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October 01 2009
Engage People, Retire Things
Bill Drayton
Bill Drayton
William Drayton is board chair of Get America Working!, a nonpartisan, fuller employment policy citizen group that framed the payroll tax shifting proposal. See www.getamericaworking.org. Named by US News & World Report as one of America's 25 Best Leaders in 2005, he pioneered the concept of and coined the phrase “social entrepreneurship.” Drayton is a MacArthur Fellow and the founder and current CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a citizen movement dedicated to finding and fostering social entrepreneurs worldwide. A former management consultant at McKinsey and Company and faculty member at both Stanford and Harvard, during the Carter administration he served as Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (1977–1981) where he launched emissions trading among other reforms.
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Bill Drayton
William Drayton is board chair of Get America Working!, a nonpartisan, fuller employment policy citizen group that framed the payroll tax shifting proposal. See www.getamericaworking.org. Named by US News & World Report as one of America's 25 Best Leaders in 2005, he pioneered the concept of and coined the phrase “social entrepreneurship.” Drayton is a MacArthur Fellow and the founder and current CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a citizen movement dedicated to finding and fostering social entrepreneurs worldwide. A former management consultant at McKinsey and Company and faculty member at both Stanford and Harvard, during the Carter administration he served as Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (1977–1981) where he launched emissions trading among other reforms.
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2009
Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (2009) 4 (4): 49–55.
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Bill Drayton; Engage People, Retire Things. Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 2009; 4 (4): 49–55. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/itgg.2009.4.4.49
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