Gordon Bloom is founder of the Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Lab) at Stanford & Harvard Universities and is the Dean’s Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship for 2009-2010. He teaches about the design, creation and development of innovative social change organizations. The SE Lab is a Silicon Valley and technology–influenced social venture incubator, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to global problem solving. It was launched at Stanford in 2001-2002, while Gordon taught on Stanford’s Public Policy Program faculty, and served as a faculty affiliate at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Program Officer at Stanford’s Institute for International Studies. At Harvard, Gordon has taught on the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) faculty in the Leadership and Management Group, and as a principal of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, and as a faculty advisor and affiliate of the Center for Public Leadership, where in 2005 he was one of the founding faculty of the $10M Harvard Reynolds Foundation Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship. Many of the talented students & fellows in his Harvard and Stanford SE Labs have won the top awards of prestigious idea and business plan competitions, including those at Stanford, Harvard, and MIT.
Gordon is an author of the edited volume Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change (A. Nicholls, ed., Oxford University Press, 2006/2008) and is a founding member of the Oxford/Ashoka led University Network for Social Entrepreneurship. Gordon’s interest in entrepreneurship is informed by work in both the private and nonprofit sectors in the U.S. (New York, Cambridge, Palo Alto), Europe (London, Paris) and Asia (Hong Kong), as CEO of a medical technology company and in international strategy consulting. He holds degrees from Harvard (AB) magna cum laude in History & Science, Stanford (MBA) with an award in Public Management and Columbia (MFA) where he held a Shubert Fellowship.