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Human Rights
Inside the Business of Modern Sex Slavery
![[photo - Janet Tafel]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/janet.jpg "[photo - Janet Tafel]")
Janet Tafel talks about the work Hagar USA is doing to help vulnerable members of society in South East Asia develop productive and meaningful lives.
In the United States today, two-thirds of African American college undergrads are women, and they are going on to excel in business, particularly in entrepreneurship, says visiting scholar Katherine Phillips.
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“One death is a tragedy; 1 million is a statistic,” Joseph Stalin is supposed to have said. The more people we see suffering, the less we care.
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in consumer familiarity and sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers. By failing to address these problems, industry confidence in Fair Trade coffee is slipping.
In the United States today, two-thirds of African American college undergrads are women, and they are going on to excel in business, particularly in entrepreneurship, says visiting scholar Katherine Phillips.
As Japan shifts from disaster relief to rebuilding, GSB alumni see opportunities for change and renewal.
Sustainable Harvest grows a new supply chain.
Habitat International has grown its bottom line using a largely disabled workforce.
Direct participation by African villagers proves that process matters, even when outcomes don’t change.
Computer imaging technology gets put to work to fight child porn fast—five-millisecond-fast.
The Tahirih Justice Center multiplies its impact by creatively using pro bono attorneys.
While more money may translate to a higher valuation of oneself, when it comes to happiness, money is no indicator.
In the United States today, two-thirds of African American college undergrads are women, and they are going on to excel in business, particularly in entrepreneurship, says visiting scholar Katherine Phillips.
As Japan shifts from disaster relief to rebuilding, GSB alumni see opportunities for change and renewal.
The pay gap is narrowing between men and women in the workplace as is the percent of time men and women spend on family duties, but workplace policies have not caught up with these new realities, Professor Myra Strober says in an essay in U.S. Banker.
![[photo - Photo: Dr. Paul Auerbach]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/auerbach.jpg "[photo - Photo: Dr. Paul Auerbach]")
When Paul Auerbach arrived in Haiti, after the January 2010 earthquake, he faced a sea of death and misery the likes of which he'd never seen. A member of Stanford Emergency Medicine's rapid response team under the auspices of International Medical Corps, Auerbach, Sloan '89, eventually assumed the role of lead physician coordinating the medical and logistical efforts of teams from around the globe.
Troubled by the fact that an estimated 20,000 educated professionals leave Africa every year, Fred Swaniker, MBA '04 and Chris Bradford, MBA '05 founded the African Leadership Academy in Johannsburg, a secondary school they hope will help change the face of the continent.
"No single generation has ever witnessed so much change in a lifetime," SEIU President Andy Stern told a Business School audience, and unions must be part of that change.
![[photo - on a study trip to guatemala]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/article_april14_0_1.jpg "[photo - on a study trip to guatemala]")
Blythe Yee, MBA '09, recalls a service learning trip she and her classmates took to examine the coffee market in Guatemala, where organic and Fair Trade coffee are becoming the future of the industry as more and more people look for sustainable and humane ways to enjoy their morning brew.
![[photo - Tony Prophet]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Hewlett-Packard%20_0.jpg "[photo - Tony Prophet]")
Hewlett-Packard is finding that taking responsibility for reducing the negative impacts on the environment of its entire supply chain is "proving right for the bottom line of our company and clients." An HP executive shared the company's progress at a conference on building environmentally sustainable and socially responsible supply chain networks.
![[photo - Hayagreeva Rao]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/hayagreeva_0.jpg "[photo - Hayagreeva Rao]")
Consumers can wield great influence over working conditions under which goods are manufactured, Professor Huggy Rao told a Stanford audience. “You’ve got to influence consumers so they’re willing to pay more,” he said.
![[photo - Leslie Lamb]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Leslie_Lam_0.jpg "[photo - Leslie Lamb]")
With the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina fresh on everyone's mind, members of humanitarian relief organizations, along with corporate and academic supply chain management experts, gathered at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to exchange ideas and best practices aimed at improving the effectiveness of major international disaster efforts.
“One death is a tragedy; 1 million is a statistic,” Joseph Stalin is supposed to have said. The more people we see suffering, the less we care.
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in consumer familiarity and sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers. By failing to address these problems, industry confidence in Fair Trade coffee is slipping.
Sustainable Harvest grows a new supply chain.
Habitat International has grown its bottom line using a largely disabled workforce.
Direct participation by African villagers proves that process matters, even when outcomes don’t change.
Computer imaging technology gets put to work to fight child porn fast—five-millisecond-fast.
The Tahirih Justice Center multiplies its impact by creatively using pro bono attorneys.
While more money may translate to a higher valuation of oneself, when it comes to happiness, money is no indicator.
Throughout history, acts of hatred have plagued communities and dominated media attention. The website Not In Our Town is working to combat that by broadcasting anti-hate stories and campaigns.
CREATIVE COMMUNITY ORGANIZING: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice by Si Kahn
The author details a Web that tells stories and exposes human injustice and trauma rather than gossip. She proposes this exposure will help drive the change that is needed.
We must actively withhold support when we see the government acting in a way counter to our ideals and its own. Those of us who supported the President’s election because we share his basic principles and values should express that support by remaining independent and criticizing when necessary, rather than by becoming supplicants to or apologists for the people we put in office. That’s an idea relevant to each and all of us as citizens.
The Internet has the potential to do a lot of good in the world, but we must not ignore the emerging strategies of negative influence.
Internet tech tools are mobilizing collective action and revolutionizing ways to start a revolution.
A youth summit discusses online platforms as a means of catalyzing social change.
Expect a battle between a cause-wired citizenry and governments that want to block the free flow of information.
Governments are banning the digital flow of information on human rights abuses.
Janet Tafel talks about the work Hagar USA is doing to help vulnerable members of society in South East Asia develop productive and meaningful lives.
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![[photo - Siddharth Kara]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/kara.jpg "[photo - Siddharth Kara]")
Siddharth Kara exposes the mechanisms behind the little-understood industry of sex trafficking.
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![[photo - Tim Williamson]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3642%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Tim Williamson]")
Tim Williamson, the founder of The Idea Village, shares how his nonprofit has been helping rebuild New Orleans, and the progress inspired by a powerful network of talented individuals.
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![[photo - Gavin Newsom]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3615%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Gavin Newsom]")
San Francisco Mayer Gavin Newsom tells of the courage and persistence it takes as a leader to make real social change.
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![[photo - Paul Farmer]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3487%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Paul Farmer]")
Paul Farmer talks about how his Boston-based organization, Partners In Health, is using donor dollars and the lessons learned from work in Haiti to scale up health care services in war-torn Rwanda.
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![[photo - Lynne Patterson]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3289.jpg "[photo - Lynne Patterson]")
Lynn Patterson talks about how she helped create Pro Mujer, an international microfinance and women's development network in Latin America.
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![[photo - Sakena Yacoobi]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3508.jpg "[photo - Sakena Yacoobi]")
Sakena Yacoobi explains how with only $20,000 she founded an organization that supports home schools for more than 350,000 Afghan women and girls.
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![[photo - Stuart Smolkin]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3227.jpg "[photo - Stuart Smolkin]")
Business executive Stuart Smolkin offers lessons on disaster preparedness from his experience getting a company up and running within 30 days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
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![[photo - Maria Eitel]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3239%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Maria Eitel]")
Nike Foundation President Maria Eitel talks about how her organization creates economic opportunities for adolescent girls around the world as a means of alleviating poverty.
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![[photo - Peter Eigen]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/3220%5B1%5D.jpg "[photo - Peter Eigen]")
Corruption fighter Peter Eigen describes strategies that companies, governments and citizens can use to break the cycle of poverty.
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![[Video-Gloria Steinem: Ms. at 40 and the Future of Feminism]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/2qhO3t3ZPZ8/0.jpg "[Video-Gloria Steinem: Ms. at 40 and the Future of Feminism]")
Stanford welcomes Gloria Steinem, co-founder and first editor of Ms. Magazine, in celebration of Ms.'s 40th anniversary. Steinem reflected on Ms. Magazine's role over forty years and looked ahead to what feminism may mean for future generations.
![[Video-Gloria Steinem at Stanford: The Feminist Struggle Continues]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/N9yrEglT84c/0.jpg "[Video-Gloria Steinem at Stanford: The Feminist Struggle Continues]")
Author and activist Gloria Steinem challenged a Stanford audience to fight social injustice with outrageous acts, and offered several targets in the struggle for equal rights.
![[Video-Say What You Think Then Take Action]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/u9j4QKIadk4/0.jpg "[Video-Say What You Think Then Take Action]")
San Francisco's young and charismatic mayor, Gavin Newsom, has suffered his share of punches for taking bold positions on controversial issues. In this Stanford Center for Social Innovation-sponsored talk, Newsom tells of the courage and persistence it takes to make real social change as a leader.
![[Video-Stanford's Guatemala Service Learning Trip, 2008-1]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/zGd1AhT0Ghk/0.jpg "[Video-Stanford's Guatemala Service Learning Trip, 2008-1]")
On a service learning trip to Guatemala, John Joseph, MBA '08, and classmates visited small producers right up to the Starbucks' organization, as well as NGOs like As Green As It Gets.
![[Video-Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-4]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/F2_5iA9pXc0/0.jpg "[Video-Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-4]")
Always Staying Informed: For Logan Deans, MBA '09, seeing the generation that went through apartheid gave him a sense of its dedication to learning and to always staying informed.
![[Video-Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-3]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/JhQxocrYUHk/0.jpg "[Video-Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-3]")
Strong Reaction to Apartheid: During the trip to South Africa, the most striking thing for Tsai, a native of Taiwan, was the legacy of apartheid.
![[Video-Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-2]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/fcxmk31q1QE/0.jpg "[Video-Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-2]")
Students Helped Each Other Out: It wasn't all smooth sailing on the trip. When Tsai lost her luggage her classmates stepped in to help out.
![[Video-Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-1]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/rv9QG3DhKUo/0.jpg "[Video-Stanford's South Africa Service Learning Trip, 2008-1]")
South Africa Brought Students Closer: Pamela Tsai, Class of '09, and other Stanford students met with entrepreneurs in South Africa. The trip brought a closer bond between the MBAs, an experience that "felt like a big family traveling together."
![[Video-International Coffee Markets - Panel Discussion]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/BxJ64R9SFns/0.jpg "[Video-International Coffee Markets - Panel Discussion]")
Over 125 million people rely on coffee for their livelihood. What are Starbucks and the Fair Trade certification doing to help them out of the coffee crisis? This panel describes the mechanics of the global coffee crisis and explores strategies to address sustainability issues.
![[Video-Corporate Social Responsibility]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/yK8mlncF_5k/0.jpg "[Video-Corporate Social Responsibility]")
In the past few years, several international reporting standards have emerged. But are they actually changing corporate behavior? This panel explores the effectiveness of current efforts to improve and monitor labor conditions abroad.
Stanford welcomes Gloria Steinem, co-founder and first editor of Ms. Magazine, in celebration of Ms.'s 40th anniversary. Steinem reflected on Ms. Magazine's role over forty years and looked ahead to what feminism may mean for future generations.
Author and activist Gloria Steinem challenged a Stanford audience to fight social injustice with outrageous acts, and offered several targets in the struggle for equal rights.
Janet Tafel talks about the work Hagar USA is doing to help vulnerable members of society in South East Asia develop productive and meaningful lives.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Siddharth Kara exposes the mechanisms behind the little-understood industry of sex trafficking.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Tim Williamson, the founder of The Idea Village, shares how his nonprofit has been helping rebuild New Orleans, and the progress inspired by a powerful network of talented individuals.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
San Francisco Mayer Gavin Newsom tells of the courage and persistence it takes as a leader to make real social change.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Paul Farmer talks about how his Boston-based organization, Partners In Health, is using donor dollars and the lessons learned from work in Haiti to scale up health care services in war-torn Rwanda.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Lynn Patterson talks about how she helped create Pro Mujer, an international microfinance and women's development network in Latin America.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Sakena Yacoobi explains how with only $20,000 she founded an organization that supports home schools for more than 350,000 Afghan women and girls.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
San Francisco's young and charismatic mayor, Gavin Newsom, has suffered his share of punches for taking bold positions on controversial issues. In this Stanford Center for Social Innovation-sponsored talk, Newsom tells of the courage and persistence it takes to make real social change as a leader.
![[photo - Glenn R. Carroll]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/carroll-glenn-r_0.jpg "[photo - Glenn R. Carroll]")
Two nonprofits, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), were created in 1999 and 2000, respectively, to monitor factories around the world for sweatshop-related infractions. The two organizations had similar goals, but very different histories, strategies, and ways of operating. Their shared history has been controversial and tumultuous.
![[photo - Jeffrey Pfeffer]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/pfeffer-jeffrey_2.jpg "[photo - Jeffrey Pfeffer]")
In 1991, Frances Conley, the first female, tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the United States, resigned from her position at Stanford Medical School over the appointment of a new department chair who was known for sexual harassment. As she becomes thrust into the media limelight, she wonders what she should do next.
![[photo - Laura K. Arrillaga]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/arrillaga-laura-kathryne_3.jpg "[photo - Laura K. Arrillaga]")
The CEO of the Global Fund for Women, an organization that seeds and supports women’s rights groups, must examine how to guide the fund’s growth without having it lose its connections with donors and grantees. She also wonders how the fund could do better at assessing grant outcomes and sharing success stories.
![[photo - Laura K. Arrillaga]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/arrillaga-laura-kathryne_2.jpg "[photo - Laura K. Arrillaga]")
The September 11th Fund was created to support the short- and long-term needs of the people and communities affected by the World Trade Center tragedy. Many foundation leaders evaluated the difficult lessons learned in interacting with the media, and wondered how they could better use communication strategies to demonstrate their accountability.
In 1998, the chief executive of Mobil in Indonesia considered how he should respond to allegations that Mobil had been complicit in human rights abuses. The cases reflect on the challenges of managing operations in a place like Aceh.
![[photo - Michael T. Hannan]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/hannan-michael_0.jpg "[photo - Michael T. Hannan]")
In 1999, the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle were sidelined by people protesting against the organization and issues of free trade. The case describes the nature of the protests, and the WTO’s dispute resolution process.
![[photo - H. Irving Grousbeck]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/grousbeck-harold-irving.jpg "[photo - H. Irving Grousbeck]")
The case offers a view into day-to-day management issues faced by entrepreneurs managing a growing business. The focus is the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company, which had to address a sexual harassment lawsuit and other ethical dilemmas.
Two nonprofits, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), were created in 1999 and 2000, respectively, to monitor factories around the world for sweatshop-related infractions. The two organizations had similar goals, but very different histories, strategies, and ways of operating. Their shared history has been controversial and tumultuous.
In 1991, Frances Conley, the first female, tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the United States, resigned from her position at Stanford Medical School over the appointment of a new department chair who was known for sexual harassment. As she becomes thrust into the media limelight, she wonders what she should do next.
The CEO of the Global Fund for Women, an organization that seeds and supports women’s rights groups, must examine how to guide the fund’s growth without having it lose its connections with donors and grantees. She also wonders how the fund could do better at assessing grant outcomes and sharing success stories.
The September 11th Fund was created to support the short- and long-term needs of the people and communities affected by the World Trade Center tragedy. Many foundation leaders evaluated the difficult lessons learned in interacting with the media, and wondered how they could better use communication strategies to demonstrate their accountability.
In 1998, the chief executive of Mobil in Indonesia considered how he should respond to allegations that Mobil had been complicit in human rights abuses. The cases reflect on the challenges of managing operations in a place like Aceh.
In 1999, the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle were sidelined by people protesting against the organization and issues of free trade. The case describes the nature of the protests, and the WTO’s dispute resolution process.
The case offers a view into day-to-day management issues faced by entrepreneurs managing a growing business. The focus is the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company, which had to address a sexual harassment lawsuit and other ethical dilemmas.
![[photo - Joanne Martin]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/martin-joanne_3.jpg "[photo - Joanne Martin]")
Although both feminist theory and critical theory focus on social and economic inequalities, and both have an agenda of promoting system change, these fields of inquiry have developed separately and seldom draw on each other's work. This paper argues that synergies between these two fields could, and should, be explored.
![[photo - Sarah Soule]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/soule-sarah-a_2.jpg "[photo - Sarah Soule]")
The authors reexamine the relationship between protest and policy change at the agenda-setting stage of policymaking. They find that protest, issue legitimacy, and issue competition account for variation in the number of congressional hearings granted to rights issues.
![[photo - Ernesto Dal Bo]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/dalbo_ernesto.jpg "[photo - Ernesto Dal Bo]")
The authors present a model where a long-run player uses money transfers and threats to influence the decisions of a sequence of short-run players. The model is useful for the debate around judicial corruption.
![[photo - Brian S. Lowery]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/lowery-brian_4.jpg "[photo - Brian S. Lowery]")
Negative stereotypes about various racial groups bombard us every day in the mass media and deposit their residue deep into our minds, often without our realizing it, says Brian Lowery.
![[photo - Joanne Martin]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/martin-joanne_5.jpg "[photo - Joanne Martin]")
The paper examines micro-processes that undermine the formal power of high-ranking women in a male-dominated organization. It shows how the capacity of these women to reduce systemic causes of gender inequality is therefore more limited than it might appear.
![[photo - Roderick Kramer]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/kramer-roderick-m_1.jpg "[photo - Roderick Kramer]")
In this seminar, we explore the nature of human happiness from psychological perspectives, and how such knowledge can be applied in personal and business contexts. To illustrate the ideas discussed, we examine in detail a number of fascinating individuals, including Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, venture capitalist Tom Perkins, Steven Spielberg, Martha Stewart, and the Nobel physicist Richard Feynman.
![[photo - Sarah Soule]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/soule-sarah-a_4.jpg "[photo - Sarah Soule]")
This course focuses on women's working experiences in managerial and professional positions in business and some nonprofit organizations. Using business cases, small group work, videos, lectures, and class discussions, we examine a wide variety of career-related gender issues.
![[photo - Garth Saloner]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/shaw-kathryn.jpg "[photo - Garth Saloner]")
This seminar will showcase successful women entrepreneurs and the challenges they encountered on the paths to success such as finding funding, dealing with different communication styles, and balancing work and lifestyle.
Seminar participants will study mini-cases, engage in panel discussions and hear from experienced entrepreneurs.
Dave DeForest-Stalls wants to help kids stay out of gangs. He's providing mentorship and hip ways to keep youth on the straight and narrow.
![[photo - Federico Lozano]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/fede.jpg "[photo - Federico Lozano]")
Federico Lozano is working to alleviate poverty by connecting poor, semi-skilled laborers from the developing world with jobs in the developed world.
![[photo - Daniel Grossman]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Danielgrossman.jpg "[photo - Daniel Grossman]")
Daniel Grossman's Wild Planet creates toys that parents love as much as kids. His aim is to inspire learning and inventiveness.
Stanford welcomes Gloria Steinem, co-founder and first editor of Ms. Magazine, in celebration of Ms.'s 40th anniversary. Steinem reflected on Ms. Magazine's role over forty years and looked ahead to what feminism may mean for future generations.
Author and activist Gloria Steinem challenged a Stanford audience to fight social injustice with outrageous acts, and offered several targets in the struggle for equal rights.
“One death is a tragedy; 1 million is a statistic,” Joseph Stalin is supposed to have said. The more people we see suffering, the less we care.
Fair Trade-certified coffee is growing in consumer familiarity and sales, but strict certification requirements are resulting in uneven economic advantages for coffee growers and lower quality coffee for consumers. By failing to address these problems, industry confidence in Fair Trade coffee is slipping.
In the United States today, two-thirds of African American college undergrads are women, and they are going on to excel in business, particularly in entrepreneurship, says visiting scholar Katherine Phillips.
As Japan shifts from disaster relief to rebuilding, GSB alumni see opportunities for change and renewal.
Sustainable Harvest grows a new supply chain.
Habitat International has grown its bottom line using a largely disabled workforce.
Direct participation by African villagers proves that process matters, even when outcomes don’t change.
Computer imaging technology gets put to work to fight child porn fast—five-millisecond-fast.
