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Center for Social Innovation Updates
TARP Head Allison Challenges the Banking Industry
11/17/2009
Banking industry executives need to look broadly at chanbes to reform the American financial system, says Herbert Allison, MBA '71, the head of the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Facing the Environment
08/28/2009
China faces daunting environmental and energy resource challenges.
Stanford MBA students have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet with government officials, state-owned enterprises, and Western companies to learn how the country's policies are aiming for a better balance between humans and nature.
Stanford Hosts Silicon Valley Roundtable for White House Office of Social Innovation
06/23/2009
White House Office of Social Innovation officials gathered with Silicon Valley philanthropy, business, and nonprofit leaders in a roundtable convened by the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Stanford Social Innovation Fellowships Awarded to Two MBA Students’ Ventures
06/08/2009
Graduating MBA students Federico Lozano Fernandez and Jayampathy "Chari" Ratwatte Jr are the first recipients of Stanford Social Innovation Fellowships for their nonprofit ventures to serve disadvantaged populations in Mexico and Sri Lanka, respectively.
Hard-wire Ethical Values in Nonprofits
06/03/2009
In the summer 2009 issue, two Stanford Law School scholars examine the ethical issues that arise specifically in the nonprofit sector. Also in this issue, GSB coauthors Bethany Coates and Garth Saloner spotlight Kiva's path to becoming a nonprofit, and advantages as well as the costs of being 501(c)(3).
The Cool and the Green: Expo Shows Off Innovative Design
04/10/2009
Doing more for less was the theme of the 2009 Cool Product Expo, an exhibition of innovative products and services.
Enhancing Business Education for Rural Entrepreneurs
04/04/2009
When Stanford Graduate School of Business students Scott Raymond and Katherine Boas returned from a December 2006 service learning experience to Thailand and Cambodia, they brought back more than souvenirs and class credit. What they created volunteering with a program that helps to alleviate poverty in Thailand has now been duplicated at microlending organizations around the world.
Business Tools to Accelerate Social Change
04/04/2009
The Family Service Agency of San Mateo, a social services organization, has been helping families and children for 59 years. It has plenty of experience delivering educational and financial services to thousands of low-income recipients, but what it didn’t have was in-house business expertise. A program of the Stanford Center for Social Innovation has helped change that.
Time IS Money When You're Paid by the Hour
04/02/2009
Business School Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer and doctoral student Sanford E. DeVoe found that people who are used to being paid by the hour start thinking of time as a commodity almost equal to cash. And given the choice as to whether they'll take time or greenbills, they'll usually take the latter—meaning they're nearly always willing to put in more hours to get the pay.
This Isn't Your Father's Daytona Beach
04/01/2009
Spring Break at the Business School used to mean golf on the Pacific Coast, skiing in the Sierra, or surfing in Hawaii. But today’s MBA students are more likely to devote that glorious 10-day hiatus to serious pursuits. Last spring found Stanford MBA students learning by example from social entrepreneurs in Brazil, gutting a house in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, and experimenting with prototype water distribution systems in rural Myanmar.
A Home Within for Foster Children Near You Soon
03/03/2009
Dr. Toni Heineman started A Home Within in San Francisco to heal the chronic loss of foster children. A clinical psychologist turned social entrepreneur, she partnered with the Stanford Alumni Consulting Team (ACT) to plan and organize the growth of the organization.
A Turnaround Plan for NOLA schools
02/02/2009
Take one visionary educator, one Stanford Graduate School of Business summer intern and one troubled school district and you get a long way toward helping raise educational standards in New Orleans.
Stanford Business School Launches New Fellowship for MBA Graduates Launching Social Ventures
12/04/2008
Commitment to social entrepreneurship by a growing number of Stanford
Graduate School of Business students has inspired the School to create
a new fellowship award that will provide substantial financial and
strategic support to graduates starting social ventures.
Aspen Institute Names Baron Winner of Lifetime Achievement Award
11/01/2008
The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education has announced that Stanford Graduate School of Business professor David Baron is the winner of the 2008 Faculty Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award was among several given at the annual recognition, dubbed the “Oscars of the business school world” by the Financial Times. The event celebrates MBA faculty who have demonstrated leadership and risk-taking in integrating social and environment issues into academic research, educational programs and business practice.
Faculty Honors Patell for Service and Achievement
03/01/2007
James Patell, who joined the Business School faculty 32 years ago as an accounting professor with a degree in marine architecture, is the 2007 recipient of the Robert T. Davis award, presented by the School's faculty to recognize an individual for a lifetime of service and achievement.
Patell Honored by Haas Center for Service
03/01/2007
James Patell is a 2007 winner of The Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize, presented by the Haas Center for Public Service. The prize honors a Stanford faculty member who "over and above the normal academic duties—engages and involves students in integrating academic scholarship with significant volunteer service to society."
Nonprofit Interns Celebrate SMIF's 25th Anniversary
01/10/2006
For 25 years, the Stanford Management Internship Fund (SMIF) has supplemented salaries for students working in relatively low-paying summer jobs for public and nonprofit institutions, allowing students with tuition bills to pay to earn salaries nearly as large as their peers in the for-profit world.
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10 years at a glance
Knowledge Creation
- 180+ cases created
- 8 publications on the evolution of emerging nonprofits (SPEN study)
- More than 38,000 Stanford Project on the Evolution of Nonprofits reports downloaded
- 45 faculty research/teaching projects supported
- 19 GSB faculty on average financially supported every year
Education
- More than 800,000 podcasts downloaded; 50% of listeners are international
- 12,000 circulation of Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR)
- 72% of SSIR readers share their copies with others
- 87% of SSIR readers rate the quality of writing as good or great
- 1,525 Executive Education participants from 59 countries
- 4.58 (out of 5.0) average rating for CSI Executive Education programs
- 5,644 conference attendees and more than 15,000 event/workshop attendees
- An average of 20% of MBA class earns a Public Management Certificate
Resources in Action
- 278 Alumni Consulting Team (ACT) projects completed
- More than $15.3 million in consulting estimated value delivered by ACT
- Of 182 Service Learning Trip participants, 69% of students reported that these trips greatly affected their understanding of how business skills can be applied toward solving social problems
- 240 summer internships focused on social or environmental impact
- More than 100 consultations to organizations and universities across the globe yearly
media contact
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the center in the news
- Mining and Metal A Closer Look at Business Education, September 2008
- Stanford Business School Goes Green Business Week MBA Blog September 12, 2008
- Taking Supply Chain Responsibility to the Next Level
Supply Chain Management Review, July 1, 2008 - Fresh Faces on Boards
The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 12, 2008
