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This essay describes the challenges of Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation as a field and explores how it could contribute to transforming business education. The first suggestion is to think about System Change as a much needed shift in perspective away from focusing on the lone individual hero entrepreneur. Current problems often defy the market based approach to entrepreneurship and requires collaborations across sectors and silos. Another shift is to focus more on whole person learning and bringing the lived experience of students as changemakers in the classroom. That would possibly require a different approach to admissions into university programs, expanding the criteria for successful candidates. A final contribution could be a focus on "inner work" ensuring that changemaking work does not deplete and lead to burn out.
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Milligan, K. Essay: How Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Can Transform Business Education. Humanist Manag J 4, 265–268 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41463-019-00075-5
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