Christmas Presents from Social Enterprises?

Still looking for a last minute gift? Social Enterprise UK has collected a number of social enterprise examples that offer Christmas presents with a social edge.

Go and check it out here:

http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/happy-christmas

CBS ranked in Top10 worldwide on Social Impact research

At CBS we are  happy to share a bit of self promotion. In the latest Aspen Institute's survey of global MBA programs CBS has been found to be world class when it comes to Social Impact research (just next to UC Berkeley and Columbia Business School two of the original Social Entrepreneurship schools). 

Read more about the Aspen rankings:

http://www.beyondgreypinstripes.org/ranking/top-10-list

Read more about social impact research at CBS:http://www.cbs.dk/cbsCSR

Lessons to be learned from ShoreBank's failure

This August one of the leaders in social enterprise funding had to close its doors. For 37 years ShoreBank Corporation has engaged in community development funding in the U.S. The Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) has now published an analysis of ShoreBank's failure.

Read more:
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/too_good_to_fail

And the winner is...

In last week's class our team of judges have selected the winner of this year's business plan writing class. The winning business plan was written by a team of students around Mikkel Kinnerup the co-founder of Tangerine District. In their submission the student team has developed a plan for providing the Tangerine District Software to Nigerian SMEs.

Read more about Tangerine here: http://www.tangerinedistrict.com/