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Innovative ways to enhance corporate social responsibility

 
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A Lifeline for Mothers

Merck for Mothers—a 10-year, $500 million initiative—aims to improve the odds for vulnerable women around the globe.

 
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The Emerging Market Era

A "reverse innovation" guru provides anecdotes and advice about how to succeed in emerging markets.

 
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Risky Business

How The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approaches high-risk philanthropic ventures.

 

Elizabeth Littlefield

Elizabeth Littlefield heads up OPIC, a federal agency that helps steer billions of dollars of private investment capital to developing countries.

By Johanna Mair | Summer 2012
 

Big Society Capital Marks a Paradigm Shift

How the UK’s social investment bank will harness entrepreneurship and capital to solve societal problems.

 
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A Market (Rather Than Civil) Society

In his new book, Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel asks what, if any, are the moral limits of the marketplace.

Reviewed By Rob Reich | 3
 
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Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving

By Jon Kolko | 2
 
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The Social Innovation Imperative

 
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Leveraging Corporate Responsibility: The Stakeholder Route to Maximizing Business and Social Value

 
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Conformists Boost Creativity

The ideal team needs both creatives and conformists.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Spring 2012