Scaling Your Social Venture: Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur

Provides practicing social entrepreneurs, whether nonprofit or for-profit, with a guiding framework and practical recommendations for scaling. It is filled with ideas and examples to make it easier for practitioners to make major strides in resolving serious social problems involving, poverty, health, education, and the environment.

Author: P. Bloom
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/30/2012
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.53h x 6.33w x 0.91d
ISBN: 9780230377288

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2013

About the Author
Paul N. Bloom is adjunct professor of social entrepreneurship and marketing with the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He was faculty director of CASE from 2007 to 2012. Dr. Bloom is the author or coauthor of more than 100 published articles, papers, book chapters, and books, including The Handbook of Marketing and Society and Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking. He was recently named the 2010-2011 winner of the American Marketing Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for the Marketing and Society Special Interest Group, becoming only the third recipient of this honor. He holds a PhD in marketing from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University, an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS from Lehigh University. He previously served as a marketing professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Maryland at College Park.