Book Excerpts Excerpts from books on social innovation

Rules and Rituals: How to Drive Change

By Zia Khan 1

To achieve systems change, we must pay attention not just to formal procedures, but also to culture.

The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

By Josh Sullivan & Angela Zutavern

How companies in industries such as pharmaceuticals are starting to learn that by giving more data away, they actually get more back.

The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur

By Jonathan C. Lewis

In accepting responsibility for social entrepreneurship, you and I accept the inescapable tension between two very legitimate impulses: the impulse to respect a community, and the impulse to change it.

Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions With Confidence and Conviction

By Cheryl Einhorn 2

How leaders can work with, and work through, ambiguity to make thoughtful decisions in an uncertain and volatile world.

Experimental Conversations: Perspectives on Randomized Trials in Development Economics

By Timothy Ogden

A dialogue with University of Michigan professor Dean Yang on what we can—and can't—learn from randomized controlled trials.