Health
Fortifying Health Care Startups in the Middle East and North Africa
A cohort of startups is building new, scalable, and cost-effective solutions that can help enhance health care knowledge and mitigate medical risks throughout the region.
Tag: Human Capital
Cities
Building “Silicon Valleys of Impact”
As US cities race to build out strategies for fostering local innovation and technology, there is a tremendous opportunity for forward-thinking leaders to support social entrepreneurs.
Collaboration
More Power, Less Cohesion
People who rise within a hierarchy often develop qualities that make it hard for them work together in groups.
Organizational Development
Policies, Processes, and Protocols: Three Keys to Building a Diverse Workplace
We need new tools to address institutional bias, and to set a new standard for diversity and inclusion at social sector organizations.
Business
Doing Business in Africa: Where Strategy Meets Social Investment
Five strategic principles for businesses thinking about entering a new market.
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Organizational Development
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
An Everyone Culture argues that organizations do best when they build an environment that encourages constant personal development among their employees.
Business
Women and Innovation: Making the Connection
There is growing evidence that greater gender equality leads to increased business innovation, and companies that pay attention stand to reap great rewards.
Foundations
Making Good Ideas Go Viral
A less-traveled path to education reform: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is catalyzing three social forces to create an epidemic of best practice.
Philanthropy & Funding
New MOOCs for Rising Leaders
Two recent initiatives deploy online learning technology to provide training for social sector professionals on a global scale.
Business
Big Blue Volunteers
From Mumbai, India, to Mérida, Mexico, IBM employees are applying
their professional skills to a wide range of social challenges.