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By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson Traditional sector boundaries are breaking down as societies search for more innovative, cost-effective, and sustainable ways to solve social problems and provide socially important goods, such as education and health care. One …

By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson This presentation provides guidance for addressing the challenge of “scaling out” – spreading social sector innovations into new geographic locations in order to achieve greater impact.  In addition to offering a four-stage …

By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson In December 2000, New Schools Venture Fund was debating the role it should play in helping one of its for-profit investees, LearnNow, attract new capital. A $20 million venture philanthropy fund, New …

By J. Gregory Dees and Beth Battle Anderson Supplements the (A) case. Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business Harvard Business Publishing, Prod # SI7B-PDF-ENG, 2001 http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam;jsessionid=795080605C6D2E8437D77DEF2B4151CE?R=SI7B-PDF-ENG&conversationId=772906

By Gregory J Dees For new MBAs interested in pursuing nontraditional business careers, the social sector provides a promising and challenging alternative. For the majority of MBAs, it is more likely that they will serve the social sector on a …

By Gregory J Dees This note identifies six dimensions that are useful for understanding the differences between private social-purpose organizations (nonprofit and for-profit) and traditional business firms. It also discusses the role of social enterprise in society and trends creating …