Podcast

Hayagreeva Rao - Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation

Do you identify as an activist, a social entrepreneur, or both? What do they have in common? In this audio lecture sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Hayagreeva Rao, explores how the joined hands of activists, or "market rebels," shape markets, and how this promotes or blocks innovation. Rao's lessons are applicable to leaders in the nonprofit and for-profit spheres, marketers, and activists who harness collective action for institutional and social change.

Turning the Tides: The Future of Environmentally Conscious Social Innovation

By Shane Moise 1

A report from the global environment conference Turning the Tide.

Skoll Award Recipients Focus on Ecosystem Services Market

By Grace Augustine

Three of the seven recipients of this year’s awards were from the field of ecosystem services and avoided deforestation.

All Entrepreneurship Is Social

By Carl Schramm 24

Let’s not overlook what traditional entrepreneurs contribute to society.

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John Mackey - Conscious Business and Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship requires conscious leadership, says Whole Foods CEO John Mackey in this University podcast. Delivering a talk sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Mackey issues a clarion call for nothing less than "conscious capitalism," arguing that business can indeed serve more than the almighty dollar. He discusses his own company's challenges in the social enterprise arena.

Settling Up

By Tamara Straus 3

Upwardly Global places skilled immigrants in jobs worthy of their talents.

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Paul Rice - Promoting Fair Trade as Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship may be the most promising avenue for solving global problems, says Paul Rice, CEO of TransFair USA. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Rice details his own work to establish Fair Trade. The movement has opened the U.S. market to more than 1.4 million small family farmers around the world who are now getting a fair price for their harvests and making dramatic gains in their living standards.

The Flattened Campus

By Suzie Boss

The world's first tuition-free online university hopes to dramatically increase access to higher education.

Leap Forward for Social Enterprises

By Suzie Boss

Rick Aubry is designing social enterprises that can succeed on a national scale.

Strength Through Flexibility

By Kim Jonker 1

Over the past 17 years, the Forum for African Women Educationalists has delivered high-quality education to millions of girls across 35 African countries.