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May 2011

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This issue of Tennessee's Business is dedicated to the memory of Richard Hannah (1951-2011), professor in MTSU's Department of Economics and Finance [obituary].

 

See also: BizEd May/June
on social entrepreneurs

 

Contents

• Editor
• Hannah
• Dees
• Sloneker
• Walling
• Turner
• Jack
• Osborne
• Hallowell
• Burton

 

 

Horace E. Johns
Executive Editor

Sally Ham Govan
Publications Editor/Designer

AUBER Award of Excellence
1991, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2007

 

 

Tennessee’s Business provides an exchange of ideas in the fields of economics and business among businesspersons, academicians, and government officials. The opinions expressed in the articles are not necessarily those of the Business and Economic Research Center, the Jennings A. Jones College of Business, or Middle Tennessee State University, but are the responsibility of the individual authors. The material may be reproduced with acknowledgement of the source. MTSU, a Tennessee Board of Regents university, is an equal opportunity, nonracially identifiable, educational institution that does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Enterprise

• Editor's Note

• by Horace Johns

• Creating the opportunity for the poor to help themselves [more]

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  Rethinking the Entrepreneurial Spectrum

• by Richard Hannah (1951-2011), professor, Department of Economics and Finance, MTSU

• Entrepreneurship can have many faces. [more]

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  Social Ventures as Learning Laboratories

• by J. Gregory Dees, Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, Duke University

• What we need now is entrepreneurship that creates greater long-term value while drawing on fewer resources and generating fewer destructive consequences. [more]

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  Adventures in Fair Trade

• by Mark Sloneker, social entrepreneur, Orijyn

• Helping artisans find markets outside of Laos to preserve age-old skills and improve living standards [more]

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  Nashville-Based Online Store Helps Cambodian Women Take Greater Control of Their Lives

• by Ann Walling, retired assistant rector, St. David's Episcopal Church, Nashville
  

  The Stung Treng Women's Development Center is a model of a self-sustaining business that is lifting an entire community from the ravages of poverty. [more]

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  Social Entrepreneurship and Higher Education

• by Bernard Turner, social entrepreneurship director, Belmont University

• We need more institutions, individuals, and initiatives to respond to alleviating society's social problems. [more]

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  Good Fortune in Cleveland, Tennessee

• by Jennifer Jack, social entrepreneur, Good Fortune

• A natural soap and body-care company with a heart for creating social change [more]

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  You Can't Fish without a River

• by Guy Larry Osborne, Social Entrepreneurship & Nonprofit Studies, Carson-Newman College

• A college helps the poor help themselves through social entrepreneurship. [more]

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  A Unique Opportunity for Socially Responsible Businesses

• by Ned Hallowell, nationally renowned expert on ADD

• The enlightened manager can create a positively connected atmosphere that fosters superior performance. [more]

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  One Man's Opinion

• by Jim Burton, dean, Jones College of Business, MTSU

• Everything Old Was Once New! Was Everything New Once Old? [more]

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