Kyle Zimmer, President and Chief Executive Officer, First Book and Kristine Pearson, Founder and CEO, Lifeline Energy, discuss the real power of social entrepreneurs, but as it enters its fourth decade, "the field of social entrepreneurship is at a crossroads."
Zimmer and Pearson provide insight on the market failures in the social sector. They recommend to examine the field and identify the challenges that hold back social entrepreneurs, then develop and implement solutions to propel collective work forward.
The authors also share six of the many obstacles hindering progress in the social sector.
These include:
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.