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 Tagged With 'innovation'

Date Author Category Title
Summer 2006
John Voelcker
Environment • Healthcare • Social Entrepreneurship Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies

Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems – disease, malnutrition, pollution, and illiteracy – to name just a few. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better. That’s why the organizations profiled here are working with businesses, NGOs, and governments to get their inventions into the hands of those who need them most.

Winter 2007
Noah Weiss
Government Government by Numbers

How CitiStat’s hard data and straight talk saved Baltimore.

Winter 2007
David Vogel
Corporate Social Responsibility • Government • Socially Responsible Investing Review: Capitalism 3.0

A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons.

Spring 2007
James A. Phills, Jr.
Economic Development • Education • Social Entrepreneurship • Community-Centered Planning 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
Meghann Evershed Dryer & Tracy Pizzo
Environment • Social Entrepreneurship Secret Agents

Find out why Method home products keep their eco-friendliness under very attractive wraps.

Spring 2007
Betsy Haley
Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing • Community-Centered Planning Bettering Beantown

Greenlight is a nonprofit catalyst: It identifes a local need, scours the country for the best program to meet it, and then establishes a chapter in its hometown.

Fall 2007
Alana Conner & Keith Epstein
Environment • Nonprofit Management Harnessing Purity and Pragmatism

As the wall between the nonprofit and corporate worlds crumbles, many social change organizations are asking themselves: Do we stick to our activist guns, or do we cross the divide and work with business? Research suggests that social movements need both kinds of organizations to make the changes they seek.

Fall 2007
Alana Conner
Nonprofit Management Creative Spaces

Five tips for designing workplaces that nurture great ideas.

Spring 2008
Michele Jolin
Social Entrepreneurship • Government Innovating the White House [Free!]

How the next president of the United States can spur social entrepreneurship.

Summer 2008
Liisa Välikangas & Michael Gibbert
Economic Development • Social Entrepreneurship • Government Less Is More

Financial aid discourages innovative solutions to poverty.

Fall 2008
James A. Phills Jr., Kriss Deiglmeier, & Dale T. Miller
Nonprofit Management • Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsibility • Philanthropy, Responsible Investing • Government Rediscovering Social Innovation [Free!]

Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular rallying points for those trying to improve the world. These two notions are positive ones, but neither is adequate when it comes to understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations. The authors make the case that social innovation is a better vehicle for doing this. They also explain why most of today’s innovative social solutions cut across the traditional boundaries separating nonprofits, government, and for-profit businesses.

Fall 2008
Alana Conner
Corporate Social Responsibility Research: When Good Wins

CSR as competitive advantage

Fall 2008
John Kao
Economic Development • Book Reviews The Rise of Other Nations [Free!]

THE POST-AMERICAN WORLD by Fareed Zakaria

Fall 2008
James A. Phills Jr.
Social Entrepreneurship • Government Q & A: David Gergen [Free!]

In this interview with James A. Phills Jr., the Stanford Social Innovation Review‘s academic editor, former presidential advisor David Gergen discusses his views on social innovation, why social entrepreneurs should be more engaged in politics, and how the federal government can work with and even fund social entrepreneurs.

Winter 2009
Jennifer Roberts
Education • Social Entrepreneurship What’s Next: GreenNote Friends

GreenNote helps students with no credit history obtain college loans.

Winter 2009
Robert J. Sternberg
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Book Reviews Great Minds Think Different [Free!]

ICONOCLAST: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns

Winter 2009
Jessica Jackley Flannery
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Social Entrepreneurship • Book Reviews Inspiring Innovation [Free!]

THE STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS by Thomas S. Kuhn

Winter 2009
Jennifer Roberts
Social Entrepreneurship What’s Next: Meet Me at the Hub

Grab a mocha and brainstorm.

Winter 2009
Abby Rubin
Education • Corporate Social Responsibility Clicking for Smart CSR

National Instrument’s partnerships not only energize science education, but also boost the company’s brand and employee morale.

Left: An engineer readies her robot at the 2008 FIRST Lego League World Festival, an annual competition that brings together teams of students to show off their engineering chops. Powering her robot was sophisticated software developed by National Instruments. Her team, the Power Peeps of Swartz Creek, Mich., placed third.

Spring 2009
Alana Conner
Government Research: Change Takes New Leaders

New leaders are initially given special license to shake things up.

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