More schools are developing MBA programs for socially-minded students.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Old assumptions – in particular, that the only way for people to be “do-gooders” was through a career at a non-profit organisation – are being challenged by 21st century realities.
Thus the narrow definition of social enterprise within MBA programmes – preparing students who may always have had an interest in the non-profit sector to join or return to it with their management antennae switched on – is being subsumed into something much bigger: recognition that the chance to make the world a better place can come from many vantage points and at any time in a student’s career.
In this new world, people and organisations can make a positive social impact via all sorts of organisations in the non-profit, private and public sectors, and social responsibility has become a byword in many organisations.
