#50 - Building Purpose Aligned Businesses at LSE Generate with Dr Paroma Bhattacharya

Date: Monday 5th August 2024

To celebrate the 50th episode of The Social Impact Journal, we welcome Episode 1 guest Dr Paroma Bhattacharya back to the show to catch up about how her team at LSE Generate are helping to build purpose aligned businesses.

Paroma is the Head of Social Innovation at LSE Generate. She leads Research and Programme Delivery in the domain of Social Innovation for LSE Generate, the Entrepreneurship Hub at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which supports current students, alumni and staff of LSE on their entrepreneurial journey.

Paroma has a Ph.D. in Management and her research interests and expertise lie in the field of social innovation and entrepreneurship, with a focus on the organizational behaviour of start-up social enterprises, the incubation and acceleration of early-stage social venture teams and social business model innovation in the context of emerging economies. 

Paroma completed her Ph.D. in Management in 2021 from Durham University Business School, in association with the LSE Social Innovation Lab. After completing her Ph.D., she was a Post Doctoral Researcher at the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (FLIA) and the LSE Social Innovation Lab, working on her post-doctoral research project, funded by the ERC grant, ‘Individual Action through Social Organizations: The Case of Poverty’. From 2021-2023, Paroma was a Fellow in the LSE Department of Management, serving as a teaching faculty member for the Master's in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme. 

Her research, work, and field experience, in the domains of Social Innovation and International Development, spans across 13+ years and several countries, including India, UK, Denmark, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Rwanda.

In the episode, we discuss:

-Traits of a successful social entrepreneur
-Legal structures for a social enterprise
-How does a social entrepreneur balance the need for innovation and risk management?
-Examples of exceptional social ventures 
-How LSE Generate supports social ventures?
-Advice for a social entrepreneur in a moment of adversity.


Connect with Dr Paroma here:
Youtube - https://youtube.com/@drparomabhattacharya?si=43m-O4QgwdQBVXjN

Linkedin -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/paromabhattacharya/


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