Act on Facts, Not Faith
How management can follow medicine's lead and rely on evidence, not on half-truths.
Sectors - Articles
In the Mood for Creativity
Happiness, not melancholy, helps sparks innovation.
Passing the Torch
Baby boomer nonprofit leaders face the future, and it's not us.
Giving Donors Control
A United Way affiliate has boosted fundraising by breaking the rules.
Podcast
Clean Products - Bridging the Gap Conference
Why should professionals care about the environment? In this panel discussion, executives from environmentally conscious companies talk about their strategies to market clean products and share their personal motivation for working on environmental issues.
Podcast
Luther Ragin, Jr. - Is Grantmaking Enough? A Case for Mission-Related Investing
Luther Ragin, Jr., Vice President of Investments for The F.B. Heron Foundation, explains how the mission-related investment approach can harness a foundation's financial power to maximize its social return. From the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford.
Podcast
Ludo Oelrich - A Public-Private Partnership that Works
"Moving the World" is a partnership between logistics company TNT and the United Nations World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian aid agency. Together they provide food aid to an average of 90 million people, including 56 million hungry children, in more than 80 countries. Speaking at the Stanford Effective Disruption Management Seminar, Moving the World Director Ludo Oelrich explains in this audio lecture how the benefits of this association play out both ways.
Podcast
John Rickard and Jon Olson - Public-Private Partnerships for Disaster Relief
Jon Olson has put Intel's supply chain expertise at John Rickard's disposal to bring his organization, International Rescue Committee, to the next level. Speaking together at the Stanford Effective Disruption Management Seminar, they explain in this audio lecture how the supply chain knowledge and frameworks developed in a corporate environment can go a long way when applied to the logistic issues faced by humanitarian disaster relief agencies.
Podcast
Gail Neudorf - Humanitarian Disaster Relief Challenges
Speaking at the Stanford Effective Disruption Management Seminar, Gail Neudorf talks in this audio lecture about some of the challenges and issues faced by humanitarian disaster relief operations.
Podcast
Adele Martz - Business Continuity: Improving GM’s Risk Profile
Adele Martz explains in this audio lecture how risk management puts GM at a competitive advantage to an audience of disaster relief operation actors gathered for the Stanford Effective Disruption Management Seminar.