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Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8028BC-EEntrepreneurshipSocial and environmental entrepreneurs are learning to channel their convictions, boundless creativity, and ability to amass the necessary resources into building sustainable systems and structures that address the most pressing market failures of our time. In this chapter, the authors examine the three categories of business models that leading social enterprises seem to fall into, discussing the challenges and opportunities of each for mainstre...Starting at €8.20
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Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8019BC-EEntrepreneurshipIn this chapter, the authors study four clusters of entrepreneurs whose technological ventures will improve the future for a growing proportion of the burgeoning human population. This chapter is excerpted from "The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World"Starting at €8.20
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Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8027BC-EEntrepreneurshipThis chapter explores some of the more interesting trends in resource mobilization for social and environmental ventures, spotlighting various entrepreneurs and their experience and lessons learned. This chapter is excerpted from "The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World"Starting at €8.20
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Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8029BC-EEntrepreneurshipThe authors argue that during periods of extraordinary volatility, disruption, and change, the best place to look for clues to tomorrow's revolutionary business models is at the fringes of the current dysfunctional system. In this chapter, readers meet a new generation of social and environmental entrepreneurs-"unreasonable" people who are pioneering future markets where most would see nightmarish risks. This chapter is excerpted from "The Power...Starting at €8.20
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Lessons for Tomorrow's Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8016BC-EEntrepreneurshipIt takes courage to attempt the apparently impossible, but great innovators and entrepreneurs have embraced such challenges. In this chapter, the authors offer some guidance on what others can do to help support the work of social and environmental entrepreneurs and other change makers and provide some important takeaways for tomorrow's leaders. This chapter is excerpted from "The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Mar...Starting at €8.20
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Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8015BC-EEntrepreneurshipThis chapter provides a brief examination of where social entrepreneurs (gathered from the Schwab Foundation's worldwide list) are located around the world and why they cluster in particular countries and regions. This chapter is excerpted from "The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World"Starting at €8.20
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Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8018BC-EEntrepreneurshipIn addition to science and technology, today's social entrepreneurs are exploring new approaches to governance, property rights, and market transformations. In this chapter, the authors look at some of the ways in which these entrepreneurs are working to change the system and suggest that mainstream companies that follow their lead have an opportunity to shape future market rules and get a jump on competitors. This chapter is excerpted from "The...Starting at €8.20
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Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8026BC-EEntrepreneurshipIn this chapter, the authors look at the ten great divides between the fortunate and the not-so-fortunate to emerge from the UN's Millennium Development Goals-including demographics, finance, health and the environment-as pointers to tomorrow's market opportunities. They outline the relevant challenges of each divide and sketch some of the ways that social and environmental entrepreneurs are working to address them. This chapter is excerpted fro...Starting at €8.20
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Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8020BC-EEntrepreneurshipThis chapter examines how social entrepreneurs are partnering with the poor, helping empower growing numbers of bonsai (or BOP-bottom of the pyramid) consumers. The authors insist that these entrepreneurial projects are not alternatives to public and private sector action, but early indicators of the seismic market developments that are soon to come. This chapter is excerpted from "The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Creat...Starting at €8.20
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Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change
Elkington, John; Hartigan, PamelaBook Chapter HBS-8017BC-EEntrepreneurshipIn order to tackle the great challenges of achieving sustainable development, we need to learn how to scale and replicate the more sustainable solutions and mobilize collective effort in ways rarely seen outside of wars and space races. This chapter sounds the alarm for companies to plug into the ideas and actions of social and environmental entrepreneurs as they start to develop their own scale-up plans. This chapter is excerpted from "The Powe...Starting at €8.20