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
Summer 2006
Cathy L. Hartman & Edwin R. Stafford
Articles Environment • Corporate Social Responsiblity Chilling With Greenpeace, From the Inside Out

Climate change is a hot issue. To combat global warming and other environmental problems, Greenpeace’s strategy is both to protest against environmental offenders and to help them craft solutions to their ecological gaffes – often at the same time. Using this inside-out approach, Greenpeace catapulted Greenfreeze, an obscure ozone- and climate-safe refrigerant, into widespread use and launched the first Green Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, in 2000.

Spring 2006
Mark Kramer & John Kania
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity Creating Game-Changing CSR
Spring 2006
Mark Kramer & John Kania
Articles Nonprofit Management • Corporate Social Responsiblity A New Role for Nonprofits
Spring 2006
Marguerite Rigoglioso
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity Shipping Companies to the Rescue

Business steps in to help overtaxed airports in the wake of natural disasters.

Spring 2006
Dan Gordon
Articles Nonprofit Management • Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Giving Donors Control

A United Way affiliate has boosted fundraising by breaking the rules.

Spring 2006
Mark Kramer & John Kania
Articles Nonprofit Management • Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Changing the Game

Leading corporations switch from defense to offense in solving global problems.

Spring 2006
Alessandra Bianchi
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Rethinking Corporate Philanthropy

Exploiting core competencies is only half the story.

Spring 2006
Mark Dowie
Articles Environment • Corporate Social Responsiblity • Government The Hidden Cost of Paradise

Indigenous people are being displaced to create wilderness areas, to the detriment of all.

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

How an African-American banker is rebuilding her community.

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 Human Rights • Social Entrepreneurship • 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 Health Care • Nonprofit Management • 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
Ricardo Sandoval
Articles Economic Development • Corporate Social Responsiblity Block by Block

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

Summer 2005
Keith Epstein
Articles Corporate Social Responsiblity • Philanthropy & Responsible Investing Philanthropy, Inc.

How today’s corporate donors want their gifts to help the bottom line.

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