Design Thinking
Getting Beyond Hype: Four Questions to Predict Real Impact
A simple way to think about investment and design.
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Nonprofits
Social Good = Scale x Impact (Who Knew?)
Why both nonprofits and academics should focus on scale and impact in this simple formula for good.
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Government
Government by Toolkit
The first chief technology officer of the United States offers a vision for remaking public services.
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Technology & Design
A Messy Solution to Messy Problems
An emerging method for enabling innovation focuses not on plans or projects, but on broad social challenges.
Education
Roundtable on Shared Value in Education
Seventeen corporate and global education leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum 2014 in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how they are rethinking the role of business in global education.
Socially Responsible Business
Corporate Impact Venturing: A New Path to Sustainability
A new report highlights the power of venture capital to source sustainable business innovations.
Food
Food Doesn’t Grow in Silicon Valleys
A focus on innovation can be an impediment to genuine progress in the food system.
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Social Entrepreneurship
The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator
The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator describes the journeys of ten innovators who discovered problems that they couldn't ignore.
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Business
Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More without Settling for Less
Scaling Up Excellence uses stories of struggle and success from various organizations to explore the idea of scaling.
Health
Meeting the Challenges of Global Health
In bringing health care to the developing world, innovators can benefit from lessons others learned the hard way. Includes magazine extras.