Slides for my talk about three things: 1.) The state of our current economy and the opportunity to build a better economic system. 2.) What such a change can mean for you (the audience was b-school students). 3.) What social entrepreneurship and social enterprise mean and why it can make a difference.

1. The New Sustainable Economy
and You
Scott Edward Anderson
Wharton Social Impact
25 March 2010

2. Who Am I?
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3. Sustainable?

4. The Result

5. What Does It Mean for You?

6. There is Another Path

7. en · tre · pre · neur
n., 1. one who organizes,
manages, and assumes the
risks of a business or
enterprise.
Definition from Merriam-Webster

9. so · cial en · tre · pre · neur
n., 1. society’s change agent:
pioneer of innovations that
benefit humanity.
Definition: Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

11. “People said I was Crazy…”

12. Why Not the Government?

14. What if?

15. Reconciling Profit & Purpose

16. Value Creation

17. Don’t Fear Failure

18. Just Do It…

19. Questions?

20. Resources
• ashoka.org • goodcompanyventures.org
• skollfoundation.org • changemakers.net
• schwabfound.org • squidoo.com/changemakers
• acumenfund.org • ssireview.org
• socialedge.org • thegreenskeptic.com
• echoinggreen.org • gapingvoid.com (cartoons)
•David Bornstein, How to Change the World
•John Elkington & Pamela Hartigan The Power of Unreasonable People
•Gregory Dees, “The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship” (article)
•Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty
•Jaqueline Novogratz, The Blue Sweater
•Kevin Lynch & Julius Wallis, Mission, Inc: The Practitioners Guide to Social Enterprise
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21. Image Acknowledgments
• Hummer H3T: © 2009, CarGurus LLC, All rights reserved.
• Sprawl: http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/2079215/2112767/2129635/051107_arch_suburbSprawl_ex.jpg
• Capital One “Mom Said…”: http://www.jabbajoo.com/2008/09/capital-one-envelope-exterior-concept.html
• Temple MBA students: http://sbm.temple.edu/fmba/images/ad-photo.jpg
• Roger Beal cartoon: © roger beale cartoons Used by Permission
• Pierre Omidyar photo by Joy Ito: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
• Gates and Jobs (digitally altered): From brisbanetimes.com.au (no attribution)
• Oprah: photo by Alan Light: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
• Larry and Sergey photo: Associated Press / Noah Berger
• Dr. Victoria Hale photo: One World Health
• Majora Carter photo: CNN
• Van Jones: Photo Courtesy of vanjones.net; Photo by Richard Hume, Courtesy of Experience Life magazine
• Anshu Gupta photo courtesy of Anshu Gupta/Goonj
• Muhammad Yunus: Copyright © Scanpix 2006, Photo: Mark Earthy
• Paulson and Bernanke: Attribution unknown
• Disruption slide courtesy Fred Wilson
• Charles Best: photo c) C Mulvany, Used by Permission
• GoodCompany Ventures photos courtesy GoodCompany Ventures
• GreenSkeptic, Fred Wilson, Jacob Gray, Roger Ehrenberg, Jacqueline Novogratz @ GreenSpaces for GCV
“Unpanel”
• Video Games photo courtesy Fred Wilson
• Sisyphus photo: attribution unknown
• Calvin courtesy of the author