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But there was an unofficial, existential thread running through several of the keynote speeches — namely, finding yourself through public service. Philanthropist and businessman Raymond Chambers sat with The Economist's Matthew Bishop in a couple of easy chairs at center stage (inviting, of course, hundreds of their closest entrepreneurial friends) and held an "informal" discussion about the ways Chambers has applied many of the business principles he honed in the world of private equity to create social change — specifically, the success he's realizing in his quest to reduce the number of deaths from malaria to zero by 2015.
Are You Brave Enough to Work for Social Change?
The official theme of the 2010 HBS Social Enterprise Conference, held this past weekend at Harvard Business School, was "Redefining Service for the 21st Century." But there was an unofficial, existential thread running through several of the keynote speeches — namely, finding yourself through public service.
Philanthropist and businessman Raymond Chambers sat with The Economist's Matthew Bishop in a couple of easy chairs at center stage (inviting, of course, hundreds of their closest entrepreneurial friends) and held an "informal" discussion about the ways Chambers has applied many of the business principles he honed in the world of private equity to create social change — specifically, the success he's realizing in his quest to reduce the number of deaths from malaria to zero by 2015. Chambers naturally adopted a systems approach:
Identifying critical partners such as the Gates Foundation, ...
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