People from all walks of life are developing and implementing innovative effective and sustainable solutions in response to social and environmental challenges these solutions include products services and interventions brought to market by new startups and existing organizations both for profit and non profit introduction to social entrepreneurship summarizes the basic steps and tools . Social entrepreneurship is a revolution occurring around the world today people from all walks of life are developing and implementing innovative effective and sustainable solutions in response to social and environmental challenges. Social entrepreneurs drive social innovation and transformation in various fields including education health environment and enterprise development these innovators pursue poverty alleviation goals with entrepreneurial zeal unique business models and have the courage to innovate and overcome traditional practices. Welcome to our course introduction to social entrepreneurship my name is jim thompson and im joined by my colleague professor ian macmillan professor macmillan prefers to go by the name of mac is the ambani professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at the wharton school of the university of pennsylvania mac is also the director of the sol c snider entrepreneurial research center he