Bill Drayton on Harvard Business Ideacast

Published June 29, 2009 @ 08:25PM PT

Ashoka's Digital Strategist and all around great guy Tom Dawkins alerted me to this interview with Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton on Harvard Business Ideacast.

It's a great interview, particular for people who are just starting to learn about this world. One of the things I like about it is that it discusses how groups like Ashoka are working to build the infrastructure to support social innovators and entrepreneurs. That emphasis on getting the plumping right is something that I think is immensely important and valuable.

Another important part of the conversation is Drayton's argument that it was in some ways an accident of particular historical conditions that the creation of social value diverged from the creation of economic value, and that we're in a point in history now where the citizen sector has matured enough that socially-focused entrepreneurs can achieve the same sort of productivity levels as their business sector counterparts.

All in all, a must listen.

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Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.