January 14, 2012
via Harvard Business Reviewby Antony Bugg-levine, Bruce Kogut, Nalin Kulatilaka
The article discusses how unbundling societal benefits and financial returns can increase investment in social enterprise.
From original article:
"The lack of funding opportunities is one of the major disadvantages social enterprises face. A conventional business can use its balance sheet and business plan to offer different combinations of risk and return to many different types of investors: equity investors, banks, bond funds, venture capitalists, and so on. Not so for many social enterprises-but that is changing. An increasing number of social entrepreneurs and investors are coming to realize that social enterprises of all sorts can also generate financial returns that will make them attractive to the right investors. This realization will dramatically increase the amount of capital available to these organizations."