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Social Entrepreneurship: Challenges, Rewards, and Opportunities

Thursday, November 3, 2005

12 Noon - 2 p.m. -- Atwater Kent Room 233 (Media Room)

Social Entrepreneurship is the field that holds the promise of solving some of our society's most fundamental, challenging and intractable social problems.

Whether you decide to work directly for or with a social oriented enterprise, non government agency, educational institute or charity, you will need to understand the unique characteristics of working in the not-for-profit sector.

If you choose to work for an industrial or business venture, you will at some point be expected to contribute your time, experience and knowledge to assist or lead an effort to support a social enterprise. This may be for your local school, church, community action group, local authority or social service agency.

This interactive workshop will:

• Identify unique obstacles and constraints faced by social entrepreneurs
• Summarize some of the major issues and challenges facing new social ventures
• Review some of the fundamental differences between business and social entrepreneurs
• Consider some outstanding success during the past few years
• Look at why President Clinton said last month "we know how to solve (all) the world's problem of poverty, health and education. Now we just need to get on with it and do it." Was he right?

Fifteen years ago there were two Universities that gave courses in Social Entrepreneurship - today 40 universities give degrees in the subject in the United States and many others around the globe. Should WPI offer degree granting courses in Social Entrepreneurship?

About the speaker

Henry Strage is a former Senior Director of McKinsey & Company, currently a business consultant, and ever a leader in social causes. He has directed major studies for global enterprises in the pharmaceutical, engineering, energy, chemical, financial, high technology and electronics industries. His professional career is a wide range of international and national activities. He was a Professor of Strategic Studies at a European Business School and has taught and lectured at several other leading Business schools in Europe and the United States as well as in Israel, Russia and Slovak Republic. He currently serves on the Dean's Advisory Board to two major US Universities.

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