Gregory Dees ( English J. Gregory Dees , English Greg Dees ; 1950 - December 20, 2013 , Durham , North Carolina , USA ) - American scientist , professor , founder and director of the Center for Social Entrepreneurship Development (CASE) of Duke University [1 ] [2] [3] [4] .
| Gregory Deese | |
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| J. Gregory Dees | |
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| Date of Birth | 1950 |
| Date of death | December 20, 2013 |
| Place of death | Durham |
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| Occupation | scientist |
Gregory Deese was the first to introduce social entrepreneurship as a profession and an academic discipline in the late 1990s [5] [2] [1] .
Gregory Dees is the author of two books ( Eng. Enterprising Nonprofits and Eng. Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs ), about 60 scientific articles, many studies and methodological developments which showed how the practice of entrepreneurship and innovation can be combined with the solution of social problems to combat poverty, environmental pollution and others [1] [2] [4] .
In addition to his academic activities, Diz served on the supervisory boards of The Bridgespan Group, Inc. as well as other organizations; presided over the social innovation section of the World Economic Forum ; served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Journal; worked at the Kauffman Foundation [3] [1] .
Biography
Gregory Deese was born in 1950 [1] .
Diz graduated from undergraduate studies at the University of Cincinnati , a master’s degree from Yale, and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University [1] [2] [4] .
After graduating, he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company [1] [3] .
Diz began his academic career at the Yale School of Management , and later began teaching at Harvard Business School, where he took the initiative to create a course on entrepreneurship in the social sphere [1] [3] .
In 1995, he was awarded the Harvard's Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching [1] [3] .
After some time spent on developing entrepreneurship, he returned to academic activity at the Stanford Graduate School of Business , where he developed a bachelor's, master's and business courses program and helped with the opening of the Stanford Center for Social Innovation [1] .
In 1998, he published an article entitled The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship [2] [4] .
In 2001, Diz started working at the Fukua School of Business [3] [1] .
Greg Deese and Beth Battle Anderson have created the Center for Social Entrepreneurship Development (CASE) at Duke University [1] .
In 2007, the Aspen Institute and the Ashoka Foundation awarded Gregory Diz for achievements in social entrepreneurship [1] [4] .
In 2012, the US Agency for International Development awarded the Center for the Development of Social Entrepreneurship and allocated a grant for its development in the amount of 10 million US dollars [1] .
Gregory Deese died at the age of 63 on December 20, 2013 at Duke University Hospital [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 David Jarmul. Greg Dees, a Pioneer of Social Entrepreneurship, Dies at Age 63 . Duke Today (December 21, 2013). Date of treatment April 22, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Gregory Dees: The Man Who Defined Social Entrepreneurship (English) . Bloomberg (January 8, 2014). Date of treatment April 22, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 J. Gregory Dees . Bloomberg. Date of treatment April 29, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Remembering Greg Dees . Stanford Social Innovation Review (January 9, 2014). Date of treatment April 22, 2015.
- ↑ Jill Kickal, Thomas Lyons. Social Entrepreneurship: Mission - Making the World Better = Understanding Enterpreneurship. The Relentless Pursuit of Mission in an Ever Changing World. - M .: Alpina Publisher , 2014 .-- 304 p. - ISBN 978-5-9614-4458-2 .