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Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private, and Public Sectors

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ISBN-10: 0071801677

ISBN-13: 9780071801676

Edition: 2013

Authors: Georgia Levenson Keohane

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An expert’s inside look into the ways social entrepreneurship is changing the worldWhether you’re a policymaker, investor, or involved in a nonprofit,Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Centurygives you the knowledge you need to make the best possible decisions for the future. A former McKinsey consultant reveals how social entrepreneurship has filtered into the workings of government and private enterprise, where social sector values are now shaping social impact capitalism.Georgia Levenson Keohaneis a Roosevelt Institute fellow, foundation executive, and former McKinsey consultant. She advises a range of poverty-fighting organizations, including philanthropies (Robin Hood Foundation),…    
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication date: 1/8/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Georgia Levenson Keohane is a Roosevelt Institute Fellow, an adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School, and a former McKinsey consultant. She writes regularly for Harvard Business Review, The Nation, Slate, and The American Prospect, while advising a range of poverty-fighting organizations. She holds a BA from Yale, an MBA from Harvard, and an MSc from the London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Social Entrepreneurship in the Nonprofit Sector
What Is Social Entrepreneurship?
Early Social Entrepreneurship: The Service Organizations
Early Social Entrepreneurship: The Funders
New Philanthropy and the Value of Evaluation
Technology as a Force for Good
The Pull of Prizes
Activist Assets
From Entrepreneurship to Enterprise
Social Impact in the Private Sector
The Investor Perspective: Impact Investing
International Impact Investing
Case Study: The Microcredit Story
Impact Investing in the United States
The Enterprise Perspective: Shared Value Capitalism
Social Innovation in the Public Sector
The Case of New York City: Social Innovation the Bloomberg Way
The Obama Administration in Theory: Social Innovation Goes to Washington
The Obama Administration in Practice: Unleashing the Innovation Mojo
Shaping Markets: Social Impact Bonds Abound
Room for Debate
Social Entrepreneurship Revisited
New Views on Philanthropy and Government
Commercialization and Its Discontents
Social Entrepreneurship for the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Index