Episode 13: Bettering “Business as Usual” — Social Entrepreneurship edition
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Check the companion episode on the social economy in our series for bettering “business as usual” here.
Our guests today
Daniela Papi-Thornton is a Lecturer at Yale School of Management on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems-led Leadership. Previously, Daniela taught at Watson Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and prior to that, Daniela was the Deputy Director at Oxford Saïd Business School’s Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. There she launched educational programming designed to help incorporate systems thinking into social entrepreneurship education, including Map the System, a contest now running at 30 global universities. Her report and subsequent article, Tackling Heropreneurship, have been widely referenced, and from that research she designed a tool called the Impact Gaps Canvas, used at universities around the world. Daniela’s work in education design builds upon six years of emerging market entrepreneurial experience in Cambodia, running a hybrid social enterprise. She co-authored a book, Learning Service, released in 2018 which is focused on shifting mindsets and practices related to volunteer travel. Her TEDx talk on Reclaiming Social Entrepreneurship highlights some of her more recent thinking.
We also spoke with Ankit Kumar and Emily (Zijing) Meng at the Sustainable Business Case Competition.
Guests from our last show that made an appearance on this show Marguerite Mendell, Eric Steedman and Nadra Wagdy. Check out their details and interviews in episode 12.
Referenced material
- Check out the Seven Sins of Greenwashing
- Click here for Martin and Osberg’s research paper entitled “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition”, or listen to Sally Osberg speak about this research paper:
References from the Sustainable Business Plan Competition
Mentioned during Papi-Thornton’s Interview
- Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford
- Check USAID’s technical note on the 5 Rs Framework in the Program Cycle
- Check out Roisin Dillon’s presentation at Map the System 2018, University of Oxford:
- Tackling Heropreneurship’s Impact Gaps Canvas tool
- Read Donella Meadows’s “Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System”
- University of Oxford’s Global Challenge hosted by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the Saïd Business School
- Check out this Sierra Leone value chain research project called Mami’s Tamatis
- Check out Cultural Trauma & Resilience in the Pacific: Ho’owaiwai
- Baljeet Sandhu’s The Lived Experience
Music and sounds featured in this episode
- Greenwashers’ (2011) intro clip on Greenwashers Consulting
- Intro music “R U Well” by Best Fern
- Various Freesound elements: Harp Glissando Up.aiff (by Cunningar0807), Harp Glissando Down.aiff (by Cunningar0807), record scratch, Wall Street Gas Panic/ who were burned alive in their innocent flannel suits on Madison Avenue (The Fucked Up Beat), OldVinyl_128.aiff (by DWSD), drawing fast lines with pencil on paper (by 123jorre456), Strumstick open fret strum & pluck.wav (by mushroomjesus), Kitty In The Window by Podington Bear - (thanks for making your sounds free for non-commercial projects like ours!)
