Robert Jensen 

Department Chair and David B. Ford Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy; Director, Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business

Wharton School of Business Economics and Public Policy Department 

University of Pennsylvania 

In addition to international cooperation and development activities and charity, entrepreneurial initiatives and operations seem to be promising ways of meeting the challenges of today’s world and of creating and fostering development. Social entrepreneurial activities possess the potential to enhance this impact even more by melding the economic rationale and the ethical perspective into sustainable solutions for current global issues. But how do we understand “development”? What does “social entrepreneurship” mean? What is the difference between the corporate contribution and social entrepreneurship’s contribution to development? And how do development and social entrepreneurship interact? After a clarification of these concepts and their interplay, social entrepreneurship will be discussed from an ethical perspective as the key to development.

The Comparative Politics Workshop is a student-led space for participants to present their work and receive useful feedback from other graduate students, faculty members, and Kellogg fellows.