Today's Questions 1) What is the difference between entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs? 2) What defines excellent social entrepreneur(ship)? Review Yesterday's Questions 1) What is our working definition of social entrepreneurship? 2) What did you pull away from the videos that you took notes on yesterday/last night? ---> What is a working definition? It's a definition being developed; a tentative definition that can be tailored to create an authoritative definition. Skoll Videos: Testing Our Definition of "Social Entrepreneur" Watch the videos and answer these questions on paper if you were absent. 1) What's the problem? 2) What's the opportunity? 3) What's the game changing idea? 4) Does the person/organization meet our working definition of social entrepreneur? Stanford Social Innovation Review Article "Social Entrepreneurship: The Case For Definition" 2007 I summarized this academic, peer-reviewed article that offers a very thorough approach to defining "social entrepreneurship" If you are up for a challenge and you are in a heady mood, then feel free to read it! There's some amazing work in the article, for sure. This is PhD level stuff! Check it out! Stephen's Quick and Dirty Guide to the Article
Fortunately, we weren't the only ones who thought that! ....... The Power of A Simple and Inclusive Definition If you were absent, please follow these instructions and answer the questions on your "Social Entrepreneurship Notes" 1) Click the link (the title above this) and CLOSELY read and annotate the article. -Look up the words you don't know. I mean it! -What questions do you have? What do you notice and wonder? 2) What does the author of the article state as the problem? 3) Why is this a problem? 4) Who is Muhammad Yunus? 5) Why did the authors develop a new definition of "social entrepreneurship?" What was the historical context? 6) What is the new definition provided? Define all the words you don't know! 7) List the 5-point checklist that describes an EXCELLENT social entrepreneur 8) Why is it important to have a clear, simple, welcoming definition of social entrepreneurship. Homework
If you were absent: 1) please complete today's "Skoll Video" assignment and "The Power of A Simple..." assignment by Monday.
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