Filmmaker Mira Nair: The Global Storyteller
Mira Nair’s mantra is “If we don’t tell our stories, no one else will.” In her latest film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, she’s exploring her Lahori roots with her contemporary lifestyle…
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Filmmaker Mira Nair: The Global Storyteller
Mira Nair’s mantra is “If we don’t tell our stories, no one else will.” In her latest film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, she’s exploring her Lahori roots with her contemporary lifestyle…
Paul Polak: Testing New Funding Model for His Second Global Venture
Paul became known for making the treadle pump accessible and affordable for low-income markets. It was his first foray into “social business.” For the past three years, Paul has…
Connecting Everything: Cisco’s Padmasree Warrior
Cisco’s Chief Technology and Strategy Officer describes how the exponential growth of connectivity between people and devices, both mobile and network, will change commerce, business systems, and individual behavior. Despite…
Austin Goes Local
I’ve been fascinated by Austin, Texas, for a while now. It just seemed so creative and cool. But more importantly, it has become a mecca for the modern day cooperative…
The Richest Country has Left Millions Out in the Cold: American Winter
By Tessa Farnsworth Curry America is facing a problem and ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. Since the Great Recession in 2008 11.7 million people are still unemployed, we…
You Don’t Have to Go to College to Succeed. Really?
By Ben Thurman In 1997’s big hit, Good Will Hunting, Will Hunting scoffed, “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at…
Share my Dabba: The Tiffin Has Just Become More Social
A new campaign in Mumbai uses the famous lunchbox network to feed the street children of the city. Some would define it as “social innovation” – using an existing infrastructure…
Students Take on Social Entrepreneurship Early On
By Adam S. Poswolsky If extreme poverty is going to be eradicated in our lifetime, all sectors of society, especially young people, need to be mobilized. Nourish International, a social…
Don’t Want that Sandwich? Can’t sell it? Don’t throw it away, though!
Dana Frasz is a food entrepreneur. She wants to recycle food, taking the food that’s not consumed and putting it into the hands of those who cannot afford it. She…
Does Bangladesh’s Garment Industry Respect its Workers?
By Nisha Kumar Kulkarni Last month’s garment factory collapse in Savar, outside of Dhaka, is being coined as the worst industrial disaster in Bangladesh’s history. Though the police ordered the…
iPads for Schools? Not that simple. Ed-Tech Needs “Design Research.”
Kim Campbell and Hila Mehr Last week, gaming company Zynga announced the launch of a $1M accelerator for educational games in partnership with the NewSchools Venture Fund. Similarly, ed-tech incubator…
Sparking Innovation – in the middle of the Pacific
by Brittany Koteles Unreasonable at Sea (UaS), a first-time collaboration between Unreasonable Institute, Semester at Sea, and Stanford’s d. school, was born with the objective to accelerate companies that are…
Sustainability: Not Just Fashionable
THOUGHTS POST SKOLL WORLD FORUM: When it comes to sustainability, one of the things that has always nagged me about companies that “go green” is that it typically just means…
Crowdfunding Gets Specific: 10 New Platforms
by Brittany Koteles As a follow-up to yesterday’s piece on the explosion of crowdfunding in 2012, here’s a list of new platforms that connect crowdfunding to people, communities, and causes. …
Crowdfunding Capitalism: Likely to Keep Growing in 2013
By Brittany Koteles In 2012, crowdfunding platforms grew 81 percent, while venture capital investments fell for the first time in three years. While I’m not here to forecast the…
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