By Professor Dennis R. Shaughnessy If you’ll allow me the liberty of stepping out of the social enterprise space and into the social justice arena with this issue… The controversy over resettling Syrian refugees and admitting immigrants from certain countries into the US brings to mind for me the story Read more…
By Kayla O’Neill We were delighted to learn last month that Northeastern University journalism major Aneri Pattani is the 2017 winner of the New York Times‘ Win a Trip Contest with Nicholas Kristof. She will accompany Nick Kristof on an all-expenses-paid trip, likely to Liberia, this June. Pattani’s winning essay spoke Read more…
By Cayman Macdonald Exciting news from our partner institution in South Africa, the Tertiary School in Business Administration (TSiBA): a top scholar graduating this year, Tinashe Munyuki, has been awarded the prestigious Mandela Rhodes Scholarship for postgraduate study. Competing against more than 8,000 applicants from more than 20 countries in Africa, Tinashe Read more…
By Joanna Moore In countless movies, TV shows, and books, urban youth are told that education is their ticket out of poverty, and their ticket out of the neighborhood where they grew up. It’s true in the movies, and it’s true in reality. Only about half of inner city youth Read more…
From the Founder & Executive Director: “The Business of America is Business!” As We Kick-Off a New “Pro-Business” Presidency By Professor Dennis R. Shaughnessy “The business of America is business!” This often repeated phrase was reported to be first said by President Calvin Coolidge, in a January 1925 speech to newspaper Read more…
By Neel Desai As the semester comes to an end, SEI is hard at work preparing for its hallmark dialogue of civilization programs. I’m incredibly excited to be TA’ing the Social Enterprise in India Dialogue during Summer 1. I have a deep interest in leveraging technology for social impact, as Read more…