Center for Social Innovation

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Explore the latest thinking and ideas to address social and environmental challenges: articles, case studies, research papers, videos, podcasts...		Meet social innovators from the Stanford GSB community and leverage the management expertise of our students.		Participate in a week-long executive program, attend a conference, participate in the Public Management and Social Innovation Program (PM/SI) while a student at the GSB.

A Look into the Public Management and Social Innovation Program

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This is Social Innovation

A Tool Kit for Changing the World

A class brings together students from across Stanford to create and build products for some of the world's poorest people.

A Crash Course on Creativity

Professor Tina Seelig discusses the tools and conditions each of us has that allow us to increase our creativity.

IBM's "Frugal Innovation" Takes Root in Africa

Combining high and low tech, IBM's famous R&D lab tackles the challenges of a rapidly urbanizing continent.

Reinventing Anesthesia

Stephen Rudy, MBA '84, is trying to make surgery in the developing world a lot easier.

The Tough Math Behind Humanitarian Aid

A new study finds that a different approach to food-relief efforts in the developing world could save more lives.

Streamlining An "Expensive Democracy"

Nigeria's reform-minded central banker discusses government waste, austerity, and growth.

Hope and Hype in Myanmar

After 50 years of isolation the country is now at a pivotal moment in time, entering a new era of international relations, development, and potential progress.

Farm to Cup Merger Emphasizes Economic Empowerment

A grassroots student effort led by Caroline Mullen, MBA ’12, Catha Mullen, MBA ’13, and Monica Lewis, MBA ’12, now has even more impact through a merger with Pachamama Coffee Cooperative.

Bridging the Achievement Gap

Research led by Stanford Professor Geoffrey Cohen concludes that a simple intervention made with middle school Latino American students significantly reduced the achievement gap.

Giving the Gift of Our Time to Others

Research shows that spending time on others makes people feel like they have done a lot with their time — and the more they feel they have done with their time, the more time they will feel they have.

community in action

Social Innovation Fellow, Zachary Levine, MBA '10, admitted into 100Kin10.org
Social Innovation Fellow, Brenden Millstein, MBA '10, named Forbes 30 Under 30
Social Innovation Fellow, Reid Saaris, MBA '10 receives Google’s Global Impact Award
Brenden Millstein, MBA '10, is one of Bloomberg's top 25 Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs.
Toure McCluskey, MBA '05, receives the 2012 Echoing Green fellowship.
The African Leadership Academy, co-founded by Chris Bradford (MBA '06, Siebel Scholar '05) and Fred Swaniker (MBA '04), has been honored with the inaugural Siebel Scholars Impact Award.