Social Entrepreneurship

Businesses aim to create value: while traditional businesses prioritize monetary value, social enterprises balance profit with generating a positive change in society. The Social Entrepreneurship Series offers insight into the role of social entrepreneurship in business and society. Each month, we hold themed interactive lectures and panel discussions centered around social innovation principles, their underlying business models and highlight social impact career paths. Join us, industry experts, and successful social entrepreneurs as we answer questions like:
Why do we need social businesses?
What business models make social enterprises sustainable?
What career options exist in social innovation?
How can you start your own social entrepreneurship journey?

Initiative Overview

The Social Entrepreneurship Initiative by the Harvard GSAS Business Club is a platform to engage business as a vehicle for social change. We are committed to creating space for both theoretical knowledge and practical application of social entrepreneurship locally and globally.

This year, we bring to you a year-long thinkshop series titled The Journey of A Social Entrepreneur. As the name suggests, the thinkshop covers the lifespan of a social entrepreneur: from making the plunge to be a social entrepreneur to the various unique milestones and hurdles social entrepreneurs are likely to face. We will follow you from beginning to the depths of this work through both theory and application, including live case studies of experienced social entrepreneurs.

We strongly encourage you to sign up for the sessions that interest you the most so you have a chance to interact with the entrepreneurship expert. If you are unable to make it, all the recordings will be posted on this site.

Ours is the right thinkshop for you if: