Earlier this month, NYU’s Reynold’s Program in Social Entreprenurship kicked off its speaker series for the Fall, with a conversation between Catherine Reynolds, who heads a foundation that finances American college students, and David Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN, a professor of public service at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a board member of Teach for America.
The panelists raised several interesting points. While Reynolds highlighted public private partnerships as one valuable way to scale up a project, Gergen pointed out that “the relationship with the government comes fraught with problems.”
He talked about the hazards of entering the public realm. In particular, he said that policy barriers, involving foreign ventures, tax and other regulations are hindering social entrepreneurship ventures from achieving scale.
