MTEI Seminar by Dr. James D. Thompson, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Event details
| Date | 04.04.2014 |
| Hour | 12:00 › 13:30 |
| Speaker | Dr. James Thompson, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
"Social Entrepreneurship"
Social impact enterprises have recently emerged as a dominant trend in international development and have the potential to reshape how we think about business, development, and society. They are far from a new concept, however, and in his book with Ian C. MacMillan, The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook, James Thompson condenses a combined 26 years of Wharton research studying social enterprises in Africa and the U.S into a guide on conceiving, planning and scaling social enterprises which deliver high-impact
Dr. Thompson holds is director and co-founder of the Wharton Social Entrepreneurship Program. He holds a PhD from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and is published in the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, Long Range Planning, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Research-Technology Management Journal.
Social impact enterprises have recently emerged as a dominant trend in international development and have the potential to reshape how we think about business, development, and society. They are far from a new concept, however, and in his book with Ian C. MacMillan, The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook, James Thompson condenses a combined 26 years of Wharton research studying social enterprises in Africa and the U.S into a guide on conceiving, planning and scaling social enterprises which deliver high-impact
Dr. Thompson holds is director and co-founder of the Wharton Social Entrepreneurship Program. He holds a PhD from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and is published in the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, Long Range Planning, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Research-Technology Management Journal.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Management of Technology & Entrepreneurship Institute