profit entrepreneurs typically measure performance using business metrics like profit, revenues and increases in stock prices. Social entrepreneurs, however, are either non-profits, or they blend for-profit goals with generating a positive "return to society". Therefore, they use different metrics. Social entrepreneurship typically attempts to further broad social, cultural, and environmental goals often associated with the voluntary sector in areas such as poverty alleviation, health care and community development.
Iqbal Z. Quadir is an entrepreneur and promoter of the role of entrepreneurship and innovations in creating prosperity in low-income countries. He has taught at Harvard Kennedy School and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Christopher P. Michel is an American investor, entrepreneur and photographer. He is the founder of Affinity Labs and Military.com and runs Nautilus Ventures, a seed venture fund.
Steve Blank is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur based in Pescadero, California.
Entrepreneurship can broadly be defined as the creation or extraction of value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, which may include other values than simply economic ones.
Scott Meadow is a private equity professional and faculty member of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he is a clinical professor of entrepreneurship. He is the recipient of the Richard J. Daley Award. The Daley Medal acknowledges a single individual who has given direct and extraordinary support to the state of Illinois by participating in or being an advocate for the venture capital and private equity industry.
An entrepreneurial ecosystem or entrepreneurship ecosystem is the social and economic environment affecting local or regional entrepreneurship. Businesses located within places serving as incubators for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship have a greater chance of success.
Tarun Khanna is an Indian-born American academic, author, and an economic strategist. He is currently the Jorge Paulo Lemann professor at Harvard Business School; where he is a member of the strategy group, and the director of Harvard University’s South Asia initiative since 2010.
Bon'App, Inc. is a social enterprise in Cambridge, Massachusetts founded by Laurent Adamowicz, a 2011 Senior Fellow of the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Bon'App is an open platform that includes applications for Apple mobile devices, Android phones, and a website. The Bon'App application is type- and voice-powered, instantly telling users what is in their food with a simple language of calories, sugar, salt, and "bad fat". With the official lifting of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's ban on general solicitation on Sept. 23, 2013, Bon'App has officially begun raising capital by offering securities to accredited investors on crowd-funding platform Fundable. In 2014, Bon' App launched a Campus Ambassador Program across the nation to get college students involved with enacting significant food changes on campuses.
T3 Technion Technology Transfer (corporately styled T3 ~ Technion Technology Transfer) is the technology transfer unit of the Technion in Israel. The unit operates under the auspices of the Technion Research & Development Foundation.
Bert W. M. Twaalfhoven is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist from Hilversum, the Netherlands.
Dennis M. Hanno is the current president of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. He was appointed on February 22, 2014 as the college's eighth president, succeeding Ronald Crutcher, who retired in June 2014.
A scaleup (company) is a company who has an average annualized return of at least 20% in the past 3 years with at least 10 employees in the beginning of the period
Karl Hampton Vesper is an American scholar and Professor emeritus of Management, Mechanical Engineering and Marine Studies at the University of Washington (WA). Vesper is known as a pioneer in the field of entrepreneurship research and education. He has launched several entrepreneurship courses and programs, and he has been involved in organizing some of the first conferences on entrepreneurship in the US.
Jeffry A. Timmons (1941–2008) was an American Professor of Entrepreneurship, known as a pioneer of both entrepreneurship research and education. During his career Timmons published several books and over a hundred articles and papers. He lectured on the subjects of entrepreneurship, new ventures, entrepreneurial finance and venture capital. In 2004, Timmons was named Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the United States Association for Small Business Entrepreneurship and is said to be the first to have used the word “entrepreneurial” in a dissertation title, in his 1971 dissertation from Harvard Business School: “Entrepreneurial and Leadership Development in an Inner City Ghetto and a Rural Depressed Area”.
William B. Gartner is an American Professor of entrepreneurship. He is known for his research on new venture creation and entrepreneurial behavior, for which he has received several awards, including the Heizer Doctoral Dissertation Award and the FSFNUTEK International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. Gartner was one of the pioneering entrepreneurship research scholars in the 1980s, when there was a shift of focus in the field from studying the individual traits of the entrepreneur to regarding entrepreneurship as a behavioral process.
William A. Sahlman is an American academic. He is a professor emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He has published research about entrepreneurship, including over 150 business cases. He is the co-author or co-editor of three books.
Leonard A. (Len) Schlesinger is an American author, educator, and business leader. He is currently the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and President Emeritus of Babson College where he served as the college's 12th President from 2008 through 2013.
Alvogen is an American pharmaceuticals company founded in 2009. In 2014 a controlling stake in the company was acquired by CVC Capital Partners and Temasek Holdings. Alvogen has about 350 different medical and non-medical products, and both produces its own products and markets the products of brand name pharmaceutical companies.
Ron Zwanziger is an American businessman. He is best known for founding and leading the diagnostic test manufacturer Alere.
