Cheryl Heller (Chair of the new Masters Program at the SVA, Design for Social Innovation and Chair of PopTech) explains what many entrepreneurs are doing wrong when it comes to design thinking.
Once upon a time, Paseka was sitting on the toilet and had a “Eureka!” moment. We could be saving 72 Billion Gallons of water per year- the equivalent of 10,000 Olympic swimming pools.
Devi says he has always had an entrepreneurial streak. "The desire to create something that will outlive me & create greater social impact has been burning inside me." Now he's empowering women farmers in India.
We’ve found a crowdsourced toolbox with more than 600 resources to get you out of decision paralysis and moving toward tackling the pressing tasks at hand.
Alejandro grew up in the family tradition of candy manufacturing. He's using his family business to reactivate the local economy and empower farmers throughout Mexico.
For humans to be sustainable, we need a world filled with more people who are creative, visual, passionate, broadly curious, generalists, integrators, listeners, systems thinkers and doers, and people who know how to create lives filled with both success and purpose
There is a false choice often being made between high impact and high returns. We can have both. In fact, we must achieve both to achieve scale and unlock the greatest wealth creation opportunity of our time. It just so happens to be a 10 Trillion dollar market!
If you’re serious about global social innovation, there's a new book that opens a window into how it happens, why it works, what "stuff" you need to succeed at it and what it feels like.
Here are a few of the lessons I’ve learned as I stumbled my way through the world of social innovation. I hope some of these prove useful as you travel your own path.
Watch as Rajesh Anandan intimately shares his own journey from the private sector into one of the largest aid organizations on earth. His difficulties with innovation, his recommendations to startups working with multinationals, and secrets on how to hit scale are all revealed in this interview.
The greatest truth is this: if the health of the individual is not cared for then all the big ideas die when the thinker becomes too ill or tired or burned-out to carry them out. The big thinkers are going to need health on their side to get it done.
Economists have it all wrong. The only effective large-scale answer to extreme poverty is to stimulate rapid scalable growth. Here are three ways to end poverty and limitless opportunities for you to participate.
Our Astronaut/Fighter Pilot Scribe tells the story of crashing & burning (literally!) and how this changed the way he looks at risk & innovation forever.