{"id":139,"date":"2011-11-15T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T06:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/?p=139"},"modified":"2011-12-12T18:31:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T01:31:21","slug":"139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/2011\/11\/15\/139\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Outfit isn’t the Only thing that Needs a Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first got into business school, I thought I was going to learn all about making money. I came here thinking that lectures were to teach me how to compete and survive in the tough business world. Yet slowly, I\u2019ve come to realize that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n

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Lauren Bush launched the Feed Project to fight world hunger<\/p><\/div>\n

After I read articles on fashion entrepreneurship in Rwanda, Africa<\/a> and on Lauren Bush<\/a>, niece of former President George Bush, who is also a fashion model turned social entrepreneur, I understood real life examples of social entrepreneurship and reinforced the knowledge I learnt in class.<\/p>\n

As I read the articles, I had an epiphany. The goal of business isn\u2019t to make the most money, or to defeat competition, those are by-products of a successful business<\/span>. A successful business should aim to positively impact its surroundings (including people inside and outside the company), and that is exactly what social entrepreneurship is about. Social entrepreneurship focuses on the well-being of others while sustaining a company like a traditional business would. The question is: What do you want to change?<\/span> I don\u2019t go to business class to learn how to make money; I go to business class to learn how to make a difference<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first got into business school, I thought I was going to learn all about making money. I came here thinking that lectures were to teach me how to compete and survive in the tough business world. Yet slowly, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/claudialau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}