She distinguished private versus social enterprises in three ways. One, from the viewpoint of stakeholders and beneficiaries. The private enterprise has stockholders who own the capital invested while in a social enterprise, stakeholders are often a marginalized sector, community or group who may...

SEVERAL READERS REACTED TO my June 27, 2010 column. Most of them affirmed their sad state as
poor employees despite long years of dedicated service. Many asked for more advice.

There's nothing wrong with being poor, just as there's nothing wrong with being old. But when you are ol...

Professor Muhammad Yunus in the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2009 cited the seven principles of social enterprise. One, the business objective will be to overcome poverty (or problems such as education, health, technology access and environment) which threaten people and society. Two ...

Based on our experience as consultants to social enterprises and our research, we realized that social enterprises have organizational challenges more than that of the regular for profit enterprise. We have discovered 7 of them, but definitely there are much more.

One is managing comp...

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Ernie O. Cecilia
Philippine Daily Inquirer

LAST DECEMBER 14, The Philippine Daily Inquirer gave a simple thanksgiving party for its advertisers. It was organized by Jesse Francis Rebustillo, PD...