Oct 112015
In the past dozen years that the SGV Foundation has been running the Entrepreneur Of The Year Philippines program, it has acknowledged nearly 200 individuals who have contributed positively to the country’s economy and, in effect, to nation-building. When the program was launched in 2003, a basic question we had to grapple with was: what is an entrepreneur? It may sound simple and require an equally simple answer but, in our experience, that is not necessarily the case. What we have learned is that entrepreneurship is very dynamic and diverse; and that an entrepreneur cannot be stereotyped.