Getting Beyond Better
A review of

Getting Beyond Better

How Social Entrepreneurship Works

Roger L. Martin and Sally R. Osberg • Harvard Business Review Press • 2015
Debater

Social Entrepreneurship

by David Meyer

Academician Roger L. Martin and executive Sally R. Osberg provide powerful examples of individuals who helped entire communities through social entrepreneurship.

When social entrepreneurs recognize a problem that oppresses and marginalizes people, they try to change the system that is giving rise to the problem. Academician Roger L. Martin and executive Sally R. Osberg provide pointers for successful social entrepreneurship and offer a compelling analysis of why and how it can work.

Direct Action

Social service providers act to ameliorate bad conditions, but they don’t fundamentally change systems. For example, they create food banks that feed hungry families, but they can’t change the circumstances that are forcing those families to need a food bank.

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