Entrepreneurship

An entrepreneur is a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of profit.
An entrepreneur:

• Sees an opportunity.
• Makes a plan.
• Starts the business.
• Manages the business.
• Receives the profits.

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides unparalleled platforms at the regional and global level to highlight and advance leading models of sustainable social innovation. It identifies a select community of social entrepreneurs and engages it in shaping global, regional and industry agendas that improve the state of the world in close collaboration with the other stakeholders of the World Economic Forum.

Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. Here, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish -- as kids and as adults. 

Social Entrepreneur Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy — one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big things, even when money is scarce.