Jesuits Sparked Social Innovation for the Philippines 250.0
I read The Jesuits in the Philippines, 1581-1768, (1961, Harvard) by Horacio de la Costa, S.J. over the weekend. After a year of looking for a copy in local bookstores – from John Nery’s effusive recommendation in a blog post and seeing a second-hand one for US$91.80, I finally found a copy I could afford [...]
Hapinoy Prototypes Open Innovation in the Philippines 249.0
Hapinoy and MicroVenture’s Bam Aquino and Mark Ruiz are finalists for the 2010 Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneurs of the Year Award. SYNTHESiST has featured Hapinoy’s innovative approach in re-organizing the retail (sari-sari store) trade to deliver on the triple bottom lines for social entrepreneurs – profits, sustainability and equity. Beneficiaries. Thus far, approximately 10,500 [...]
Hapinoy – Mark Ruiz Retails Sari Sari Happiness to Filipinos 228.0
“The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield,” begins Peter Drucker’s classic 1985 book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, quoting the French economist J.B. Say. Thus, Mark Ruiz and the Hapinoy/MicroVentures (MVI) team, all social entrepreneurs, are mining a rich vein for social enterprise [...]
Social Entrepreneurs are Unreasonable Revolutionists by Definition 227.0
Writing about what Filipino social entrepreneurs – like Reese Fernandez, Mark Ruiz and Jay Bernardo – actually do as innovators left me stumped and sidetracked. Thus, before posting about Mark and Jay, the inevitable a priori question must be asked: what makes a social entrepreneur tick? Stoking the Inner Fire. This question led me to [...]
