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Solving Inequality Through Business that Benefits All
New research indicates that strong stakeholder orientation—when companies aim to benefit all parties that could be affected by its success or failure—could help solve inequality by providing competition at the base of the pyramid.
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Finding More Investment Support for Gender-Diverse Founding Teams
Women co-run businesses are outperforming their male-only counterparts, but not enough investors are betting on them. Here’s what we can do to support representative entrepreneurial ecosystems and how an India-based investor is pointing the way.
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Can Technology Finally Deliver on India’s Legal Aid Promise?
New digital projects could make legal services far more accessible—but they need to be about more than just the technology.
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Expanding Access to Health Care in India Through Strong Mobile Design
Mobile interventions have great potential to make health care in India more accessible. But for providers to succeed, they must develop a nuanced understanding of the barriers to digital consumption and consider four specific aspects of design.
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New Frontiers in Indian Corporate Social Responsibility
The timing is opportune for CSR to catalyze impact in India’s development sector.
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Learning to Live in a Team-of-Teams World
Five years ago, Bill Drayton described the emergence of a new organizational model for the social sector. Recent research highlights its promise.
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Rural Sanitation in India: The Poo Party
While a national effort to eliminate open defecation across India still has a long way to go, a variety of local and regional efforts aimed specifically at changing behavioral norms are pointing the way forward.
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Making Indian Philanthropy Matter
To translate India’s robust growth in giving into impact, the sector must find ways to address the roots of inequality, nonprofit dependency on business, and an underdeveloped philanthropic system.
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Low Performance and High Satisfaction: The Information Paradox of Bad Schools
Parents in emerging economies seem happy with schools that don’t teach their kids very much. The lack of demand for good quality education could be one of the biggest barriers to solving the education crisis.
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Rethinking Women’s Work in India
Through innovative strategies for bringing women into the workforce, social enterprise is poised to transform the meaning of “women’s work.”
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As the world’s largest democracy, few if any countries are more important than India when it comes to the practice of social innovation. That’s why in 2015 Stanford Social Innovation Review co-produced the first print edition of Impact India, followed by a second print edition in 2017. Today, SSIR offers ongoing online coverage of social innovation in India.