Business schools are responding to a surge in demand for education that equips students to become social entrepreneurs. But the structure of those organisations that are “doing good” is changing rapidly and these changes have implications not only for schools’ positions in rankings tables but also for how students will fund their business education.
“In the 1980s there was almost no talk at all in business schools about anything that we might now call social entrepreneurship,” says Peter Tufano, dean of Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
“Over the last 30 years I think I’ve seen a marked shift. It has come in waves. I think we’ve seen an explosive growth in demand for social entrepreneurship in the last 10 years,” he adds.