Review: How to Change the World

Review By Mark R. Kramer

Key social innovators have succeeded against all odds –– and with little financial muscle.

Bettering Beantown

By Betsy Haley

Greenlight is a nonprofit catalyst: It identifes a local need, scours the country for the best program to meet it, and then establishes a chapter in its hometown.

Podcast

John Sage - Social Enterprise, Fair Trade and Coffee

Combining idealism with a genuine love of business, John Sage cofounded the social enterprise company Pura Vida, one of the largest distributors of fair trade organic coffee in the world. In this University podcast, he discusses his mission to improve the lives of people in coffee-growing regions. Sage explains how Pura Vida works at the intersection of the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, showing how the two can be blended to generate both revenues and social good.

Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition

By Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg 40

Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.

Podcast

Yvon Chouinard - Corporate Social Responsibility and Profits

Patagonia has found corporate social responsibility to be a profitable strategy. In this audio lecture, Yvon Chouinard, founder,  offers a slew of counterintuitive business tips on how to save the environment while making money. This self-proclaimed "reluctant business man" reveals himself to be a business visionary.

Faith in Fair Trade

By Kathryn Wolford & Lisa Bonds 1

How Lutherans are transforming their love of coffee into global good.

Podcast

Chip Heath - Social Enterprise and Great Ideas

In the world of social enterprise, why do some ideas survive and others die? Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Chip Heath reveals the secret in this audio lecture. He provides frameworks and advice to help social innovators launch their endeavors.

Green Fire

By Laila Weir

A Chilean firewood certification program spares both the air and indigenous business.

Podcast

Gary Hirshberg - Social Entrepreneurs Invent the Future

Can businesses deliver strong returns to shareholders while also promoting the health of people and the planet? In this audio lecture recorded at Bridging the Gap, the 2005 Stanford Net Impact conference, Gary Hirshberg, the phenomenally successful pioneer of the organic foods industry, utters a resounding yes.

15 Minutes with Victoria Hale

By Eric Nee 1

MacArthur “genius” prize winner creates drugs for the developing world.