To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

We can’t ask social enterprises to have a big impact if they can’t get the resources they need to grow bigger. In Britain, for example, fewer than 10% of the tens of thousands of social enterprises generate more than £1 million in revenue. Why is that? Read this guest post by Alan Hirzel, a trustee of The Social Business Trust and a partner in the London office of Bain & Company.