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.

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Date Author Section Category Summary
Winter 2005
Alessandra Bianchi
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing The Other 95 Percent

How a community foundation uses proxy voting to advance its mission.

Winter 2005
Cliff Terry
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing All Fired Up

How an insurance company helps its workers support their local fire departments.

Fall 2005
Deborah Doane
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity The Myth of CSR

As nice as it is to think that modern corporations can do well while also doing good, there are serious limitations that the market imposes on their CSR initiatives. In addition, the legal obligations of corporations to their shareholders further restrict CSR’s potential to help solve social and environmental problems. At some point, we should be asking ourselves whether or not we’ve been promoting a strategy more likely to lead to business as usual than to tackling the fundamental problems of our time. 

Fall 2005
Jonathan B. Levine
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity Sharing Power

How Merck and the WHO have sustained a fragile balance
of power in their battle against river blindness.

Summer 2005
Marguerite Rigoglioso
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity In Bad Times, It Pays to Be Good

A reputation for CSR may shield
companies from the public’s ire.

Summer 2005
Stuart L. Hart & Ted London
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity Developing Native Capability

What multinational corporations can learn from the base of the pyramid.

Summer 2005
Ricardo Sandoval
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity Block by Block

How one of the world’s largest companies builds loyalty among Mexico’s poor.

Spring 2005
Pamela Yatsko
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity Managing Medusa

A Hong Kong manufacturer brings business practices to social services in Asia. 

Spring 2005
Gerald Burstyn
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity Hidden Agenda

Corporations give away billions each year,
but what’s the real reason why?

Winter 2004
Wayne Dunn
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity Golden Opportunity

When a Canadian multinational laid off hundreds of
gold miners in South Africa, it went many extra
miles to help them get back on their feet.

Fall 2004
Matthew Schuerman
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity Behind the Glitter

Tiffany and Co. moves to get African
“conflict diamonds” out of its stores.

Fall 2004
Jan Chong
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity Determining Diversity

Do socially responsible funds ask the right questions?

Fall 2004
Debra E. Meyerson
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity The Tempered Radicals

How employees push their companies
– little by little – to be more socially responsible.

Summer 2004
Jan Chong
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity The Outsiders

Why some companies donate to charity.

Summer 2004
Miguel Unzueta
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity The Profitable Nonprofits

Almost half of revenue-seeking organizations are in the black.

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