Andrew Wolk

Who is Andrew Wolk?

Andrew Wolk is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Root Cause, a Massachusetts-based non-profit that focuses on accelerating performance for social impact.

Now known as a pioneering teacher of social entrepreneurship and a social innovator, Andrew Wolk began his career as a private-sector entrepreneur, having built and sold a multi-restaurant delivery business in the 1990s. Wolk designed and taught one of the first courses on social entrepreneurship in the U.S. at Boston University’s School of Management in 1999. He went on to bring the course to Boston College, Tufts University, Brandeis University, and Washington University. In 2002, he began teaching social entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, where he remains a senior lecturer.

Wolk launched his first social enterprise, the Social Innovation Forum, in 2003 with several colleagues who sought to help nonprofit leaders obtain the resources needed to solve problems plaguing Greater Boston.