Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. She is also the Director of the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network which hosts an annual, week long celebration for the entire campus, and the co-Director of the Mayfield Fellows Program, an elite work/study program for a dozen top engineering students. Tina teaches a course in the School of Engineering on Creativity and Innovation in Organizations and received the 2005 Stanford Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. She is also on the faculty of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Previously, she worked as a management consultant for Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, as a multimedia producer at Compaq Computer Corporation, and was the founder a multimedia company called BookBrowser.
2008 SESSIONS
Hybrid And For-Profit Business Models
Non-profit social entrepreneurs often struggle to scale up their innovations without adequate access to the growth capital, distribution systems and infrastructure readily available to conventional businesses. Rather than accepting these limitations, many are increasingly pursuing hybrid models that draw from the best of both worlds, incorporating traditional business structures and strategies to achieve a social bottom line. This session will look at the challenges and opportunities that accompany these new business models, including an overview of different approaches and in-depth discussion with social entrepreneurs at the forefront of this movement.
