In our second report from the Social Venture Institute (SVI) at Hollyhock, Elisa Birnbaum from SEE Change Magazine sat down with Joel Solomon to chat about his work, what motivates him to get up each morning and his ever-optimistic vision of the social venture...
Last year in a Boston Globe article, Bill Gates claimed that providing vaccines to developing countries was easy compared to changing the education system. Those who have taken on the Sisyphean task of education reform know that that’s true. The education system is a...
It’s now 48 hours before the final exam of the Business Statistics course at Wilfrid Laurier University. In front of me are 400 sets of eyes staring at me, waiting to hear what I have to tell them. It has taken me just under three hours to take them through the course...
In this series, SEE Change talks with society’s respected corporate citizens about their efforts to make a difference As I dip my spoon into the small glass container of honey marked “Lancaster London Hyde Park Honey,” I’m thinking about the bees. It’s hard not...
{jcomments on}Congratulations to you as an entrepreneur! Great respect is due to anyone starting a venture. A tremendous undertaking in leadership is entailed. Here are some ideas in bootstrapping that have been helpful to me, and which I hope stay with you as you...
Best of the summer to you colleagues. I’d very much like to hear your opinion on the following. I recently read that one of our social enterprise leader’s top 10 suggestions was to hire people for mission passion as the leading motivator. I believe the...
