Organizational Development
Rules and Rituals: How to Drive Change
To achieve systems change, we must pay attention not just to formal procedures, but also to culture.
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Book Excerpts
Excerpts of top books on social innovation
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Business
The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible
How companies in industries such as pharmaceuticals are starting to learn that by giving more data away, they actually get more back.
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Human Rights
The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur
In accepting responsibility for social entrepreneurship, you and I accept the inescapable tension between two very legitimate impulses: the impulse to respect a community, and the impulse to change it.
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Organizational Development
Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions With Confidence and Conviction
How leaders can work with, and work through, ambiguity to make thoughtful decisions in an uncertain and volatile world.
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Measurement & Evaluation
Experimental Conversations: Perspectives on Randomized Trials in Development Economics
A dialogue with University of Michigan professor Dean Yang on what we can—and can't—learn from randomized controlled trials.
- Book Reviews
Reviews of top books on social innovation
Philanthropy & Funding
Give and Take
Callahan does an excellent job showing the many ways that major donors' charitable giving overlaps with their political aims, but he could say more about the broader context in which they operate.
Economic Development
Income for All
The idea of universal basic income is more practical than it might sound.
Organizational Development
Turning Empathy Inward
To function well, social organizations need to promote understanding of and compassion toward not just the people they serve but also their own employees.
Economic Development
The Closer You Look, the Worse It Seems
New research details how US families struggle with unstable income not just from year to year but even from week to week.