Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship(CASE)-The Fuqua School of Business-Duke University
Research
For Profit Social Ventures
by Jane Gravenstine Brown, Fuqua MBA 1997
We live in an age in which boundaries between government, nonprofit and business sectors are blurring. This boundary blurring has led to a new breed of social entrepreneurs creating for-profit organizations explicitly to serve social purposes. Can these innovators “do good” and “do well”? CASE Faculty Director Greg Dees and Managing Director Beth Anderson recently published a paper to help would-be for profit social entrepreneurs address some of the challenges of using a for-profit organization to serve a social objective. It appeared in the "Social Entrepreneurship" special issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education. Below, Anderson discusses some of the issues addressed in the article.
Brown: What is a For-Profit Social Venture (FPSV) and can you give some examples?
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