Social entrepreneurship

Local initiatives—driven by necessity and resource constraints—offer scalable solutions for waste reduction, supply chain resilience, and environmental and social leadership.

How these institutions carefully curate connections and relationships to take ideas from the drawing board into the marketplace.

A great idea isn’t enough. Leaders must create an environment that allows teams to collaborate successfully over time.

People fear it will limit career opportunities and financial gain.

Nominal fees can help organizations have a greater impact.

We need measures to help people, animals, and plants survive the climate crisis.

The Chobani CEO and founder talks about the biggest challenges along the way. “I never thought about quitting,” he says.

One-fifth of the innovative solutions to fight the Covid-19 pandemic have emerged from low and middle-income countries, and these responses offer promising...

Business can't thrive in an environment of unhealthy employees, customers, and communities, an at-risk planet, and a fractured society. To transition...

It is widely accepted now that the vast amounts of data companies generate represents a tremendous repository of potential value. This value is monetary,...

For all of data's potential to address public challenges, most data generated today is collected by the private sector. Data collaboratives offer a way...

Social entrepreneurship has emerged over the past several decades as a way to identify and bring about potentially transformative societal improvements....

How these two important functions can work better together.

From restaurants to lead paint, data is making government more efficient.

Most executives accept that social and civic responsibilities are indispensable to doing good business; their enterprises won't survive if those responsibilities...

Joseph L. Badaracco, professor at Harvard Business School, describes responsible leadership as a good struggle.

Reprint: R1309H At its best, business is about innovating to meet society's needs and to build a profitable enterprise. But many corporate leaders are...

The global ambassador for Opportunity International--and a former CEO of Hewlett-Packard--writes that even among the most developed economies, national...

Factor social benefits and the use of resources into a company's value.