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Hayagreeva Rao - Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation
From concepts is his book, Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation, Stanford Professor Hayagreeva Rao presents the idea of market rebels—those that create radical innovations by challenging preexisting cultural norms. Social movements and activists create social innovation, transform markets, and bring about collective action through techniques that Rao introduces as “hot causes” and “cool mobilizations.” With case studies from the automobile industry, the microbrewery movement, and a campaign from a nonprofit health organization, Rao provides an outline of how market rebels apply these techniques to drive innovation. He spoke at the 2009 Nonprofit Management Institute, an event sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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Educational Entrepreneurship
Educational reformers discuss the importance of innovation in education through social entrepreneurship, with case studies of post-Hurricane Katrina education policies.
Concrete Ways for the US to Move “Beyond the Line” When It Measures Poverty
What would it take to implement “next-generation” poverty measures in the United States?
Digging for Ponies
Two years after the spectacular failure in the financial markets, it’s getting even more difficult to look on the bright side.
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Environmental Sustainabililty and Water Supply
Peter Gleick explains how and why the world is in a water crisis that is leading to a disconnect between supply and demand
Questions to Address Youth Unemployment
We need to spur fresh thinking in this field even as we test and evaluate diverse approaches that promote youth economic empowerment in developing countries.
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Closing Achievement Gaps
How the civil rights and education reform movements are similar.
This Old Green House
Clean Energy Works Portland gets consumers—and the workforce—energized about weatherization.
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Scaling Impact in Education
Education entrepreneurs share how innovative ideas, models, and policies may be focused and scaled so that more children can get the education they deserve.