Nicholas Kristof has an inspiring column on the rise of social entrepreneurship in this past weekend’s New York times. He cites, among others, current Harvard Business School student Andrew Klaber, founder of Orphans Against Aids, as an example of a generational shift towards applying entrepreneurial solutions to global problems…

“Today the most remarkable young people are the social entrepreneurs, those who see a problem in society and roll up their sleeves to address it in new ways. Bill Drayton, the chief executive of an organization called Ashoka that supports social entrepreneurs, likes to say that such people neither hand out fish nor teach people to fish; their aim is to revolutionize the fishing industry. If that sounds insanely ambitious, it is. John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan title their new book on social entrepreneurs “The Power of Unreasonable People.”

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