In our Big Ideas series, we check in regularly with top thinkers in the field of social innovation. We want to know what they're working on, what questions they're wrestling with, and what opportunities and challenges they see up ahead for the sector. Alan ...
Here's the second installment of our Big Ideas feature -- in which we check in regularly with big thinkers in the field of social innovation. We want to know what they're working on, what questions they're wrestling with, and what opportunities and challenges ...
Keeping with the creativity theme from last week, what can we do to augment our creative powers? One thing we know from the field of neuroscience is that, unlike computers, the brain is very slow at individual processing. In one second, a computer ...
Yesterday I wrote a post about the "creativity crisis" recently reported by Newsweek. Over the past 20 years, American children have steadily lost ground on a long-standing creativity assessment that's strongly associated with entrepreneurship and invention. This is a serious problem. I've spent ...
If you're interested in children, education, social innovation, or, for that matter, the future of America, Newsweek's recent cover story on the "creativity crisis" by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman is a must read. It makes a powerful argument that our system of ...
Kim Scheinberg has a habit she can't seem to kick: investing in social entrepreneurs who have business ideas to change the world. The problem is she doesn't enjoy haggling over percentage points when she's dealing with start-up entrepreneurs who are desperate for cash ...
Kristin Ivie, social innovation program manager for the Case Foundation, recently put together a helpful list of seven tips for changemakers and idealists at Social Citizens. There's one suggestion, however—in tip #2—that I must disagree with: that changemakers should spend 95% of their ...
Sometimes you have to put two stories side by side to highlight the strange tradeoffs we make every day in a complex world. Today, in the New York Times, for example, we find one story that chronicles how Transocean and BP have long ...
The field of social entrepreneurship is still in its infancy, so naturally writers on the subject find plenty to disagree about, right down to basic definitions. Case in point: Carl Schramm, the CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, wrote an article this spring for ...
“Capitalism used to be easy,” writes R. Paul Herman in the opening line of his new book, The HIP (Human Impact+Profit) Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World. Businesses, he argues, used to get away with jeopardizing the long-term health and ...