By Aekta Shah & Katerina Stephan As the early morning fog dissipated into scattered rays of Caribbean sunshine, 16 sleepy-eyed college students devoured their bowls of Haitian-style oatmeal, soaking up the welcomed, unfamiliar warmth, and watching as a slender man herded his cows through the stream below. It was serene. Read more…
Advanced Studies in Social Enterprise Capstone to Tennessee By Sydney Banks On March 7th, fourteen Northeastern students enrolled in ENTR4506, “Advanced Studies in Social Entrepreneurship,” traveled to Tennessee and Kentucky to take part in a week-long field visit to social enterprises and social entrepreneurial communities in both urban Nashville and Read more…
Graduates with Social Enterprise Ambitions By Dr. Gordon K Adomdza, Executive Professor It’s close to another graduation ceremony and many students who have experienced the power of social impact and social enterprise in doing good are faced with the usual dilemma; should they take that well-paying, less “social”, job? After Read more…
By Professor Dennis R. Shaughnessy My social enterprise and honors students have been working on a new assignment this term. The gist: Why isn’t there a Nobel Prize for Business? If there were to be one in the future, what would it look like and who should win it? The Read more…
by Dennis R. Shaughnessy While many young people dream of a job in Silicon Valley working for a tech start-up upon graduation from college or business school, increasingly there are others who feel drawn to a different dream and a different kind of hub for start-ups. Nairobi, Kenya is now Read more…