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...commitment, whatever it is, can be realized through a wide range of professions that engage individuals in different ways. The path is certainly not limited to medicine or investment firms, either. It's more challenging to wake up one morning and clearly envision your future life as a social entrepreneur, certain you will help families but uncertain how. That uncertainty, though unsettling, is also incredibly exciting and freeing...
...headed back into the snow on Saturday, I had walked only a couple of blocks and my mind had started to wander when a co-attendee called out, "Look, there goes another social entrepreneur." I laughed, but I took the comment to heart. I am so excited to know so many "social entrepreneurs" creating community change right now, in remarkably varied ways...
...entrepreneur," explains Ashoka's founder and chairman William Drayton, a Yale Law School graduate, "is to see where society is stuck and to find a new way around it." In Drayton's view, there is no difference between those who use their skills in business and those who use them in the pursuit of social goals. More and more people agree. As economic, social and political pressures blur the boundaries between the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds, a new breed of do-gooder is emerging, one that uses techniques and tools honed in the workplace to tackle social...
...primary force in shaping society. Nicholas Lemann, author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, takes a different tack in answering the question, "Who Will Be the Next Elite?" The answer: not yesterday's Wasp or today's SAT high scorer, but the young entrepreneur who IPO'd his way into the ruling class...
Stanley Miller '52, a local entrepreneur and former member of Radcliffe College's Board of Trustees, died of lymphoma last Friday at his Newton home...