Nondisruptive Creation
An excerpt from Beyond Disruption on positive-sum innovation
An excerpt from Beyond Disruption on positive-sum innovation
UPenn’s ambitious Eidos initiative marries business innovation with health research to tackle LGBTQ+ health inequities.
First Light Hospitality has developed a scalable social enterprise that provides jobs, life skills, and outdoor fun for young people aging out of the social-services system.
Mental health is an essential intervention to address violence and trauma at the individual, interpersonal, and systemic levels.
Integrating positive mental health practices is the only way for social change leaders to maximize the incredible potential of their organizations and the communities they serve.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Understanding these six important differences will both facilitate better conversations and help channel funds appropriately.