Gregory Dees
Gregory Dees, also known as James Gregory Dees, was an American scholar and pioneer in social entrepreneurship education. Born on October 16, 1950, in Cincinnati, Ohio, he died on December 20, 2013, in Durham, North Carolina.
He earned a BA in philosophy from the University of Cincinnati, a master's in public and private management from Yale, and a PhD in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.
Dees helped start the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He joined Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 2001 as an Adjunct Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and co-founded the Center for Social Entrepreneurship Development (CASE) at Duke with Beth Battle Anderson. He also chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on social entrepreneurship and on social innovation.
Dees passed away at Duke Hospital in 2013.
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