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Career Kickoff

Are you a social entrepreneur? With Professor Michael Gordon

Michael Gordon

Stephen M. Ross School of Business

In this video, Professor Michael Gordon explains what a social entrepreneur is and if it's the right fit for you. Learn more about social entrepreneurship in the "Becoming a Social Entrepreneur: Getting Started" course.

Transcript

0:01 let me ask a question are you a social 0:02 entrepreneur and let me put this in 0:04 perspective 0:05 i know at least i'm very confident when 0:08 you were in first grade second grade 0:10 and someone asked you what you wanted to 0:12 be you might have said something like a 0:14 cowboy an 0:15 astronaut a baseball player a dancer 0:18 maybe a doctor maybe a lawyer 0:21 i'm almost certain you didn't say you 0:23 wanted to become a social entrepreneur 0:26 because it's just not something that 0:28 people aspire to 0:30 but a lot of people are change makers 0:33 they see a problem they want to take it 0:36 on 0:37 and this course is really for them it's 0:39 for you 0:41 if you want to become more effective in 0:43 taking on the problems of the day 0:46 there are many different paths to 0:48 becoming a social entrepreneur 0:50 so in this course you'll see how 11 0:52 different people follow different paths 0:54 and no path was similar people in 0:57 different parts of the world chose 0:59 different paths 1:00 different problems and different paths 1:02 and even people solving the same problem 1:04 would have different journeys based on 1:05 their own life experience 1:08 so are you a social entrepreneur let's 1:11 find out