1. THE SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
SEMINAR
How To Change the World
&
Join the Fastest Growing
Movement in Human History
2. THE SOCIAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
SEMINAR
How To Change the World
&
Join the Fastest Growing
Movement in Human History
3. Goal-Setting for the Day
• Walk-in with ______ ___________
• Leave with ________ ___________
• Set your outcome now: “today, I ________
_________”
• Within 1 month, you will have
accomplished _______ ________
8. Workshop Questions
1. How can I become a changemaker? Am I a social entrepreneur? Can I be?
2. How do I create a personal mission statement to give clarity to my career
goals?
9. Workshop Questions
1. How can I become a changemaker? Am I a social entrepreneur? Can I be?
2. How do I create a personal mission statement to give clarity to my career
goals?
3. Which kind of innovative opportunities addressing sustainability are
available to me?
10. Workshop Questions
1. How can I become a changemaker? Am I a social entrepreneur? Can I be?
2. How do I create a personal mission statement to give clarity to my career
goals?
3. Which kind of innovative opportunities addressing sustainability are
available to me?
4. Is it really possible to “do well” and “do good”? If so, how?
11. Workshop Questions
1. How can I become a changemaker? Am I a social entrepreneur? Can I be?
2. How do I create a personal mission statement to give clarity to my career
goals?
3. Which kind of innovative opportunities addressing sustainability are
available to me?
4. Is it really possible to “do well” and “do good”? If so, how?
5. How do I fund my passion? How do I monetize my initiative?
12. Workshop Questions
1. How can I become a changemaker? Am I a social entrepreneur? Can I be?
2. How do I create a personal mission statement to give clarity to my career
goals?
3. Which kind of innovative opportunities addressing sustainability are
available to me?
4. Is it really possible to “do well” and “do good”? If so, how?
5. How do I fund my passion? How do I monetize my initiative?
6. What are the resources that can support my vision?
13. Workshop Questions
1. How can I become a changemaker? Am I a social entrepreneur? Can I be?
2. How do I create a personal mission statement to give clarity to my career
goals?
3. Which kind of innovative opportunities addressing sustainability are
available to me?
4. Is it really possible to “do well” and “do good”? If so, how?
5. How do I fund my passion? How do I monetize my initiative?
6. What are the resources that can support my vision?
7. How do I find and connect with organizations related to my career goals?
14. Workshop Questions
1. How can I become a changemaker? Am I a social entrepreneur? Can I be?
2. How do I create a personal mission statement to give clarity to my career
goals?
3. Which kind of innovative opportunities addressing sustainability are
available to me?
4. Is it really possible to “do well” and “do good”? If so, how?
5. How do I fund my passion? How do I monetize my initiative?
6. What are the resources that can support my vision?
7. How do I find and connect with organizations related to my career goals?
8. What is the importance of personal contacts to fulfilling my career goals?
How about mentors?
17. The Global Movement:
Driving Forces
“We are seeing a ‘revolution in the organization of
human society.’ When the history of these times are
written, no other change will compete with it in
terms of importance...”
18. The Global Movement:
Driving Forces
“We are seeing a ‘revolution in the organization of
human society.’ When the history of these times are
written, no other change will compete with it in
terms of importance...”
You
20. The Great Consciousness Shift
“History talks mostly of political revolutions...But occasionally
something different happens, a collective awakening to new
possibilities that changes everything... how people see the
world, what they value, how society defines progress...and how
institutions operate.The Renaissance was such a shift, as was
the Industrial Revolution. So, too, is what is starting to happen
around the world today.”
-Peter Senge, MIT, Author of The Necessary Revolution
23. “We ruin kids be pressuring them...asking them all
the time, ‘What do you want to do when you grow
up?’ or ‘What’s your major?’ they get to the false
impression that they’re supposed to know and have
THE answer. They feel bad for not knowing.
Nobody knows. Not in college. It does nothing but
stress them out.”
-Po Bronson, What Should I Do With My Life?
30. The Next-Gen Movement
❖ Optimistic, not pessimistic or vengeful
❖ Tolerant, diverse and more mature than predecessor generations
31. The Next-Gen Movement
❖ Optimistic, not pessimistic or vengeful
❖ Tolerant, diverse and more mature than predecessor generations
❖ Aware of and realistic about the challenges and more
knowledgeable in our world view
32. The Next-Gen Movement
❖ Optimistic, not pessimistic or vengeful
❖ Tolerant, diverse and more mature than predecessor generations
❖ Aware of and realistic about the challenges and more
knowledgeable in our world view
❖ Believe in technology and our ability to innovate out of the mess
we are inheriting
33. The Next-Gen Movement
❖ Optimistic, not pessimistic or vengeful
❖ Tolerant, diverse and more mature than predecessor generations
❖ Aware of and realistic about the challenges and more
knowledgeable in our world view
❖ Believe in technology and our ability to innovate out of the mess
we are inheriting
❖ Embrace plenitude, while rejecting disparity
34. The Next-Gen Movement
❖ Optimistic, not pessimistic or vengeful
❖ Tolerant, diverse and more mature than predecessor generations
❖ Aware of and realistic about the challenges and more
knowledgeable in our world view
❖ Believe in technology and our ability to innovate out of the mess
we are inheriting
❖ Embrace plenitude, while rejecting disparity
❖ Exhausted with punditry and bickering, energized by post-
partisan, post-ideological, and post-political values
35. The Next-Gen Movement
❖ Optimistic, not pessimistic or vengeful
❖ Tolerant, diverse and more mature than predecessor generations
❖ Aware of and realistic about the challenges and more
knowledgeable in our world view
❖ Believe in technology and our ability to innovate out of the mess
we are inheriting
❖ Embrace plenitude, while rejecting disparity
❖ Exhausted with punditry and bickering, energized by post-
partisan, post-ideological, and post-political values
❖ Accept the urgency of problems: “Youth Are the Present!"
36. The Next-Gen Movement
❖ Optimistic, not pessimistic or vengeful
❖ Tolerant, diverse and more mature than predecessor generations
❖ Aware of and realistic about the challenges and more
knowledgeable in our world view
❖ Believe in technology and our ability to innovate out of the mess
we are inheriting
❖ Embrace plenitude, while rejecting disparity
❖ Exhausted with punditry and bickering, energized by post-
partisan, post-ideological, and post-political values
❖ Accept the urgency of problems: “Youth Are the Present!"
❖ WE BELIEVE IN THE GREATER GOOD AND ARE
DEDICATING OURSELVES TO ACHIEVING IT !!!
37. “After today's presentation, I chose to stick my foot in the door of opportunity... I will
do whatever it takes to begin my journey to becoming a social entrepreneur, even if it
means not letting someone like you forget my name. At the age of sixteen, I get a lot
of people who think my ideas, dreams, goals, and hopes are purely naive. I will build
schools, orphanages, and apply any and all of my skills in whatever way possible, as
well as acquire some new ones. My interests involve mostly children, but my passion is
in helping people in general.You started your career at a young age, and took off to
Greece for apparently no reason, so I'm sure that you have experienced this issue as
well. I am in need of your help. Everyone tells me that the chances of me making a
difference in this way are slim, one in a million. Mr. Hopkins, not only am I one in a
million, but I am one in 6,810,100,000 (latest Wikipedia estimate), and what I want
is to view the world in a way that makes more sense. I want to know what CULTURE
is. I want not only to know, but experience it, and most importantly be a part of it.
Please help me. There is so much that I don't know, and it is all out there waiting for
me to discover.”
- Student, Flathead High School
40. What is a social entrepreneur?
n. society’s change agent, a pioneer of
innovations that benefit humanity
41. What is a social entrepreneur?
n. society’s change agent, a pioneer of
innovations that benefit humanity
entrepreneurs with a social
or environmental mission
42. What is a social entrepreneur?
n. society’s change agent, a pioneer of
innovations that benefit humanity
entrepreneurs with a social
or environmental mission
Central purpose = mission-related impact
(not wealth creation, wealth is a means to
and end)
45. Where We’re Going
PAST EMPHASIS
RESULT = DESTRUCTIVE ECONOMY
The industrial age
Left-brain logic
Linear thinking
Status quo
Accounting models
Decisions based on past experience
Organizational hierarchy
Authoritative leadership
Teaching organizations
Relentless growth
Short-term profits
Reactive corporate responsibility
Minimizing environmental damage
Reducing social injustices
Limited self-interest
46. Where We’re Going
PAST EMPHASIS FUTURE EMPHASIS
RESULT = DESTRUCTIVE ECONOMY RESULT = CONSTRUCTIVE ECONOMY
The industrial age
Left-brain logic
Linear thinking
Status quo
Accounting models
Decisions based on past experience
Organizational hierarchy
Authoritative leadership
Teaching organizations
Relentless growth
Short-term profits
Reactive corporate responsibility
Minimizing environmental damage
Reducing social injustices
Limited self-interest
47. Where We’re Going
PAST EMPHASIS FUTURE EMPHASIS
RESULT = DESTRUCTIVE ECONOMY RESULT = CONSTRUCTIVE ECONOMY
The industrial age The conceptual age
Left-brain logic Right brain creativity
Linear thinking Systems thinking
Status quo A liberated frame of mind
Accounting models Nature models
Decisions based on past experience Decisions based on future potential
Organizational hierarchy Organizational fluidity
Authoritative leadership Adaptive leadership
Teaching organizations Learning organizations
Relentless growth Organic growth
Short-term profits Long-term prosperity
Reactive corporate responsibility Proactive corporate responsibility
Minimizing environmental damage Minimizing environmental repair
Reducing social injustices Strengthening communities
Limited self-interest Higher purpose
48. Waves of Innovation by Generation
Source: Hunter Lovins, Natural Capital Solutions
49. Waves of Innovation by Generation
Source: Hunter Lovins, Natural Capital Solutions
50. Waves of Innovation by Generation
The Great Blending
Source: Hunter Lovins, Natural Capital Solutions
51. Waves of Innovation by Generation
The Great Blending
Source: Hunter Lovins, Natural Capital Solutions
52. Waves of Innovation by Generation
The Great Blending
Source: Hunter Lovins, Natural Capital Solutions
53. Entrepreneur vs. Social Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur = French, someone who “undertakes” a
project or activity
“Venturesome individuals who stimulate economic
progress by finding new and better ways of doing things.”
Jean-Baptiste Say (19th c. France): “the entrepreneurs
shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and
into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.”
54. Entrepreneur vs. Social Entrepreneur
20th c. Joseph Schumpeter: “innovators who drive the
creative-destructive process of capitalism.”
“the function of entrepreneurs is to reform or
revolutionize the pattern of production” = change agents in
the economy.
... “by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried
technological possibility for producing a new commodity
or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a
new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for
products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.”
55. Entrepreneur vs. Social Entrepreneur
Peter Drucker:
“Not every new small business is entrepreneurial or
represents entrepreneurship...husband and wife who open
another delicatessen store or another Mexican restaurant
in the American suburb...there is nothing especially
innovative or change-oriented in this. The same would be
true of new not-for-profit organizations. Not every new
organization would be entrepreneurial...”
56. How Attitudes
Changed Over the Past 50 years
1962:
2010:
57. How Attitudes
Changed Over the Past 50 years
1962: “The Business of Business is Business”
2010:
58. How Attitudes
Changed Over the Past 50 years
1962: “The Business of Business is Business”
2010:
59. How Attitudes
Changed Over the Past 50 years
1962: “The Business of Business is Business”
2010: “Business must be part of the solution to social and
environmental problems”
61. How Do Social Entrepreneurs
Think Differently?
• Role of markets? Price and value creation?
62. How Do Social Entrepreneurs
Think Differently?
• Role of markets? Price and value creation?
• Income and capital generation?
63. How Do Social Entrepreneurs
Think Differently?
• Role of markets? Price and value creation?
• Income and capital generation?
• Measurement and metrics of success?
64. How Do Social Entrepreneurs
Think Differently?
• Role of markets? Price and value creation?
• Income and capital generation?
• Measurement and metrics of success?
• Stakeholder investment?
65. How Do Social Entrepreneurs
Think Differently?
• Role of markets? Price and value creation?
• Income and capital generation?
• Measurement and metrics of success?
• Stakeholder investment?
• Competition? Customers?
66. How Do Social Entrepreneurs
Think Differently?
• Role of markets? Price and value creation?
• Income and capital generation?
• Measurement and metrics of success?
• Stakeholder investment?
• Competition? Customers?
• Who is paying for products and services and who is
benefitting?
67. How Do Social Entrepreneurs
Think Differently?
• Role of markets? Price and value creation?
• Income and capital generation?
• Measurement and metrics of success?
• Stakeholder investment?
• Competition? Customers?
• Who is paying for products and services and who is
benefitting?
• Managing risk?
68. How Do Social Entrepreneurs
Think Differently?
• Role of markets? Price and value creation?
• Income and capital generation?
• Measurement and metrics of success?
• Stakeholder investment?
• Competition? Customers?
• Who is paying for products and services and who is
benefitting?
• Managing risk?
• Systems thinking?
70. Characteristics of
Social Entrepreneurs
• They have a well-developed theory of change
71. Characteristics of
Social Entrepreneurs
• They have a well-developed theory of change
• They focus on social and environmental challenges
72. Characteristics of
Social Entrepreneurs
• They have a well-developed theory of change
• They focus on social and environmental challenges
• They seek systemic solutions
73. Characteristics of
Social Entrepreneurs
• They have a well-developed theory of change
• They focus on social and environmental challenges
• They seek systemic solutions
• They think “out of the box”
74. Characteristics of
Social Entrepreneurs
• They have a well-developed theory of change
• They focus on social and environmental challenges
• They seek systemic solutions
• They think “out of the box”
• They replicate and scale their model - where applicable
75. Characteristics of
Social Entrepreneurs
• They have a well-developed theory of change
• They focus on social and environmental challenges
• They seek systemic solutions
• They think “out of the box”
• They replicate and scale their model - where applicable
• They collaborate across traditional boundaries
76. Characteristics of
Social Entrepreneurs
• They have a well-developed theory of change
• They focus on social and environmental challenges
• They seek systemic solutions
• They think “out of the box”
• They replicate and scale their model - where applicable
• They collaborate across traditional boundaries
• They implement, using for-profit, not-for-profit and hybrid
models
77. Characteristics of
Social Entrepreneurs
• They have a well-developed theory of change
• They focus on social and environmental challenges
• They seek systemic solutions
• They think “out of the box”
• They replicate and scale their model - where applicable
• They collaborate across traditional boundaries
• They implement, using for-profit, not-for-profit and hybrid
models
• Unlike business entrepreneurs, they share their ideas
78. “Social entrepreneurs combine street pragmatism with
professional skill, visionary insights with pragmatism, and
ethical fiber with tactical thrust. They see opportunities
where others only see empty buildings, unemployable
people and unvalued resources. Radical thinking is what
makes social entrepreneurs different from simply 'good
people'. They make markets work for people, not the
other way around, and gain strength from a wide
network of alliances. They can 'boundary-ride' between
the various political rhetorics and social paradigms to
enthuse all sectors of society.”
79. Bill Drayton, Founder,
Ashoka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DttTSJEO47g&feature=channel
80.
81. ❖ Connectivity is productivity
❖ Partnered with Grameen Bank
❖ Microloans to “phone ladies”
❖ In first 7 years, sold or rented mobile phones
to 60,000+ rural villages, reaching 100 million
people
❖ Subscriber network of 15 million
❖ In 2004, American investors sold their small
stake in GrameenPhone to Telenor for $33
million
82.
83.
84.
85. A low-tech fun
solution
supplying water
to rural villages
86. A low-tech fun
solution
supplying water
to rural villages
87. A low-tech fun
solution
supplying water
to rural villages
88. A low-tech fun
solution
supplying water
to rural villages
89. • $71 million in loans in 4 years
• 573,000 lenders
• 239,000 entrepreneurs
• Average loan $100
• Repayment rate 98%
90. • $71 million in loans in 4 years
• 573,000 lenders
• 239,000 entrepreneurs
• Average loan $100
• Repayment rate 98%
91. Peer-to-peer internet
microloans
• $71 million in loans in 4 years
• 573,000 lenders
• 239,000 entrepreneurs
• Average loan $100
• Repayment rate 98%
92. Peer-to-peer internet
microloans
• $71 million in loans in 4 years
• 573,000 lenders
• 239,000 entrepreneurs
• Average loan $100
• Repayment rate 98%
93. Peer-to-peer internet
microloans
• $71 million in loans in 4 years
• 573,000 lenders
• 239,000 entrepreneurs
• Average loan $100
• Repayment rate 98%
94. Peer-to-peer internet
microloans
• $71 million in loans in 4 years
• 573,000 lenders
• 239,000 entrepreneurs
• Average loan $100
• Repayment rate 98%
95. Peer-to-peer internet
microloans
• $71 million in loans in 4 years
• 573,000 lenders
• 239,000 entrepreneurs
• Average loan $100
• Repayment rate 98%
119. Source of Funds
From Donors Hybrid From Operations
Fewer Barriors
Room to Read KIVA
CIDA
Hybrid
GrameenPhone
Mapendo
Substantial Barriors
Substantial Barriors and
Fully Funded From Operations
120. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
121. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
1. What am I passionate about?
122. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
1. What am I passionate about?
2. What is the need I
want to address?
123. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
1. What am I passionate about?
2. What is the need I 3. What skills do I have
want to address? or can develop?
124. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
1. What am I passionate about?
4. My Mission
Statement
2. What is the need I 3. What skills do I have
want to address? or can develop?
125. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
1. What am I passionate about?
4. My Mission
#5.
Statement
2. What is the need I 3. What skills do I have
want to address? or can develop?
126. 3 Elements of Personal
Leadership
1. Vision - core ideology and envisioned future (vivid
descriptions and 10-30 year goals)
2. Capacities - capacities enable us to respond fully to a domain
of life experience: for ex., courage in response to danger,
compassion in response to loss, dignity or humility in response
to failure or rejection
3. Support - an external environment which welcomes the
expression of your needs in order to fulfill your vision. This
includes people who believe in your vision, who help you to
learn from your mistakes, who encourage your
acknowledgement of your needs, and who are willing to hold
you accountable for your mistakes
127. Consequences of
Undeveloped Element
Vision + Capacities - Support = lack of risk-
taking or innovation; individualism
Vision - Capacities + Support = lack of
decision-making; paralysis
Capacities + Support - Vision = Lack of
direction or progress; going round in circles
128. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
129. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
1. What am I passionate about?
130. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
1. What am I passionate about?
2. What is the need I
want to address?
131. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
1. What am I passionate about?
2. What is the need I 3. What skills do I have
want to address? or can develop?
132. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
1. What am I passionate about?
4. My Mission
Statement
2. What is the need I 3. What skills do I have
want to address? or can develop?
133. “Doing Well” while “Doing Good” Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
1. What am I passionate about?
4. My Mission
#5.
Statement
2. What is the need I 3. What skills do I have
want to address? or can develop?
138. How Do You
Connect With A Cause?
Employee
Engagement
Workplace Development Energy Efficiency Biodiversity Preservation
Corporate Governance Product Safety Recycling and Waste Reusal
Healthcare and Benefits Gender Equity Triple-Bottom Line Accounting
Alliances with NGOs Poverty Alleviation Resources Management
Employee Health & Safety Carbon Emissions Reduction
Transformational Executive Leadership
Emergency Aid
Community Development and Investment Protection of Natural Resources
Animal Treatment and Protection
Creation of Green Jobs Philanthropy and Grantmaking
Cause-Related Branding
Microfinancing Supply Chain Management
Human Rights and Fair Labor Education Sponsorships
141. Doing Well & Doing Good Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
#5.
142. Doing Well & Doing Good Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
Passion
My Mission
Statement
Need Skills
#5.
143. Doing Well & Doing Good Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
Passion
My Mission
Statement
Need Skills
Full-time Jobs Internships
Part-time Service
#5.
144. Doing Well & Doing Good Pyramid
A Career Development 5 step process
Passion
My Mission
Statement
Need Skills
Full-time Jobs Internships
Part-time Service
#5.
Career Options
145.
146. What challenges get in your way now?
What is holding you back?
What are the greatest potential
future obstacles?
147. 3 Choices to Begin
• Give money to an organization that is
addressing the issue you care about
• Work for an organization that interests
you, as a volunteer or as a paid employee
• Start your own initiative by replicating an
existing initiative, or developing your own
148. What is the importance of
intergenerational dialogue?
How can we foster greater
multi-gen collaboration?
152. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Seminars
• Personal Coaching
153. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Seminars
• Personal Coaching
• Strategic Consulting
154. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Seminars
• Personal Coaching
• Strategic Consulting
• Schools and
Universities
155. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Seminars
• Personal Coaching
• Strategic Consulting
• Schools and
Universities
• Books and Magazines
156. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Seminars
• Personal Coaching
• Strategic Consulting
• Schools and
Universities
• Books and Magazines
• Blogs and interactive
online
157. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Conferences
• Seminars
• Personal Coaching
• Strategic Consulting
• Schools and
Universities
• Books and Magazines
• Blogs and interactive
online
158. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Conferences
• Seminars
• Website Databases
• Personal Coaching and Portals
• Strategic Consulting
• Schools and
Universities
• Books and Magazines
• Blogs and interactive
online
159. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Conferences
• Seminars
• Website Databases
• Personal Coaching and Portals
• Strategic Consulting • Fellowships and
Awards
• Schools and
Universities
• Books and Magazines
• Blogs and interactive
online
160. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Conferences
• Seminars
• Website Databases
• Personal Coaching and Portals
• Strategic Consulting • Fellowships and
Awards
• Schools and
Universities • Social Media
• Books and Magazines
• Blogs and interactive
online
161. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Conferences
• Seminars
• Website Databases
• Personal Coaching and Portals
• Strategic Consulting • Fellowships and
Awards
• Schools and
Universities • Social Media
• Books and Magazines • Newsletters and
Listservs
• Blogs and interactive
online
162. Resources
• Mentors and Peers
• Conferences
• Seminars
• Website Databases
• Personal Coaching and Portals
• Strategic Consulting • Fellowships and
Awards
• Schools and
Universities • Social Media
• Books and Magazines • Newsletters and
Listservs
• Blogs and interactive
online • Family and Friends
Hinweis der Redaktion
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WW
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DH - If we leave it in.
DH - If we leave it in.
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DH - If we leave it in.
DH - If we leave it in.
WW:
The term CSR was coined in the 1950s in the US, although the concepts are age old. The Co-operative Bank, Ben & Jerry's and Body Shop have made their name on CSR-style ethical principles before the term was coined.
WW tells his 1984 Hong Kong story - The field of CSR has come a long way over the past 25 years!- In 1984, I was the publisher of a Boston based newspaper, called The WorldPaper, that appeared in 27 countries in 6 language editions. Our issue in APril of that year was devoted to CSR and we decided to have a conference in HK on the subject.
- About 60 business leaders came, all men, about 50% Chinese and 50% U.S. companies
- With very few exceptions they considered CSR as a PR issue not a central concern of business, quoting Milton Friedman, the famous Chicago based economist, that “The Biz of Biz was Biz”, and that their shareholders were the only stakeholders who counted. I told them that there were forces at work that would force them them to define their stakeholders in much broader terms. They disagreed. The world has come a long way since then, and our three part presentation this morning highlights were it has gotten to and where it is going.
"MILTON FRIEDMAN, CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM 135 (1962)" Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundation of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.
The Tutu knife story: Like a knife, business is neutral.
WW:
The term CSR was coined in the 1950s in the US, although the concepts are age old. The Co-operative Bank, Ben & Jerry's and Body Shop have made their name on CSR-style ethical principles before the term was coined.
WW tells his 1984 Hong Kong story - The field of CSR has come a long way over the past 25 years!- In 1984, I was the publisher of a Boston based newspaper, called The WorldPaper, that appeared in 27 countries in 6 language editions. Our issue in APril of that year was devoted to CSR and we decided to have a conference in HK on the subject.
- About 60 business leaders came, all men, about 50% Chinese and 50% U.S. companies
- With very few exceptions they considered CSR as a PR issue not a central concern of business, quoting Milton Friedman, the famous Chicago based economist, that “The Biz of Biz was Biz”, and that their shareholders were the only stakeholders who counted. I told them that there were forces at work that would force them them to define their stakeholders in much broader terms. They disagreed. The world has come a long way since then, and our three part presentation this morning highlights were it has gotten to and where it is going.
"MILTON FRIEDMAN, CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM 135 (1962)" Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundation of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.
The Tutu knife story: Like a knife, business is neutral.
WW:
The term CSR was coined in the 1950s in the US, although the concepts are age old. The Co-operative Bank, Ben & Jerry's and Body Shop have made their name on CSR-style ethical principles before the term was coined.
WW tells his 1984 Hong Kong story - The field of CSR has come a long way over the past 25 years!- In 1984, I was the publisher of a Boston based newspaper, called The WorldPaper, that appeared in 27 countries in 6 language editions. Our issue in APril of that year was devoted to CSR and we decided to have a conference in HK on the subject.
- About 60 business leaders came, all men, about 50% Chinese and 50% U.S. companies
- With very few exceptions they considered CSR as a PR issue not a central concern of business, quoting Milton Friedman, the famous Chicago based economist, that “The Biz of Biz was Biz”, and that their shareholders were the only stakeholders who counted. I told them that there were forces at work that would force them them to define their stakeholders in much broader terms. They disagreed. The world has come a long way since then, and our three part presentation this morning highlights were it has gotten to and where it is going.
"MILTON FRIEDMAN, CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM 135 (1962)" Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundation of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.
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- While grad students at Stanford Biz school, they realized that if Muhammud Yunus and Iqbal Quadir could make microloans in Bangladesh to local entrepreneurs why not use the internet to make similar loans around the world
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- While grad students at Stanford Biz school, they realized that if Muhammud Yunus and Iqbal Quadir could make microloans in Bangladesh to local entrepreneurs why not use the internet to make similar loans around the world
WW
- While grad students at Stanford Biz school, they realized that if Muhammud Yunus and Iqbal Quadir could make microloans in Bangladesh to local entrepreneurs why not use the internet to make similar loans around the world
WW
- While grad students at Stanford Biz school, they realized that if Muhammud Yunus and Iqbal Quadir could make microloans in Bangladesh to local entrepreneurs why not use the internet to make similar loans around the world
WW
- While grad students at Stanford Biz school, they realized that if Muhammud Yunus and Iqbal Quadir could make microloans in Bangladesh to local entrepreneurs why not use the internet to make similar loans around the world
WW
- While grad students at Stanford Biz school, they realized that if Muhammud Yunus and Iqbal Quadir could make microloans in Bangladesh to local entrepreneurs why not use the internet to make similar loans around the world