Green Options » volans ventures http://greenoptions.com/tag/volans-ventures Posts tagged 'volans ventures' Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:25:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Social Entrepreneurs: How to Change the World Through Business http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/11/21/social-entrepreneurs-how-to-change-the-world-through-business/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/11/21/social-entrepreneurs-how-to-change-the-world-through-business/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:25:05 +0000 Leah Edwards http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/11/21/social-entrepreneurs-how-to-change-the-world-through-business/ Social EntrepreneursI love to read, but am lucky if I have time to finish even one book a month. Fortunately, I can “cheat” and listen to author interviews on the radio or via podcasts, and I just listened to an engaging interview with Pamela Hartigan, the founding partner of the yet-to-be-launched Volans Ventures and the founding director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, about her new book titled The Power Of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World.

The podcast is part of Stanford Social Innovation Review’s “Design for Change” Stanford Social Innovation Reviewseries, and I recommend that you listen to it.

But if even that shortcut is too much for you, I’ll give you a couple of highlights.

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