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The Billionaire Boys Club

In her book last year, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System”, Diane Ravitch dismissively described the wealthy philanthropists who are bankrolling various efforts to improve the otherwise taxpayer funded school system as the “billionaire boys club”. She argues that the likes of Bill Gates, the Walton family (heirs of the founder […]

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Three Cheers for Harvard

As one of the many celebrations of its 100th birthday, the Harvard Business School hosted a summit in New York on social entrepreneurship. HBS has played an important role in the rise of social entrepreneurship, and indeed in the emergence of philanthrocapitalism – and many of its professors were there to share their insights from […]