
Here are the books, periodicals, blogs, websites, and organizations I’ve come across in exploring the field of social enterprise. This is by no means a comprehensive list (although, so far as I can tell, it’s longer than any other I’ve found). And I haven’t read everything here or engaged with all the websites or organizations in the list — though I’m working on it.
I’ve boldfaced those items with which I am personally familiar and recommend as good sources of information and insight about social entrepreneurship.
BOOKS
Bryan Bell, Editor, Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service Through Architecture (2004)
David Bornstein, How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition (2007)
—, The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank (1997, 2005)
— and Susan Davis, Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010)
Ben Cohen and Mal Warwick, Values-Driven Business: How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have Fun (2006)
Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven, Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day (2009)
Jim Collins, Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (2005)
Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant, Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, 2nd Edition (2008, 2012)
J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, and Peter Economy, Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs: Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit (2002)
Cheryl L. Dorsey and Lara Galinsky, Be Bold (2006)
John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan, The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World (2008)
Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, Reverse Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (2012)
Adam Hochschild, Bury The Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (2006)
Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (2003)
Paul Charles Light, The Search for Social Entrepreneurship (2008)
Kevin Lynch and Julius Walls, Jr., Mission, Inc.: The Practitioner’s Guide to Social Enterprise (2008)
Johanna Mair, Jeffrey Robinson, and Kai Hockerts, Social Entrepreneurship (2006)
Pavithra Mehta, Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World’s Greatest Business Case for Compassion, (2011)
Alex Nicholls, Editor, Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change (2006)
Jacqueline Novogratz, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World (2009)
Paul Polak, Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail (2009)
C. K. Prahalad, Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, Revised and Updated (2004, 2009)
Beverly Schwartz, Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World (2012)
Rupert Scofield, The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook: How to Start, Build, and Run a Business That Improves the World (2011)
Social Enterprise Alliance, Succeeding at Social Enterprise: Hard-Won Lessons for Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs (2010)
Jane C. Wei-Skillern, James E. Austin, Herman B. Leonard, and Howard H. Stevenson, Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector (2007)
Wilford Welch, Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World (2008)
Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (2008)
PERIODICALS
Stanford Social Innovation Review (Stanford University)
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (MIT)
BLOGS
Evan Carmichael’s Top 30 Social Entrepreneurship Blogs to Watch in 2012
WEBSITES
World Resource Institute’s NextBillion.net, http://nextbillion.net/
CSRWire, http://www.csrwire.com/
Alltop’s Social Entrepreneurship Coverage, http://social-entrepreneurship.alltop.com/
Catalyst Fund’s Social Business blog, http://www.clearlyso.com/
Dowser.org, http://dowser.org/
E-180’s Top 25 Social Entrepreneurship Websites, http://blog.e-180.com/en/2009/02/our-top-25-social-entrepreneurship-websites/
ORGANIZATIONS
Institute for Social Entrepreneurs, http://www.socialent.org/
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, http://www.ashoka.org/
Echoing Green, http://www.echoinggreen.org/
Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship (Oxford University), http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/skoll/Pages/default.aspx
Social Venture Network, http://svn.org/
Social Enterprise Alliance, https://www.se-alliance.org/
Net Impact, http://netimpact.org/
University Network for Social Entrepreneurship, http://bit.ly/KwqWgz
BUSINESS SCHOOLS
Bainbridge Graduate Institute, http://www.bgi.edu/
Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, http://responsiblebusiness.haas.berkeley.edu/
Center for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/
Presidio School of Management, http://www.presidioedu.org/
Babson College, MBA in Entrepreneurship, http://www.babson.edu/graduate/Pages/landing-graduate.aspx?gclid=CPm_1YL37rACFUQaQgodizXjug
Marlboro College Graduate School, MBA in Sustainability, https://gradschool.marlboro.edu/academics/mba/
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/student_resources/academics/concentrations/social_entrepreneurship/
Also see Aspen Institute rating of top 30 SUStainable MBA programs, http://www.topmba.com/mba-rankings/sustainability-mba
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Mal, thanks for this wonderful compilation of SE resources…..just wanted to add another program to your list
http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/student_resources/academics/concentrations/social_entrepreneurship/
Thank. I’ll be happy to add Duke.