Advocacy
For Investors, Protesting Beats Divesting
Investors exert more influence over corporate management through engagement than through boycotts and divestment.
Tag: United States
Leadership
Inclusive Mentorship
A yearlong mentorship program teaches leadership and independent living skills to young disabled women.
Economic Development
Inclusive Growth for Heartland Cities
Tulsa is piloting a new model to measure its growth, hoping other cities will follow suit.
Education
Five Ways Business Schools Can Cultivate Better Leaders
How to change the curriculum, pedagogy, and culture of elite US business schools to foster leaders who are better equipped to serve the public good.
Technology
Leaky Pipelines or Broken Scaffolding? Supporting Women’s Leadership in STEM
Why the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field in the United States struggles to recruit and retain women—especially women of color—and three strategies to support their professional development and leadership in these fields.
Collaboration
Dynamic Strategies for Successful Health Collaboratives
Our research into 19 multistakeholder health efforts identified the crucial factors and leadership moves that together lead to success or failure.
Arts & Culture
Art From the Desert
The nonprofit We Are From Dust offers art from the exclusive Burning Man festival to the public.
Government
Electability Bias Against Female Candidates
Even voters who favor female candidates may withhold support because of worries about their ability to win.
Review
Nonprofits & NGOs
Grantmaking as Governance
Claire Dunning’s Nonprofit Neighborhoods examines how the US government funded the growth of—and delegated governance to—the nonprofit sector.
Philanthropy & Funding
Place-Based Strategies for Reviving America
Social problems are entrenched in distressed communities. New approaches for uplifting neighborhoods demonstrate the scale and collaboration necessary to offer opportunity to all.