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It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change. Take, for example, the issue of economic development.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

What happened in 2006? And Bill Gates announced he was shifting his priorities from software development to social impact by moving full time to his foundation. Note: This post is adapted from my remarks at Babson College’s 2014 Lewis Institute Social Innovator Awards. And is this kind of rapid growth good news?