Over the last few weeks, one of the issues that I have been focused on my twitter stream on is that of social entrepreneurs, more specifically how the term “social entrepreneur” largely implies an organization that (1) solves a social mission and (2) rarely grows bigger than anything “cute”.  That, while there are certainly a [...]

In the above Charlie Rose interview, Jack Ma is asked – and speaks extensively – on CSR  and philanthropy in China.  Interviewed before the now famous Gates and Buffet dinner, the interview couldn’t have come at a better time.   Founder of Alibaba and Taobao (two of China’s most trafficked ecommerce platforms), Jack Ma holds a [...]

In the non-profit realm, there have been fewer hotter topics discussed than the "social enterprise". it is an organization that, if asked to define, would have a spectrum of definitions that were at times vague, romantic, and would leave a lot of questions open about the real difference between an NGO and a social enterprise. [...]