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Social Entrepreneurship in Medical Care

By Tarun Khanna - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Tarun Khanna, Professor at Harvard Business School, highlights the ability of entrepreneurs to provide solutions to social problems by telling the story of a cardiac hospital in India. Khanna points out that the founder, a cardiac surgeon and entrepreneur, has been able to achieve incredible results unmatched by private or public institutions around the world by rethinking the scale on which healthcare is delivered. Khanna emphasizes that this kind of entrepreneurship can solve social problems in ways that often governments cannot.

Course Index

  1. Entrepreneurship Is Social Entrepreneurship
  2. Comparing Development in India and China
  3. Social Entrepreneurship in Medical Care
  4. Government and Entrepreneurship: The Evolution of Entrepreneurship in China