The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done. Pretty much anyone who has even peripheral involvement with the business world has heard of Peter F. Drucker, the “father of modern management.” In his lifetime (1909-2005) he published 39 books...
As social entrepreneurs, we all spend a fair bit of time explaining to the general public what it means to have a double bottom line (“What do you mean it isn’t just about profit?”). Throw into the mix an environmental component, thereby creating a triple bottom...
Lara Galinsky is a senior vice president at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests in and mentors social entrepreneurs so they can create high-impact solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Her career path wasn’t easy and it certainly wasn’t direct. But one...
If you have been thinking about venturing into the world of social entrepreneurship, take a few hours to read The Blue Sweater. Written by Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of Acumen Fund, the book offers an insightful, honest narrative of her journey into the economic...
Small loans can be life-changing. Between 2001 and 2008, author and journalist Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos traveled over the span of 21 months to the most impoverished parts of rural India to investigate the transformative capacity of microfinance in combating...
If you’ve read David Bornstein’s previous books, The Price of a Dream and How to Change the World (THE definitive publication on social innovators across the globe), odds are you’ve been waiting patiently for his latest oeuvre. This time around, he teams up with Susan...
