Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review is an award-winning magazine covering best strategies for nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible businesses. Published quarterly by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Articles: Social Entrepreneurship

Date Author Category Title
Spring 2008
Abby Fung
Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsiblity Baked Goods

Dancing Deer Bakery helps most when it keeps its eye on the bottom line.

(left): CEO Patricia Karter (right) and employees ice cookies. The company hires heavily from its surrounding low-income neighborhood of Roxbury.

Spring 2008
Leslie Berger
Social Entrepreneurship Garden-Variety Revolution [Free!]

TerraCycle turns what others leave behind into fertilizers and fashion.

Spring 2008
Rick Aubry
Social Entrepreneurship Review: The Power of Unreasonable People
Spring 2008
Joshua Weissburg
Social Entrepreneurship The BOP Beckons [Free!]

Why grassroots design will determine the winners in developing markets.

Winter 2008
Paul N. Bloom & J. Gregory Dees
Social Entrepreneurship Cultivate Your Ecosystem

Social entrepreneurs not only must understand the broad environment in which they work, but also must shape those environments to support their goals, when feasible. Borrowing insights from the field of ecology, the authors offer an ecosystems framework to help social entrepreneurs create long-lasting and significant social change.

Fall 2007
Jessica Flannery
Social Entrepreneurship Micro-franchise Against Malaria [Free!]

How for-profit clinics are healing and enriching the rural poor in Kenya.

Summer 2007
Carolyn Said
Social Entrepreneurship Green for Green

Peter Liu started his working life as an engineer at the oil giant Chevron Corp. The experience turned him into an avid environmentalist. Several years later, it also led him to co-found the New Resource Bank, which calls itself the nation’s first “green” commercial bank. 

Spring 2007
James A. Phills, Jr.
Social Entrepreneurship 15 Minutes with Kevin Johnson [Free!]

SSIR Academic Editor Jim Phills sat down with former NBA superstar Kevin Johnson to discuss how he’s revitalizing his old inner-city neighborhood.

Spring 2007
Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg
Social Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition [Free!]

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. Some say that a more inclusive term is best, but the authors argue that we need a more rigorous definition.

Winter 2007
Kathryn Wolford & Lisa Bonds
Social Entrepreneurship Faith in Fair Trade

How Lutherans are transforming their love of coffee into global good.

Winter 2007
Laila Weir
Social Entrepreneurship • Program Effectiveness Green Fire

A Chilean firewood certification program spares both the air and indigenous business.

Winter 2007
Anne Stuhldreher
Social Entrepreneurship • Program Effectiveness The People’s IPO [Free!]

Lower-income patrons of Market Creek Plaza can now invest in the shopping center.

Winter 2007
Eric Nee
Social Entrepreneurship 15 Minutes with Victoria Hale [Free!]

MacArthur “genius” prize winner creates drugs for the developing world.

Winter 2007
James T. Riordan
Social Entrepreneurship • Fundraising and Marketing One Buyer at a Time [Free!]

International development organizations spend lots of money and effort building the capacity of small businesses. Yet they often fail to ask whether people want the businesses’ goods and services. As these stories from Peru show, successful programs start with real buyers who are willing to buy real products.

Winter 2007
James E. Austin, Roberto Gutiérrez, Enrique Ogliastri, & Ezequiel Reficco
Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsiblity Capitalizing on Convergence [Free!]

Nonprofits and businesses are converging - in the value they create, the stakeholders they manage, the organizations they form, and the financial instruments they use.  The era of convergence is upon us.  Do you know how to take advantage of it?

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