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
Collaboration
Stretching Toward Solutions
Although his advice could at times be more concrete, Kahane offers an effective critique of current approaches to collaboration and shows the need for a different way of working together.
Food
Resetting the Table
Carolan makes an ambitious attempt to analyze the social relationships that undergird our global food system.
Foundations
In Defense of Perpetuity
Limited-life foundations are currently all the rage, but Fleishman’s book reminds us that perpetual, endowed foundations are in many cases preferable.
Education
Learning From Each Other
Experienced educators provide guidance for those wishing to create and maintain effective partnerships between researchers and educators.