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Audio lectures brought to you by Social Innovation Conversations, co-hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review's Managing Editor Eric Nee.

Jane Chen on social entrepreneurship.

Health

Solving Infant Mortality with Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneur Jane Chen discusses the challenges and rewards of the developing an innovative product, and shares insights on the attitudes that allow entrepreneurs to find success.

Featuring Jane Chen | Aug. 8, 2011 | 32 minutes
 
Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler on the need for socially responsible companies in the food industry.

Health

Food Industry and Global Health

Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler discusses how we define the cultural norm for food consumption and what role our government should play in regulating food companies.

Featuring David Kessler | Aug. 5, 2011 | 50 minutes
 
Jennifer Lynn Aaker on social responsibility in daily life

Technology & Design

Creating Infectious Action

Jennifer Lynn Aaker discusses a repeatable method that we can follow to get people to take action, but perhaps even more important, to influence people to get others to take action as well.

Featuring Jennifer Lynn Aaker | Aug. 4, 2011 | 10 minutes
 
CDC Deputy Director for Policy and Communication Donald Shriber discusses taking on global health

Health

Global Health Speaker Series

CDC Deputy Director for Policy and Communication Donald Shriber speaks about how the agency coordinates and manages its efforts and resources to respond to emerging threats to global health.

Featuring Donald Shriber | Jul. 29, 2011 | 41 minutes
 

Health

The Role of the Voluntary Sector in the Era of Health Reform

Dr. David Shern, CEO of Mental Health America, and Father Larry Snyder, President of Catholic Charities USA, discuss the potential of nonprofits as catalysts for innovation in health care reform.

Featuring David Shern & Larry Snyder | Jul. 28, 2011 | 29 minutes
 
Jean Oelwang on what nonprofit management has to learn from the private sector.

Measuring Social Impact

Leveraging Business Assets in Nonprofit

Jean Oelwang, CEO of Virgin Unite, argues that nonprofit organizations have a lot to learn from the business practices of the private sector if they wish to maximize their impact.

Featuring Jean Oelwang | Jul. 27, 2011 | 64 minutes
 
 Former Hewlett Packard VP Debra Dunn on socially responsible companies in the technology industry.

Business

Stakeholders in Corporate Social Responsibility

Former Hewlett Packard VP Debra Dunn talks about the technology company’s “DNA for CSR,” and how the firm engages with stakeholders to be good citizens and help improve communities around the world.

Featuring Debra Dunn | Jul. 8, 2011 | 37 minutes
 
 Stanford Professor Robert Proctor on the tobacco industry and global health.

Health

Global Health Speaker Series

Stanford Professor Robert Proctor presents scholarly research and advocates for pressure against the forces of the tobacco industry.

Featuring Robert Proctor | Jun. 29, 2011 | 47 minutes
 
Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, on social entrepreneurship

Nonprofits

Promoting Social Entrepreneurship Among Youth

Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, identifies key skills of change makers and lays out a plan to teach these skills around the world.

Featuring Bill Drayton | Jun. 27, 2011 | 49 minutes
 

Water

Environmental Sustainability with World Water

Experts discuss why there are so few investments in water, where the opportunities lie for entrepreneurs and information technology, and what cleantech startups need to know about this sector.

Featuring an MIT/Stanford Venture Lab Event Panel | Jun. 27, 2011 | 78 minutes