Human Rights
Peddling Diversity
Nancy Leong’s Identity Capitalists reveals the profit motives of diversity and inclusion strategies.
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Business - Book Reviews
Innovative ways to enhance corporate social responsibility
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Scaling
The Next Silicon Valley
Dan Breznitz’s Innovation in Real Places challenges readers to reconsider the disruptive approach to innovation.
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Philanthropy & Funding
The Feminist Trailblazer of Black Philanthropy
A new biography of Madam C. J. Walker shows how America’s first self-made female millionaire and Black entrepreneur put philanthropy at the center of her business and life.
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Business
Big Structural Change
Rebecca Henderson’s Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire outlines five ways we can reform capitalism to overcome climate change, inequality, and the collapse of democracy. A book review in the Summer 2020 issue.
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Leadership
The Activist CEO
Salesforce founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff wants the business world to adopt new values. Can he and other leaders live up to those norms? Do we even want them to? A book review from the Spring 2020 issue.
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Measurement & Evaluation
How to Measure and Manage Performance
The book presents a thought-provoking framework for categorizing and implementing performance management strategies based on the causal relationship between an organization’s activities and outcomes and on its control over those outcomes. A book review from the Winter 2020 issue.
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Business
The Company You Keep
Management scholar Sarah Kaplan argues in The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation that the trade-offs businesses confront in dealing with multiple stakeholders present opportunities for growth and innovation. A book review from the Fall 2019 issue.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Strategic Philanthropy Reconsidered
The authors of Money Well Spent reconsider their original arguments a second time around.
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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.
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Security
Information Isn’t Just Power
We should care about who is able to control and distribute data, but information is more than just a commodity.