Fox School of Business adjunct professor selected as speaker for TEDxPhiladelphia
Temple University’s Fox School of Business adjunct professor of entrepreneurship Chris Rabb was chosen as one of 19 speakers from a pool of 500 candidates nominated by colleagues, to speak at TEDxPhiladelphia, held at the Temple Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 28. The conference theme is The New Workshop of the World and Rabb is scheduled to speak at 2:30 PM.
Rabb specializes in social entrepreneurship and organizational innovation, is an affiliated member of Temple’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI), based at the Fox School, and is the IEI’s social entrepreneur-in-residence. Rabb’s Tedx Talk will focus on the importance of commonwealth entrepreneurship. Rabb has also authored the book Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity, which discusses the concept that society’s further democratizing entrepreneurial opportunities would lead to greater social inclusion, economic sustainability and community wealth-building.
Rabb states that “I’ve always connected entrepreneurship to social justice (and) I was often looking at businesses through the lens of creating opportunities despite the systems that keep inequalities as is”. As part of this ethos, Rabb recently hosted an interactive session with ex-prisoners who had returned to North Philadelphia and were seeking to develop entrepreneurial literacy to apply to skills sets needed to obtain employment and positively impact the community.
