October 2004
In the News
The Romney Institute of Public Management opened a new class this semester for graduate students titled Social Entrepreneurship: Reinventing the Social Sector. The course educates students on the logistics of social entrepreneurship and how they can work with social enterprises or create one themselves.... The class, PMgt 659R, is taught each fall by the Center for Economic Self-Reliance's Managing Director Todd Manwaring. moreEntrepreneurial Research in Lithuania Unveils Telling Facts
BYU Professor of Organizational Leadership and Strategy and Academic Director of the BYU Center for Economic Self-Reliance Gibb Dyer keeps life interesting by smattering his professional world with various forms of research and development. His current research involves a plethora of areas one of which is entrepreneurship in non-supportive communities like Lithuania. The research focuses on why certain firms in Lithuania seem to be doing better than others. more
BYU Alumni Leads Organization in Alleviating Poverty
Unitus, a microfinance accelerator, strives to create a permanent solution to global poverty as they work with microfinance institutions to empower millions of poverty-stricken individuals world-wide.
The company, headed by CEO and BYU alumni Geoff Davis, was formed in 2000 after a group of friends decided it was time to contribute to alleviating poverty. What started out as Unitus Action Group discussions, donations, and projects, soon became something much more. The founders of Unitus were not content to merely stick their feet in the pool of eliminating global poverty; rather they wanted to create something that would make a significantly larger splash.
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