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 'women'

Date Author Category Title
Summer 2007
Alana Conner
Nonprofit Management • Corporate Social Responsiblity Putting Women in Their Place

Which woman is more likely to attract unpleasant sexual attention: the office sweetheart or the ambitious upstart? A new study by social psychologist Jennifer Berdahl points to the upstart. From her findings, Berdahl concludes that “men aren’t harassing women to get into their pants, but to put them down....”

Spring 2008
Alana Conner
Government Red and Blue Revisited

The more race- and sex-segregated the county, the more Republican it votes.

Spring 2008
Abby Fung
Social Entrepreneurship • Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing 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
Laura Gehl
Government The Mother Lode

MomsRising is tapping a vast resource to improve the lives of American families.

Summer 2008
Leslie Berger
Economic Development • Social Entrepreneurship She’s Crafty [Free!]

World of Good connects female artisans in poor countries with retailers (including Whole Foods Market, pictured) in the West. 

Fall 2008
Alana Conner
Government Research: A Soldier’s Life for Her

The military’s better than civilian life, say minorities and women such as Marine Corps Capt. Elizabeth Okoreeh-Baah, the first woman to pilot the V-22 Osprey.

Fall 2008
Jennifer Roberts
Health Care • Social Entrepreneurship What’s Next: LivingGoods Calling

LivingGoods sends its version of Avon ladies—white-uniformed “health promoters"—knocking on doors in hundreds of Ugandan communities.

Spring 2003
Kari Lyderson
Nonprofit Management Debunking Empowerment

Feeling strong has little to do with mobilization in public housing.

Summer 2003
Jan Chong
Nonprofit Management Fostering Diversity

Employee network groups keep minority managers on the job. 

Summer 2003
Andrew Nelson
Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Love, Honor, and Don’t Bargain

When couples haggle over charity, total giving drops.

Fall 2004
Jan Chong
Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Determining Diversity

Do socially responsible funds ask the right questions?

Winter 2004
Peter Manzo
Nonprofit Management The Real Salary Scandal [Free!]

It’s isn’t that some nonprofit CEOs make big bucks. It’s that most nonprofit employees are paid too little.

Summer 2005
Alessandra Bianchi
Nonprofit Management Educators With Borders

Sometimes nonprofit workers have to learn
to “just say no”.

Summer 2005
Alana Conner Snibbe
Nonprofit Management What Women Don’t Want

How male managers’ patronizing
behavior undercuts female subordinates’ performance.

Winter 2005
Anne Stuhldreher
Economic Development • Corporate Social Responsiblity 15 Minutes with Margaret Henningsen

How an African-American banker is rebuilding her community.

Fall 2006
John Laurenson
Arts, Culture, and Religion • Nonprofit Management • Government The Oldest Profession

How a German nonprofit is repurposing sex workers’ skills.

Fall 2006
Kevin Bolduc
Nonprofit Management • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Review: Effective Philanthropy

Organizational Success Through Deep Diversity and Gender Equality

Winter 2007
Alana Conner Snibbe
Nonprofit Management • Corporate Social Responsiblity Diversity Training Doesn’t Work

How can companies hire and promote more women and minorities?

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