Big Picture
Understanding Risk Tolerance in Grantmaking
By applying behavioral economics theory to philanthropy, we can better manage grantmaker tendencies toward loss and risk aversion, and the effects of other decision-making patterns.
Tag: Innovation Theory
Foundations
What Gets Measured Gets Done
A case for using targeted measures of progress in philanthropy.
Philanthropy
Challenging the Orthodoxies of Philanthropy
Are traditional assumptions about how we “do” philanthropy preventing us from finding new and better ways of working?
Nonprofit Management
The Promise of Lean Experimentation
By adopting a model from business, nonprofit organizations can launch, test, and implement new programs and services more efficiently. Includes magazine extras.
Social Entrepreneurship
Thriving on Failure
In cities all around the world, entrepreneurs are gathering to discuss the flubs, flops, and fiascos that punctuate their careers.
Nonprofit Management
They Light a Spark
The catalysts of innovation are almost as rare, and almost as essential, as those who get credit for new ideas.
Foundations
8 Common Innovation Traps
The path to innovation can be tricky, but being aware of the common pitfalls can help funders along the road to breakthrough social change.
Social Entrepreneurship
The Embedded Enterprise
To reach base-of-the-pyramid markets, entrepreneurs need to align their business models with customers’ lives.
Review
Technology & Design
Misdiagnosing Science
A survey of obstacles to innovation focuses erroneously on the supposed caution of university-based scientists.