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Articles

 
Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders by John Coleman, Daniel Gulati and W. Oliver Segovia

Social Entrepreneurship

Floating Above the Boxes: Business, Nonprofit, and the Age of Falling Boundaries

 
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Health

Opportunities in Mobile Health

The United States and other industrialized countries can learn from experiments in the developing world that use the humble cell phone as a platform for innovation.

By Jaspal S. Sandhu | 9 | Fall 2011
 
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Economic Development

Antipoverty Apps

mPowering has created an app that awards goods and services to individuals facing extreme poverty when they make beneficial choices.

By Suzie Boss | 9 | Summer 2011
 

Health

Mothers of Invention

Maternova is getting hundreds of life saving innovations to the front lines in developing countries using a new online platform.

By Suzie Boss | 1 | Summer 2011
 
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Energy

Picking Green Tech’s Winners and Losers

Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.

By Clayton M. Christensen, Shuman Talukdar, Richard Alton, & Michael B. Horn | 7 | Spring 2011
 
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Technology & Design

Buzz Control

Social media is a powerful marketing tool. But how do you control your message once it goes viral and is in the hands of the public?

By Jessica Ruvinsky | 1 | Fall 2010
 

Fundraising

Five-Digit Giving

How texting became young donors’ preferred way to make charitable donations.

By Tamara Straus | 4 | Summer 2010
 
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Environment

Sell the Wind

What are social marketers to do when their target audience couldn’t care less about the change they want to make? Here's how one group got everyday people to care about alternative energy.

By Cathy L. Hartman & Edwin R. Stafford | Winter 2010
 
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Philanthropy

The Wrong Risks

By paying so much attention to managing their own risks, philanthropists are no longer attending to the marginalized people who risk so much to make change happen.

By Sheela Patel | 1 | Winter 2010
 
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Nonprofit Management

Outrun the Recession

The seven healthy habits of nonprofits most likely to survive the economic downturn.

By Alan Tuck, Don Howard & William Foster | 6 | Winter 2010