October 7, 2011

Great soul Gandhi: activist or entrepreneur?

On the 142nd anniversary of the birth of Gandhi, Kavita Ramdas honors the social activist and great humanitarian by reflecting on the true definition of social entrepreneurship. In a piece for the "Huffington Post," Ramdas the newly appointed executive director of the Program on Social Entrepreneurship at CDDRL, wonders why a distinction is so clearly made between social activists and entrepreneurs. With such an emphasis placed on the entrepreneur's ability to generate new products, Ramdas argues that this new model underestimates the power of social movements and collective action to transform history.

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