Social Entrepreneurship: A Rising Generation Changing the World
Gordon Bloom, Dean’s Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship in the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education gave a lecture titled “Social Entrepreneurship: A Rising Generation Changing the World” on Thursday, November 19 at 4:30 p.m. at the new Carl A. Fields Center. Select students from Professor Bloom’s class, A Collaboratory for Social Entrepreneurship (SE Lab), also presented their entrepreneurial endeavors during the lecture. See pages 6-7 in the November 9, 2009 issue of the Princeton University Bulletin for more details about Professor Bloom and the SE Lab. Click here to see a video of the talk.
Inaugurated in 2007–08, and made possible by the generous support of several Princeton alumni, the Dean’s Visiting Professorship in Entrepreneurship is a key element of Princeton’s broadening scope of entrepreneurship education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The goal of this position is to bring a unique and creative educational experience to both undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines. Candidates are selected according to their scholarship and teaching ability, and their track record of innovations and innovative teaching methods as applied to entrepreneurship.
About Gordon Bloom
Gordon Bloom is founder of the Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Lab) at Stanford & Harvard Universities and is the Dean’s Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship for 2009-2010. He teaches about the design, creation and development of innovative social change organizations. The SE Lab is a Silicon Valley and technology–influenced social venture incubator, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to global problem solving. It was launched at Stanford in 2001-2002, while Gordon taught on Stanford’s Public Policy Program faculty, and served as a faculty affiliate at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Program Officer at Stanford’s Institute for International Studies. At Harvard, Gordon has taught on the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) faculty in the Leadership and Management Group, and as a principal of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and as a faculty advisor and affiliate of the Center for Public Leadership, where in 2005 he was one of the founding faculty of the $10M Harvard Reynolds Foundation Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship. Many of the talented students & fellows in his Harvard and Stanford SE Labs have won the top awards of prestigious idea and business plan competitions, including those at Stanford, Harvard, and MIT.