Social Enterprise @ Goizueta (SE@G) is an action-oriented research center within Emory’s Goizueta Business School that combines academic research with fieldwork programs and student activities to create better markets, support stronger communities and develop next-generation social innovators. Our mission is to make markets work for more people, in more places, and in more ways.
Social Enterprise @ Goizueta
Social Enterprise @ Goizueta
The Business of Social Impact
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Relevant Study
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Curriculum in Action
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Developing Talent
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Connecting Globally
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Building Community
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Knowledge Creation
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Entrepreneurs, leaders, and managers driving social change today require a new set of business knowledge, skills, and experiences to be effective.
We develop the next generation of social innovators through both traditional coursework and experiences including Latin America travel modules, consulting projects, global feasibility studies, mentorship, social enterprise fellowships, and student clubs/activities.
Learn more about student opportunities.
Start:ME Accelerator
EmoryBusiness.com
Business acumen not the only thing delivered by program
The Start:ME program provides select business owners with know-how, mentorship support, and early-stage capital. A total of $31,500 was awarded to entrepreneurs April 9, with recipients decided by peer voting.
Social Enterprise Faculty
Professor of Organization & Management; Academic Director, Social Enterprise @ Goizueta
Social Enterprise @ Goizueta Staff
Social Enterprise @ Goizueta
Executives in Residence
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David Kyle
Social Enterprise @ GoizuetaIn 2013, Kyle founded Impact Business Leaders (IBL), which is focused on placing experienced professionals looking for a career change in full-time roles with social enterprises around the world. IBL has training centers in Salt Lake City, Accra, Ghana and Oxford, England. Prior to starting IBL, Kyle had served as the COO for the Calvert Foundation in Bethesda, Maryland since 2011. He also previously lived in Hyderabad, India for three years, where he was the Founder and CEO of the Indian School Finance Company (www.isfc.in), a for-profit finance company that provides medium-term debt capital to private schools serving very low-income families. The still-thriving ISFC was the most recent in a string of start-ups Kyle has led over the past 20 years, starting with building a Citibank subsidiary into a full-service commercial bank in Lisbon, Portugal from 1990-96; building Citibank’s first global intranet system in the late-1990s, which he did from London; and, establishing a new country organization for Save the Children in Brazil, upon leaving Citibank in 2001. As COO and Chief Investment Officer of Acumen Fund, he built local operations in East Africa, India, Pakistan and New York from 2003-07. Prior to beginning his career in social enterprise in 2001, Kyle spent 20 years in the corporate and investment bank of Citibank, working successively in Brazil, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Portugal and the UK. Since 2006, Kyle has pursued parallel teaching activities in several graduate programs in the US and abroad, starting with Columbia SIPA (2006-7); Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (2008-10); Emory University’s Goizueta MBA program (since 2011); and, at the Monterey Institute (since 2011). He went to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and has an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University. -
Sam Moss
Social Enterprise @ GoizuetaMoss is currently Senior Director of Finance at East Lake Foundation/CF Foundation and President of Impact Advisory Services, where he works with foundations and organizations on a broad range of projects, frequently around impact investment and social enterprise. Previously, at Gray Ghost Ventures, a $200 million Family Office based in Atlanta, Moss was a member of the senior team investing in microfinance and in early-stage enterprises in the developing world focused on underserved populations. He also served as Board President of Gray Matters Capital, a related operating foundation, which structured a $10 million mission-related investment portfolio and initiated and collaborated on projects in microfinance education, affordable private schools in India and promoting awareness of impact investing. Moss was the Founding Chairman of the International Association of Microfinance Investors (IAMFI) and served on the inaugural Investors Council of the Global Impact Investors Network (GIIN). He is active in social impact initiatives in Atlanta, the US and internationally. He spent more than 20 years at Wachovia Bank, where he held executive positions in International and Corporate Banking, Capital Markets and Wealth Management. Moss sits on the advisory boards of Oglethorpe University and Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE) and is the past Chairman of the Atlanta Arts Loan Fund. An active supporter of the arts and a cyclist, he is a graduate of Williams College and received a Doctor of Humane Letters from Allegheny College in 2010.