Fostering the Creative Economy
The creative industries—those at the crossroads of arts, culture, business, and technology—can offer an economic jump-start for recovering economies.
Social Enterprise Innovative ways that organizations are using and adapting business strategies to advance social and environmental well-being
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An Absorbing Problem
To help low-income residents, urban communities need to build up their capacity for using investment capital effectively.
Cuban Remix
In measured but far-reaching ways, a state-controlled economy is opening a space for socially responsible enterprise.
Growth Stage
A novel artistic strategy and a novel ticket-pricing model distinguish Signature Theatre from its counterparts on and off Broadway.
The Rise of a Fourth Sector Skills Set
Tomorrow’s leaders are already developing a new problem-solving mindset—good thing, because they need to.
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Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Problem With Fair Trade Coffee
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers.
Rediscovering Social Innovation
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular and positive rallying points for those trying to improve the world, but social innovation is a better vehicle for understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations.
ESG Is Not Impact Investing and Impact Investing Is Not ESG
Understanding these six important differences will both facilitate better conversations and help channel funds appropriately.