Why Cultivating Your Innovation Ecosystem Is Worth the Work
New research shows there are clear benefits to strengthening the complex environments that enable place-based innovation.
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Giving Voice to Values
Reframing the questions we ask about values-driven leadership underlies a not-so-modest proposal to inspire and enable real change in management education and management practice.
Navigating Purpose and Collaboration in Social Impact Networks
Most models for developing networks for collaboration emphasize discovering or clarifying purpose as the first step. But purpose doesn’t always have to manifest in the form of a single vision or strategic plan shared among all participants.
How Experienced Practice Can Reform Management Education
Personal experience is central to the education and development of managers.
Civil Society and American Exceptionalism
American civil society has a history of and reputation for political independence—and alongside it, accountability, transparency, and governance. But these unique qualities are at risk.
Leadership
Management as a Calling
Business’s capacity to transform society is only as great as the schools that train its future leaders. This demands that business schools reform their vision to promote values of business serving society in order for students to see business as a true calling rather than simply a career. Here is a blueprint for management education in the 21st century.
Creating a Higher Standard of Data Use and Protection
How the social sector can lead the way to ethical and responsible data use.
Finding More Investment Support for Gender-Diverse Founding Teams
Women co-run businesses are outperforming their male-only counterparts, but not enough investors are betting on them. Here’s what we can do to support representative entrepreneurial ecosystems and how an India-based investor is pointing the way.
Podcast
The Tenuous Relationship Between Technology and Social Innovation
Rob Reich, a Marc and Laura Andreessen faculty co-director of Stanford PACS, moderates a conversation about the promise and peril of technology in civil society. Reich is joined by Kelly Born, a program manager at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Madison Initiative, and Arisha Hatch, managing director of campaigns at Color of Change.