Eurkus even suggested that audience members begin their international development careers in the private sector first.

Lauren E. Cozzolino ’04 said she learned about the importance of business expertise first-hand.

“I’m a government concentrator, but after being abroad in Hong Kong and spending my summer travelling through Cambodia, I realized how much business pushes international development and I’m taking more economics classes now,” she said.

SEC, which sponsored the panel, hopes to get more Harvard students interested in business to apply their skills to social work, says Director of Operations and event organizer Francisco Aguilar ’05.

SEC President Jason S. Lee ’05 said that his club sees an increase in demand among students for volunteer experiences in social enterprise.

Lee said the SEC is planning an internship program that will place 8 to 10 undergraduates onto consulting teams at the New Sector Alliance, a Boston-area non-profit consulting firm.

The students will advise non-profit organizations and hopefully, said Lee, come back to campus with the business savvy required to assist undergraduate non-profit organizations before continuing to careers in social enterprise.