Podcasts

Bill Gates on social entrepreneurship and philanthropy

Education for the Real World

Featuring Bill Gates 1

Microsoft founder Bill Gates challenges Stanford MBA students to take on the world’s difficult problems as a focus of their career or life mission.

Jeannie Stamberger of the Disaster Management Institute at Carnegie Mellon University on using social media to foster social responsibility

Crowd-Sourcing Disaster Relief

Featuring Jeannie Stamberger

Jeannie Stamberger discuss how to write retweetable messages, how to separate legitimate helpers from posers and how to use social media to prevent loss of life.

Nicolas Shea, the innovation and entrepreneurship advisor to the Chilean minister of economy, on global social entrepreneurship

International Development and Entrepreneurship

Featuring Nicolas Shea

Nicolas Shea, the innovation and entrepreneurship advisor to the Chilean minister of economy, discusses the Start-Up Chile program.

UCLA Anderson School of Management Professor Noah Goldstein on social responsibility

Social Innovations

The Role of Social Norms in Energy and Water Conservation

Featuring Noah J. Goldstein

UCLA Professor Noah Goldstein discusses how the power of social norms can been used to promote energy conservation and other prosocial outcomes.

Philanthropy and Fundraisers’ Motivation

Featuring Adam Grant

what can be done to help money-soliciting callers become more enthused and successful?

Ending the Nonprofit Starvation Cycle

Featuring Ann Goggins Gregory & Don Howard

Why are so many nonprofits in a perpetual starvation cycle? How capacity building and systems are crucial nonprofit building points.

Leadership in an Uncertain World

Featuring Katherine Fulton

Challenges nonprofit professionals face in an increasingly fast-paced, demanding world.

The Emerging Social Impact Market

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Annually, more than a trillion dollars are spent on millions of American nonprofit and government institutions. And 15 nonprofits are started each day. But there is still not significant progress on social issues in the United States. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Andrew Wolk, CEO of Root Cause, argues that the time has come for a social impact market—one that fosters innovation and collaboration across the governmental, business, and nonprofit sectors to maximize scarce resources and spread solutions. Wolk believes this cross-sector approach presents our best chance to solve long-term educational, healthcare, environmental, and other problems.