Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Solving Wicked Problems for Sustainable Impact

In the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) issued by the United Nations in 2015, the following global issues were highlighted: poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice.

So, as a member of the innovation and entrepreneurship community, how can we use our creativity to solve the challenges hidden in the sustainable impact or what we called as “wicked” problems?

For this InE ESS sharing session, we are pleased to invite Matthew T.A. Nash, the managing director for the Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University. He will bring his views on “solving the ‘wicked’ problem posed by the sustainable impact”. This time ESS will be held remotely. Looking forward to your attendance!

Matthew T.A. Nash is a graduate of the Yale School of Management (MBA) and Yale College (BA), where he received a Graduation award for Public Service. Prior to joining Duke University, He was a senior consultant in strategy and change management with the public sector practice at IBM Business Consulting Services (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting). Matt served a diverse set of clients in this position and previous consulting capacities, including large agencies such as World Vision, UNICEF, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. After joining Duke University, Matt served as executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and founding center director of the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD).

Now at Duke University, Matt is a visiting lecturer at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy, also he is responsible for designing and managing university-wide social innovation and entrepreneurship programming for the Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative. For his work in founding and leading the Global Consulting Practicum in Social Entrepreneurship course at Duke, he received an inaugural award for Innovation in Social Entrepreneurship Education from Ashoka, the global network of leading social entrepreneurs.