Failing to Lead
An excerpt from Failing To Win: Hard-Earned Lessons from a Purpose-Driven Startup on critical mistakes and what could have been.
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Economic Development - Book Excerpts
Social innovations that improve the living standards of the poor
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Cultivating Serendipity
A new book prescribes an active approach to managing uncertainty and creating positive outcomes in a fast-changing world.
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Rethinking Democracy, the Social Contract, and Globalization
Renovating Democracy explores how the digital revolution has irrevocably altered how we engage with participatory democracy and with how democracy works for us.
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Basic Income and Development Goals
Through a skeptical lens, The Case for Universal Basic Income lays bare the reasons for universal basic income in a shared sense of humanity.
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Open Source Aid
An excerpt from The Business of Changing the World: How Billionaires, Tech Disrupters, and Social Entrepreneurs are Transforming the Global Aid Industry argues the case for openness.
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The Significance of Four Centuries of Black Labor
An excerpt from Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America reflects on the meaning of centuries of black labor for the future of America’s economy and democracy.
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Sustainable Disruption
An excerpt from Can Business Save the Earth?: Innovating Our Way to Sustainability
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Five Industry-Changing Principles from India
An excerpt from Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How To Make Value-Based Delivery Work
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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.