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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Audio Recordings of Recent Events & Speakers

Maggie Neale: Negotiation and the Psychology of the Deal

Professor Margaret Neale explores many of the beliefs that surround negotiation “best practices” in an attempt to distinguish the reality from wishful (or wrong-headed) thinking.

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Bob Sutton: The No Asshole Rule

Professor Robert Sutton talks about the main ideas from his new best-selling book The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t.

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Heather McLeod Grant: What Makes Great Nonprofits Great?
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Heather McLeod Grant shares some of the groundbreaking research explored in her co-authored book Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits

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Chip Heath: Missions that Really Inspire

In this provocative session from the 2nd annual Nonprofit Management Institute, Chip Heath, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, discusses ways to craft a mission statement that inspires people and helps them make important decisions. 

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Venture Models: Past and Future - Katherine Fulton, President, Monitor Institute
44:48 minutes
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Keynote speaker Katherine Fulton looks back over a decade of rapid change in the field of philanthropy, and challenges foundations to find the new sweet spots that will enable them to deliver social change in an ever-changing world. From the 2007 event Finding Philanthropy’s New Sweet Spot.

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Venture Models: Past and Future - Matthew Bishop, The Economist
12:49 minutes
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Matthew Bishop looks at the industrial revolution taking place in philanthropy and reacts to Katherine Fulton’s remarks about the past and future of philanthropy. From the 2007 event Finding Philanthropy’s New Sweet Spot.

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Venture Models: Past and Future - Clara Miller, President and CEO, Nonprofit Finance Fund
15:14 minutes
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Clara Miller shares her views on the limitations of venture philanthropy today and reacts to Katherine Fulton’s remarks about the past and future of philanthropy. From the 2007 event Finding Philanthropy’s New Sweet Spot.

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Venture Models: Past and Future - Kim Smith, Co-Founder, NewSchools Venture Fund
12:34 minutes
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Kim Smith shares her organization’s approach to delivering impact and comments on Katherine Fulton’s remarks on the past and future of philanthropy. From the 2007 event Finding Philanthropy’s New Sweet Spot.

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Social Entrepreneurship Day Panel 2008

A photo gallery of the second annual Social Entrepreneurship Day panel on the Stanford University campus.

More than 150 people gathered at this standing-room-only event, which featured a lively discussion on ways to fund social enterprises. 

At the end of the panel, one aspiring entrepreneur asked, “At what stage do the funders come in when funding a social venture, and what are they looking for?”

Click here to hear how Jenny Shilling Stein, Executive Director of the Draper Richards Foundation, answered this question.

Click here to hear how Amy Clark, Global Fellows Program Leader of Ashoka, answered this question.

Click here to download an audio file of the entire discussion. 

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Jessica Jackley Flannery, Co-Founder and Director of Business Development of Kiva.org

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Audience members read the Stanford Social Innovation Review while waiting for the discussion to begin. 

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Jessica Jackley Flannery recounts how she “did whatever it took” to finance Kiva.org.

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The audience spills into an adjoining room.

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Kriss Deiglmeier, Executive Director of the Center for Social Innovation, GSB

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Kriss Deiglmeier invites audience members to ask the panelists questions. 

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The panel: moderator Kriss Deiglmeier, Jenny Shilling Stein, Jessica Jackley Flannery, Amy Clark, Suzanne McKechnie Klahr

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Jenny Shilling Stein, Executive Director of the Draper Richards Foundation

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Jenny Shilling Stein advises entrepreneurs to do their research before meeting with her. 

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Panelists: Jenny Shilling Stein, Jessica Jackley Flannery, Amy Clark, Suzanne McKechnie Klahr

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Suzanne McKechnie Klahr, Founder of BUILD and an Ashoka Fellow

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Panelists: Jenny Shilling Stein, Jessica Jackley Flannery, Amy Clark, and Suzanne McKechnie Klahr

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Jenny Shilling Stein, Executive Director of the Draper Richards Foundation

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Jenny Shilling Stein engages with audience members. 

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Amy Clark, Global Fellows Program Leader, Ashoka, explains the Ashoka Fellows Program in more detail.

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Suzanne McKechnie Klahr, Founder of BUILD and an Ashoka Fellow, fields questions from the audience.

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Kriss Deiglmeier and Jenny Shilling Stein advise attendees.