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In Remembrance: J. Gregory Dees ’81MPPM Died on December 20 2013

J. Gregory Dees, a Duke University professor recognized internationally for developing social entrepeneurship as an academic field, died at Duke Hospital on December 20, 2013. He was 63. The author of two books, dozens of articles, and other scholarship, Dees helped show how the theory and practice of entrepeneurship and innovation could be blended with social missions to tackle poverty, pollution, and other global challenges in new, high-impact ways.

A full obituary was published in Duke Today on December 21, 2013. 

 

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