Word: bd
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...BD: I taught at the Law School here before, so it’s not my first time back. But I see that the quality of the spirit hasn’t change in the students. One of the things that has changed is the amount of students interested in the citizen sector. When I went here, that was a small minority, but that has changed dramatically...
...BD: It’s a deep structural change, and it only began, [fundamentally], around 1980. That’s a radical change in 25 to 30 years. It took 300 years for the business sector to grow at this rate, since the 1700’s. It’s taken the citizen sector 30 years. That’s not a fashion, that’s an entrepreneurial change...
...BD: I went to India, as a sophomore at the College, and that is what drove me. There, I learned a tremendous amount. These are people in one village, whom I am still close to, and the decisions we make affect them...
...BD: We focus on the moment, when an idea and an entrepreneur intersect in their life cycles. Then, the entrepreneur steps out of the mold. No one will support them, but Ashoka will. By year five, our fellows, who we select as the most influential entrepreneurs in a country, half of them change social policy in their country. We make a very small investment, but with this, you create a huge social impact...
...BD: It’s Sanskrit for “the act of absence of sorrow,” but we base it off Ashoka the Great, the Indian emperor, who reigned over India’s military empire in the third century B.C. He led many bloody military conquests, but afterward, he felt a deep regret for his actions, so he put up edicts, in stone, across the empire. They read, “the wars and bloodshed were wrong and unjust...