Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth
Jugaad Innovation explores transforming scarcity into opportunity through the gutsy art of improvising an ingenious solution.
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Social Enterprise - Most Popular
Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being (more)
ReCoding Good: Part 3
From the Field Series: An ongoing report of the Philanthropy, Policy, and Technology Project, which explores the use of private resources for public good.
The True Cost of Social Capital
We’re a long way from bringing the real cost of social capital in line with commercial capital.
The Responsible Hand: Overcoming the Shortcomings of Impact Investing
For impact investing to truly harness the power of the market, we need to directly align shareholders’ value with both social impact and profit.
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The Social Innovation Imperative
The Social Innovation Imperative outlines a business approach that takes into consideration the difference between innovating for profit and innovating for social good.
When Leadership Is in Our Way
It is time to shift gears and to stop searching for best practice models on leadership within the Fortune 500 companies.
Unconventional Solutions
As we create new ideas and solutions to society’s problems, we have to be careful not to become too wedded to them and think that they are universally applicable.
Nonprofits
A Decade of Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy
The outgoing president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation reflects on the importance of strategic philanthropy.
Microfinance for Wealthy Countries
The UK microcredit business Fair Finance is paving the road for the growth of microfinance in the developed world.
Petition Power
Change.org, a five-year-old San Francisco-based startup, has emerged as one of the leading platforms for online activism.