Social Entrepreneurship: Speakers

Initiation Brainstorms #6: Social Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship day@Clube ENOVA
NOVA, Lisbon - 8 June 2024
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Filipe Santos
Portugal
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
Academic Director, INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Initiative
Director, Rudolf and Valeria Maag International Centre for Entrepreneurship (Maag ICE)

Filipe Santos is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. He is the director for the Maag International Centre for Entrepreneurship and the academic director of the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. His research lies at the intersection of strategy, organization theory, and entrepreneurship. His current focus is the field of social entrepreneurship and social innovation. He is particularly interested in understanding the processes through which entrepreneurs construct new firms and markets. He is also interested in the growth and scaling up processes of new ventures in order to maximize economic and social impact. A related focus of research is on business model innovation. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technology Policy and Management, as well as several book chapters. Professor Santos teaches courses on entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship in the INSEAD MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programmes. He regularly speaks on topics of entrepreneurship and innovation from both a commercial and a social perspective. He also mentors entrepreneurs and advises venture investors.

A native of Portugal, Professor Santos holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, with a focus on entrepreneurship. He also holds an MSc. Degree in Industrial Strategy and Management from Lisbon Technical University, and an Economics degree from Lisbon New University. He was the recipient of the Lieberman Fellowship at Stanford University, an award recognizing outstanding scholarship and institutional contributions. He also received in 1996 the award for best MSc. student. His doctoral thesis “Constructing Markets and Shaping Boundaries: Entrepreneurial Action in Nascent Markets” was finalist for the Heizer 2004 Entrepreneurship Award. He received an Honourable Mention for Best Paper at the 2006 Strategic Management Society Conference and the 2008 IDEA award for Research Promise from the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division. He also won the 2008 award for Best Teacher in Elective Courses at the INSEAD GEMBA program. He was the finalist for the same award in 2009 and received the Deans’ commendation for excellence in MBA teaching in 2010.

Scott Sherman

Scott Sherman is shortly joining the Dell Social Innovation Competition as a Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation. Scott brings a very deep knowledge of social entrepreneurship and our program at UT. He also has extensive experience interacting with university administrators, faculty, and students through his Transformative Action Institute (transformativeaction.org).

Scott Sherman will address “The Science of Making the World a Better Place”: What separates the most successful social change campaigns from those that fail? Dr. Scott Sherman spent seven years researching how people win when they are trying to change the world. In this presentation, he talks about his surprising findings. Most of the traditional attempts to change the world, including politics, law, and even science, were unsuccessful. The most successful strategies looked much like the new field of social entrepreneurship. In this short presentation, Dr. Sherman will discuss why social entrepreneurship is one of the most promising ways to change the world.

Miguel Alves Martins, IES

Miguel Alves Martins is currently Executive Director at IES – Social Entrepreneurship Institute. He holds a master degree in social economy at ISCTE and a professional certificate in non-profit management from Kellogg School of Management. From INSEAD, he holds a certificate from the management acceleration program (MAP) and attended executive education in social entrepreneurship.

Miguel is an invited teaching assistant at Nova School of Business and Economics.

Heidir Correia and Maria João Santos

Associação Cultural Moinho da Juventude is a non-profit organization situated in the Cova da Moura neighbourhood, a suburb of Lisbon. The association was registered in 1987 as a community founded and guided organization.

A group of inhabitants of Cova da Moura created Moinho da Juventude, starting by providing local services and training for youngsters and adults to run and develop these services.

In December 2007, the Portuguese Parliament awarded the Association with the Human Rights Prize for the work in the neighbourhood that was developed according to the principles based on communication, empowerment, solidarity and respect for differences in politics, sexual orientation, religious and cultural belongings.

Heidir Correia is Socio-Cultural Animator of Moinho da Juventude since 2004, being in the root of Sabura Project. Now he is co-Responsible for it. He is also coordinator of the Music Studio.

Maria João Santos has a Master’s degree in Business Administration. She has working as Project Manager and management assistant to the Direction of Moinho da Juventude since March, 2010. She is co-Responsible for Sabura Project.

Bernardo Sousa de Macedo

Bernardo Sousa de Macedo, entrepreneur and social entrepreneur, was born in Lisbon and is 27 years old. He worked in marketing and communication for seven years at IGMarketing (Interactive Global Marketing) and has been CTO at Go Find, Lda since March 2011. He a is a speaker for social entrepreneurship and creator of the first online social network for social responsibility, Inpakt.com. Bernardo dropped out of high school because he was not prone to the educational paradigm and therefore he maintained high standards in whatever he did and remained open minded and highly optimistic.