Rolfe Larson

Rolfe Larson has more than twenty years of experience managing and advising organizations in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Prior to starting RLA in 1995, Rolfe Larson was an executive for almost ten years at Minnesota Public Radio, where his responsibilities included identifying, researching, and launching new business ventures. Several of the ventures he helped launch generated significant value to MPR. Business areas include music marketing, product licensing, mail order catalogs, publishing, and commercial broadcast media.

For more than a dozen years, Rolfe was a Professor of Marketing at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, at the College of Business, where he taught courses in marketing, business planning and social entrepreneurship. Rolfe has served on the boards of the Social Enterprise Alliance, The Nature Conservancy in Minnesota, and Mississippi Market. Rolfe holds a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and an MBA from Yale University, with an emphasis in marketing and finance.

He helped found and moderate the npEnterprise Forum, the global, 7500 subscriber listserv exclusively focused on social enterprise/earned income strategies. It is the official listserv partner of the Social Enterprise Alliance. See www.npEnterprise.net for more information or to subscribe.

Rolfe writes weekly blogs on business planning ( http://bit.ly/aMto3p ) and on social enterprise ( http://bit.ly/becVcW ).

Since 1995, Rolfe Larson Associates has been helping organizations develop entrepreneurial strategies to increase mission impact. We provide guidance and direction on social enterprise strategies such as selling goods and services, licensing, and business partnerships. Our services include strategic planning, market research, feasibility analysis and business planning. More information at www.RolfeLarson.com or contact Rolfe at Rolfe@RolfeLarson.com .