{"id":359,"date":"2016-03-17T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/?p=359"},"modified":"2016-03-17T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T11:27:30","slug":"anatomy-of-a-social-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/2016\/03\/17\/anatomy-of-a-social-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Social Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a <strong>social conscience<\/strong>? And economic intuition? And you thought several times that it would be really cool to combine both \u2026 well, <strong>probably you should seriously consider becoming a social entrepreneur<\/strong>. \u00a0See the anatomy below, does it fit to you? If so,\u00a0the moment of a\u00a0<strong><em>radical<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0change in your life has arrived!!!<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/files\/2014\/05\/anatomy-social-entreprenuer-x1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-360 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/files\/2014\/05\/anatomy-social-entreprenuer-x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Anatomy of a Social Entrepreneur\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/files\/2014\/05\/anatomy-social-entreprenuer-x1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/files\/2014\/05\/anatomy-social-entreprenuer-x1000-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/files\/2014\/05\/anatomy-social-entreprenuer-x1000-995x1024.jpg 995w, https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/files\/2014\/05\/anatomy-social-entreprenuer-x1000-624x642.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Economic Intelligence<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>They are able to foresee <strong>new opportunities associated with a social problem<\/strong>, such as finding work for disadvantaged people, empowering people in need, fighting systemic poverty and organized crime, <strong>and to create new, financially sustainable businesses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Socially Motivated<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Their main objective, and motivational driver, is <strong>addressing social issues through market-based solutions<\/strong>. <strong>People<\/strong> and their fundamental needs <strong>are at center stage<\/strong>, while money and profits are just a means to achieving what really matters: improving people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Courage<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Social entrepreneurship means dealing with complex, turbulent and uncertain environments<\/strong>. Social entrepreneurscan make very difficult decisions to overcome apparently insurmountable problems. <strong>They are often alone fighting against a whole system<\/strong>, and courage is absolutely indispensable.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Quick and Alternative<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>They see and <strong>think about things in a different way<\/strong>: reality is multi-dimensional, business is more than \u201cjust profit,\u201d perennial social problems can be business opportunities, people can be much better off than is generally thought. <strong>What matters is how you (want to) look at things<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Are you a potential Social Entrepreneur? Don&#8217;t miss the opportunity to explore our <a title=\"Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Platform IESE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iese.edu\/socialplatform\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Social Platform<\/strong><\/a>, it will facilitate the contact between members of IESE community and the support you need in your social project.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a social conscience? And economic intuition? And you thought several times that it would be really cool to combine both \u2026 well, probably you should seriously consider becoming a social entrepreneur. \u00a0See the anatomy below, does it fit to you? If so,\u00a0the moment of a\u00a0radical\u00a0change in your life has arrived!!! Economic Intelligence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1271],"tags":[91592,59097],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-entrepreneurship","tag-social-entrepreneurship","tag-social-innovation","megacategoria-mc-business-ethics-and-corporate-social-responsibility"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}