July 5, 2008
Saturday

     

Charles Handy: The New Philanthropists

Date: 01-29-2008
Type: audio
Categories: Community Development / CSR - General
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Organization:
Stanford Graduate School of Business
In Britain, something is happening that hasn't happened for 100 years. More people are becoming incredibly wealthy, not only through inheritance, but also because of their own hard work. A phenomenon on this scale has not happened since the Victorian industrialists. Charles Handy tells us about social entrepreneurs who put their energies into meeting some perceived social need -- something that government never gets around to and that private enterprise typically doesn't see a market for.