Social Enterprise article in The New York Times: Yes you DID get it wrong

Ethical Business

On JustMeans, and interesting article analysed a New York Times Op-ed piece about Social Enterprises.

The original article was called: What Exactly Is a Social Entrepreneur?
And the JustMeans analysis: New York Times Op-ed Piece Misses the Point of Social Enterprise

Bottom line: NYT claims that just because social business, and the entrepreneurs behind them, aren’t skimming the world’s riches into their own pockets exclusively – or those of their self-centered share holders – they cannot, hence, be entrepreneurs to start with. Hmmmm. Something is rotten at the root of this argument. What has entrepreneurship, and hence innovative ideas, have to do with getting spoiledly rich on other people’s back? Nothing? Well, you see …