Book Reviews | Socially Responsible Business
An Insider’s Tale
A veteran corporate social responsibility leader reflects on “doing well and doing good” at a big oil company.
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Book Reviews
Reviews of top books on social innovation
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Book Reviews | Technology & Design
A Messy Solution to Messy Problems
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
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Book Reviews | Human Rights
Safety as a Civil Right
Lawless violence in the developing world is a plague that undermines efforts to end extreme poverty.
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Book Reviews | Water
Future Thirst
Meeting the world's growing demand for water will require advances in technology that build on 3,000 years of progress.
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Book Reviews | Civil Society
Going With the “Idea Flow”
An emerging "data-driven" science of human behavior promises to help us understand and solve social problems.
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Book Reviews | Nonprofit Management
The Long Race
The art of expanding an organization is less about aiming high than about "grinding it out."
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Book Reviews | Economic Development
Prepare to Update Your Theory of Change
The new book Scarcity provides critical insights for designing better anti-poverty programs, but not for allocating scarce philanthropic resources.
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Book Reviews | Education
Stories out of School
The movement to reform public schools through competition and testing is a "hoax," according to a one-time promoter of the movement.
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Book Reviews | Cities
Saviors at City Hall?
Urban leaders offer a model for tackling big global problems that nation-states are failing to address.
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Book Reviews | Environment
A Man of His Time
The founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute pursues an unfinished agenda.