Technology & Design
The Ethics of Innovation
An ethical framework can bridge the worlds of startup technology and international development to strengthen cross-sector innovation in the social sector.
Tag: Innovation Theory
Nonprofit Management
Leading Against the Odds
The best social change leaders take risks when they need to, but they know better than to sacrifice themselves for the cause.
Nonprofit Management
Great Ideas and Great Execution Require Different Skills
Five important lessons on the relationship between innovating and achieving scale.
Government
The Lean Startup Goes to Washington
Evidence-based policy, iteration, and innovation are making their way into government.
Social Entrepreneurship
Seven Elements of Social Innovation
A new framework emerges for social innovation education.
Socially Responsible Business
Social Sabbaticals and the New Face of Leadership
A look at SAP’s corporate initiatives to develop new talent for work in emerging markets.
Nonprofit Management
Is Your Nonprofit Really Ready to Use the Lean Startup?
Four lessons from the front line.
Philanthropy
The Re-Emerging Art of Funding Innovation
A growing number of foundations are reintroducing risk-taking into their processes and portfolios as one way to create breakthrough change.
Socially Responsible Business
How the Hub Found Its Center
After a period of crisis and transition, Impact Hub has emerged as an organization that is partly a movement, partly a business, and partly a network.
Social Entrepreneurship
Inside-Out Innovation
Supplements to the article “Social Innovation From the Inside Out.”