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Al Gore Connects Climate Change Inaction to Political Dysfunction

At Stanford, Al Gore Connects Climate Change Inaction to Political Dysfunction

Speaking to a capacity crowd at Stanford's Memorial Auditorium, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore calls for passionate action to reverse the "degraded" state of democracy. 
[photo - Medical technology needs to solve a need and be cost-effective.]
Taking Healthcare Technology for a Test-Drive

A physician-turned-administrator at Kaiser Permanente discusses cost-effective innovations that improve care. 

[photo - David Dodson]
Project Healthy Children: Making Nutrition Their Business

Project Healthy Children works with governments and manufacturers to bring fortified foods to people at risk.

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Arts, Culture, and Religion
Save Your Teens, Save Your Marriage: Stanford's Brief Interventions

Short psychological interventions can change preconceptions, altering how people interact with their world. Effects are potent, cumulative and long lasting. Recent Stanford research reveals the benefits of brief interventions in both aggressive teens and antagonistic spouses.

Resource: News Article
Education
Inequality in Schools Threatens U.S. Prosperity, Stanford Scholars Say

Stanford experts are among the members of a commission issuing a new report on how to remove inequality in schools.

Resource: News Article
Environment
Going Negative: Stanford Scientists Explore New Ways to Remove Atmospheric CO2

Reducing carbon dioxide emissions may not be enough to curb global warming, say Stanford University scientists. The solution could require carbon-negative technologies that actually remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.

Resource: News Article
Arts, Culture, and Religion
Giving the Gift of Our Time to Others
[photo - Time]

In this quarter’s column, we explore giving the gift of our time to others. It’s a fact that most Americans are feeling more time-constrained than ever. With waking hours largely consumed by work, precious minutes remain for the daily list of to-dos, including exercise, cleaning, and socializing with friends and family. For some, time has become an even more valuable resource than money.

Resource: News Article
Education
Simple Interventions Bridge the Achievement Gap Between Latino and White Students, Stanford Researcher Finds

A study shows how the effects of "stereotype threat" can be overcome by assignments that foster a more supportive environment.

Resource: News Article
Environment
Going Negative: Stanford Scientists Explore New Ways to Remove Atmospheric CO2

Reducing carbon dioxide emissions may not be enough to curb global warming, say Stanford University scientists. The solution could require carbon-negative technologies that actually remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.

Resource: News Article
Education
Inequality in Schools Threatens U.S. Prosperity, Stanford Scholars Say

Stanford experts are among the members of a commission issuing a new report on how to remove inequality in schools.

Resource: News Article
Arts, Culture, and Religion
Save Your Teens, Save Your Marriage: Stanford's Brief Interventions

Short psychological interventions can change preconceptions, altering how people interact with their world. Effects are potent, cumulative and long lasting. Recent Stanford research reveals the benefits of brief interventions in both aggressive teens and antagonistic spouses.

Resource: News Article
Arts, Culture, and Religion
Giving the Gift of Our Time to Others
[photo - Time]

In this quarter’s column, we explore giving the gift of our time to others. It’s a fact that most Americans are feeling more time-constrained than ever. With waking hours largely consumed by work, precious minutes remain for the daily list of to-dos, including exercise, cleaning, and socializing with friends and family. For some, time has become an even more valuable resource than money.

Resource: News Article
Education
Simple Interventions Bridge the Achievement Gap Between Latino and White Students, Stanford Researcher Finds

A study shows how the effects of "stereotype threat" can be overcome by assignments that foster a more supportive environment.

Resource: News Article
Perspectives from the Field
Cover Image: Fall 2011
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2011

Two venture capitalists and an entrepreneur discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators confront as they seek to improve health care.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Scaling Play
Cover Image: Fall 2011
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2011

KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play by Darell Hammond

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Nonprofit Management, Social Entrepreneurship
Too Good to Fail
Cover Image: Fall 2011
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2011

In August 2010 the US government closed ShoreBank, one of the country’s leading social enterprises. Why did ShoreBank fail? And what lessons can be learned from its 37-year record of innovation?

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Opportunities in Mobile Health
Cover Image: Fall 2011
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2011

The United States and other industrialized countries can learn from experiments in the developing world that use the humble cell phone as a platform for innovation.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Philanthropy, Responsible Investing
Investing for the Safety Net
Cover Image: Fall 2011
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Fall 2011

Technologies that reduce costs and improve care for the underserved are often the most difficult to scale up. But a handful of strategies could turn things around.

Resource: Stanford Social Innovation Review Article
Moving Markets

Philanthropic and social capital markets are emerging, but they need issuers, investors and intermediaries to function. There is a range of activity and structure on both sides-–from nonprofit organizations to social businesses on the sell side and donors to investors on the buy side. Put together the full spectrum and you get nonprofits and grants on one end and social businesses and investors at the other end. Where it gets tricky is in the calculation of the social or environmental return. How to calculate the extent of these impacts is a thorny problem no matter where on the financial spectrum you participate.

Resource: Blog Post
Nonprofit Management
A Retrospective on Information Technology From Someone Who Should Know

An interview with Gavin Glabaugh, long-time IT guru at the Charles Stuart Mott Foundation, gives incite on where nonprofits have been and where we’re going in terms of using technology.

Resource: Blog Post
Nonprofit Management
Foundations Can Be Smarter Investors

Foundations can do much more to address the economic crisis and the human toll it is taking. Instead of hoarding their assets so they can perpetuate their wealth and their power, foundation boards should be voting to pay out more in assets and better fulfilling their governance role by taking a more active role as shareholders. Foundations should be putting all their assets, including those they pay out and those they invest in the capital markets, to more productive use to address the critical and escalating social and global problems we face.

Resource: Blog Post
Nonprofit Management
Data Mining from The Collaboration Prize Applicants

The Collaboration Prize competition entries prove a rich resource for non-profit mergers. A grant of $250,000 will be shared between the co-winners: The Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas and the YMCA and JCC of Greater Toledo. But they were not the only winners in this competition; the rest of us now get to mine the wonderful data that remains from the 644 applications submitted to the Lodestar Foundation for the competition.

Resource: Blog Post
Arts, Culture, and Religion, Nonprofit Management
Generation Y and the Perils of Milli Vanilli Leadership

Generation Y leaders benefit from acting their age. The key to successful next generation leadership is to be who you are, not what you think an “official” nonprofit leader looks like. Craft your own brand of leadership, and others will see you as an authentic person they can follow and trust.

 

 

Resource: Blog Post
Video/Audio : All | Audio | Video
Education, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing
The Civic Impact of Youth Volunteerism
[photo - Photo: Doug McAdam]

How are engaged citizens made? In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Stanford sociology professor Doug McAdam argues that youth volunteering does not directly result in active citizens or a robust civil society. Instead, the responses to youth activism are varied and driven by historical and cultural context.

Resource: Audio
Healthcare, Nonprofit Management
Solar Power in a Suitcase
[photo - Photo: Aronson and Stachel]
What good is new energy technology if it can't be transported to the regions where it is most needed? In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman talks with Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson, co-founders of WE CARE Solar, about the international journey that led them to create one of the world's most portable solar energy systems. As The Tech Awards 2011 laureates of the Nokia Health Award, these two innovators work to bring reliable power to health care facilities all over the world.
Resource: Audio
Environment, Nonprofit Management
Sustainable Water Treatment
[photo - Picture: Daniel Smith]
How can a young nonprofit organization make a tangible improvement in people's health through clean water using only the power of gravity? This was the challenge for Daniel Smith and the AguaClara team when they began work to introduce community-level drinking water treatment plants in Honduras. In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman learns from the 2011 Intel Environment Award winners about the importance of using local resources and experts to encourage horizontal learning.
Resource: Audio
Nonprofit Management
Leveraging Online Collaboration
[photo - Dean Jansen]

How can nonprofit and crowdsourcing experts collaborate to make media more accessible? In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman talks to Dean Jansen, co-Founder of Universal Subtitles, a volunteer platform for doing collaborative subtitling and translation of videos. As the winner of The Tech Awards 2011 Katherine M. Swanson Equality Award, Jansen discussed Universal Subtitles' current challenges and future potential in leveraging internet volunteerism.

Resource: Audio
Nonprofit Management
Partnering for Scale and Impact
[photo - Melissa Bradley]

Melissa Bradley, CEO of Tides, explores how partnerships between for-profit and nonprofit organizations--and everything in between--can increase scale and impact. In this audio lecture, recorded at the Stanford Social Innovation Review's 2011 Nonprofit Management Institute, Bradley discusses the current landscape of the social sector, and what scale and impact really mean. She also shares case studies of successful partnerships and the "top ten" lessons we can draw from collaborations.

Resource: Audio
Education, Healthcare
Reengineering Aid: Sir Richard Feachem
[Video-Reengineering Aid: Sir Richard Feachem ]

What impact has aid had on health in developing countries? Has it had an impact?

Resource: Video
Healthcare
Using Technology to Redesign Delivery of Care: Andrew Thompson
[Video-Using Technology to Redesign Delivery of Care: Andrew Thompson ]

Andrew Thompson, CEO of Proteus Biomedical, reveals how technology can be used to make healthcare accessible to everyone in the world at the 2011 GSB Healthcare Summit.

Resource: Video
Healthcare
Changing Behaviors and Changing Policies: Sheena Iyengar
[Video-Changing Behaviors and Changing Policies: Sheena Iyengar]

At the 2011 GSB Healthcare Summit, Sheena Iyengar, Professor of Business at Columbia University's Business School, shared her research on why people make the choices they do.

Resource: Video
Education, Government, Leadership
GSB Black Business Student Association Award Winner Jim Shelton
[Video-GSB Black Business Student Association Award Winner Jim Shelton]

James H. Shelton of the Office of Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education won the prestigious Tapesty Award for 2011.

Resource: Video
Healthcare
Health Innovation Challenges in India and Africa
[Video-Health Innovation Challenges in India and Africa]

How can health care providers give innovative care in low resource settings?

Resource: Video
Environment
James Sweeney: A Sustainable Energy System
[Video-James Sweeney: A Sustainable Energy System]

James Sweeney, director of Stanford's Precourt Energy Efficiency Center, discusses green cities at a Stanford GSB conference.

Resource: Video
Environment
Environmental Sustainability Through Recycling
[photo - Photo: Kate White]

Messaging that makes meanings easier to understand leads people to recycle more. That's the conclusion of a study reported on by Canadian Scholar Kate White in this University podcast. White says that negative messages about the dangers of not recycling work best when paired with concrete action steps, showing how to recycle. White spoke at the Stanford Prosocial Briefing.

Resource: Audio
Education
Improving Educational Achievement for Minorities
[photo - Photo: Greg Walton]
When minority students are given subtle attitude-changing strategies to encourage a sense of belonging, their GPA goes up, the achievement gap goes down, and they report better health and well-being. That was the conclusion of a study co-led by Greg Walton and discussed in this university podcast. The results suggest that social belonging is a psychological lever where targeted intervention can have broad consequences that lessen inequalities in achievement and health. Walton spoke at the Stanford Prosocial Briefing.
Resource: Audio
Environment
Food, Water, and Energy
[photo - Photo: Ann Bartuska]
Our planet will reach nine billion people by 2050. Are we anywhere near ready to feed that many people? In this audio lecture, Dr. Ann Bartuska of the U.S. Department of Agriculture discussed the need to connect food, water, and energy technologies to address our need for sustainable agriculture. Dr. Bartuska spoke as part of the panel "Framing the Challenges: How Can Connection Technologies Support Sustainable Development?" at the USRio+2.0 Conference at Stanford University.
Resource: Audio
Economic Development, Social Entrepreneurship
Mobile and Branchless Banking
[photo - Abhishek Sinha]

In a country that lacks formal financial services but contains over half a billion cell phone users, two brothers saw a unique opportunity. In this audio interview, Sheela Sethuraman speaks with Abhishek Sinha, co-founder of Eko India Financial Services, about their efforts to lower the barriers for end-consumers in India. As The Tech Awards 2011 laureates of the Flextronics Economic Development Award, Sinha discusses Eko India's breakthrough developments in branchless banking.

Resource: Audio
Case Studies : All | Academic Cases
Nonprofit Management
Breaking New Ground: Using the Internet to Scale

Commissioned by KaBOOM! and authored by Katherine Fulton and alumna Heather McLeod Grant of the Monitor Institute, this case study looks at the challenges KaBOOM! faced and lessons the organization learned while pioneering an online strategy to scale its impact. This strategy involves giving away the nonprofit model online for free to empower others to act on KaBoom's behalf.

Resource: Practitioner Case
Economic Development, Nonprofit Management
Rural Development Institute (A): Should It Tackle the Problem of the Landless Poor in India?
[photo - William F. Meehan III]

The Rural Development Institute was established in the 1970s to alleviate poverty by securing land rights for the world’s rural poor. The organization was considering whether to enter India to work for land reform.

Resource: Academic Case
Economic Development, Nonprofit Management
Rural Development Institute (B): Success in India
[photo - William F. Meehan III]

In 2000, the Rural Development Institute entered India. The organization had to modify its model to address the unique aspects of the situation in that country.

Resource: Academic Case
Corporate Social Responsibility
SK-II China: Managing Public Relations
[photo - John Roberts]

Procter & Gamble’s high-end skincare brand in China had the potential to be a star. However, after two major public relations debacles, P&G had to rebuild the brand image and regain consumers’ trust.

Resource: Academic Case
Economic Development, Social Entrepreneurship
Unitus (A): Microfinance 2.0 - Reinventing and Industry
[photo - James A. Phills]

Unitus focuses on accelerating the growth of the microfinance industry. This first case describes the Unitus business model for microfinance and whether or not the company should expand the capital it provides to partners through a debt or equity fund.

Resource: Academic Case
Economic Development, Social Entrepreneurship
Unitus (B): Microfinance 2.0 - Reinventing an Industry
[photo - James A. Phills]

Unitus focuses on accelerating the growth of the microfinance industry. While case A examined Unitus options to expand the capital it provides to partners, this second case reveals the decisions Unitus leaders made.

Resource: Academic Case
Arts, Culture, and Religion, Nonprofit Management
Multimedia Case
Circus Oz
[photo - James A. Phills]

Circus Oz, Australia’s premier, international circus, was exploring offering the new development officer position a higher-than-normal salary. The case and its companion videocase cover the organization’s dilemmas around this, and the situation’s resolution.

Resource: Academic Case
Corporate Social Responsibility
10b5-1 Plans: Mortgaging a Defense Against Insider Trading
[photo - David F. Larcker]

Two executives came under fire for selling a significant amount of Midway stock just weeks before a precipitous decline in the company’s share price. Regulators had to decide whether they had carried out a sophisticated form of illegal insider trading.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment
A Technical Note on Ethanol as a Motor Fuel
[photo - Erica L. Plambeck]

This case provides background on the technology, economic forces, and nonmarket issues that affect ethanol’s supply, distribution, and demand. It also discusses emerging innovations.

Resource: Academic Case
Healthcare
Challenges in Renal Care
[photo - Stefanos Zenios]

In 2006, all major U.S. dialysis providers faced ever-diminishing margins and struggled to understand what lay ahead. Change was imminent as Medicare and Medicaid altered the reimbursement landscape, and as private payers became more restrictive.

Resource: Academic Case
Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment
Esquel Group: Transforming Into A Vertically Integrated, Service-Oriented, Leading Manufacturer Of Quality Cotton

Esquel Group, one of the world’s leading producers of premium cotton shirts, offered innovative products and services and was devoted to protecting the environment in areas in which it operated. The case describes the company’s culture and strategy.

Resource: Academic Case
Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment
Disclosure Dilemma: Financial Reporting of Contingent and Environmental Liabilities
[photo - Alan D. Jagolinzer]

The case discusses U.S. and international accounting guidance regarding the disclosure of contingent and environmental liabilities.

Resource: Academic Case
Economic Development, Nonprofit Management
Endeavor
[photo - Garth Saloner]

Endeavor selects promising entrepreneurs and helps them develop and grow their businesses through mentorship and guidance. In 2007, founder and CEO Linda Rottenberg looked at the organization's expansion strategy.

Resource: Academic Case
Environment
Fuel Economy Standards 2007
[photo - David P. Baron ]

In 2007, Congress was discussing a 40 percent increase in required fuel efficiency. The automobile industry had a choice to fight the ruling., but instead decided to focus on influencing the details of the legislation.

Resource: Academic Case
Economic Development
Kiva
[photo - Garth Saloner]

By 2007, Kiva had gone through a rapid growth phase. The case recounts the debut of the first online person-to-person microfinance organization and looks at the founders' plan for future development.

Resource: Academic Case
Human Rights
Monitoring Factories Around the Globe: The Fair Labor Association and the Worker Rights Consortium
[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.

Resource: Academic Case
Research Papers : All
Health Care
The Role of Costs In Comparative Effectiveness Research

When Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act one year later, it limited the role of cost analysis in the work sponsored by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Despite this restriction, cost-effectiveness analysis meets important needs and is likely to play a larger role in the future.

Resource: Research Paper
Corporate Social Responsibility
Who's with Me? False Consensus, Brokerage, and Ethical Decision Making in Organizations

Organization members overestimate the degree to which others share their views on ethical matters. That is, a high level of "betweenness centrality" increases an individual's estimates of agreement with others on ethical issues beyond what is warranted by any actual increase in agreement.

Resource: Research Paper
Government
Does informative media commentary reduce politicians' incentives to pander?

Elections sometimes give policy makers incentives to pander, i.e., to implement a policy that voters think is in their best interest, even though the policy maker knows that a different policy is actually better for the voters. Media commentary affects voters' tendency to apply an asymmetric burden of proof to the incumbent, based on whether she pursues popular or unpopular policies. 



 





  

  
  

                
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Reducing the Gender Achievement Gap in College Science: A Classroom Study of Values Affirmation

  

  
  

                



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Graduate School of Business Professor Geoffrey Cohen and co-authors at the University of Colorado at Boulder present research on the effectiveness of values affirmation in reducing the gender achievement gap. Their findings suggest a psychological intervention may be a useful way to address the gender gap in science performance.



  

  
  

                
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Education, Healthcare

  

  
  

                
Who Fears the HPV Vaccine, Who Doesn't, and Why? An Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Cultural Cognition

  

  
  

                



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Graduate School of Business Professor Geoffrey Cohen and co-authors used the dispute over the HPV vaccine to test the cultural cognition thesis, which holds that people evaluate risk based on their contested beliefs about the good society. They found that disagreement about the risks of the vaccine was generated through two principal means, biased assimilation and the credibility heuristic.



  

  
  

                
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Education

  

  
  

                

The Economics of Higher Education: GSBGEN 348

  

  
  

                



  

  

  
  

                
 


This course explores topics such as the value of college and graduate degrees and the utilization of highly educated graduates. It also looks at issues such as faculty labor markets, careers, and workload; costs, pricing, and discounting of education; merit aid; access to higher education; sponsored research; academic medical centers; and technology and productivity.



  

  
  

                
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Environment

  

  
  

                

Environmental Entrepreneurship: GSBGEN 339

  

  
  

                



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Markets have tremendous potential for solving environmental problems. Through case analysis, guest speakers, and the creation of business plans in environmental entrepreneurship, students will learn to apply core business principles of finance, marketing, economics, operations, accounting, and more to the provision of environmental goods and services. 



  

  
  

                
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Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

  

  
  

                

Health Care Technology: From Innovators to Providers to Patients: GSBGEN 351

  

  
  

                



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This course examines health care businesses and how they use technology (primarily biotechnology, medical technology, and information technology) to improve patient outcomes and manage costs. Through case studies, students gain an in-depth understanding of how new technologies get developed and commercialized in health care, and of how the whole health care value chain adapts to new technologies.



  

  
  

                
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Human Rights

  

  
  

                

Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Women: STRAMGT 508

  

  
  

                



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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.



  

  
  

                
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Healthcare

  

  
  

                

Analysis of Costs, Risks & Benefits of Health Care: MGTECON 332

  

  
  

                



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This course examines the application of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, along with other evaluation techniques, to products and services such as medical care, whose "output" is difficult to measure. It critically reviews studies that apply cost analysis techniques to specific clinical problems. 



  

  
  

                
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Healthcare, Social Entrepreneurship

  

  
  

                
  Jane Chen (MBA '08) 


  

  
  

                



              [photo - Jane Chen (MBA '08)]       

  

  
  

                
 


Jane Chen's passion for helping others has taken her on an incredible journey from doing social work in China to founding Embrace, a company that sells premature infant incubators.



  

  
  

                
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Leadership, Philanthropy, Responsible Investing, Social Entrepreneurship

  

  
  

                
  Jacqueline Novogratz (MBA '91) 


  

  
  

                



              [photo - Jacqueline Novogratz]       

  

  
  

                
 


In turbulent times like ours, we need “hard-edged hope,” says Jacqueline Novogratz, the much-celebrated founder of the Acumen Fund. Affirming that the world is indeed a better place now than it was 40 years ago, she traces her own journey from a childhood witnessing racial inequities all around her in Detroit to a career leading the field of social impact investing.



  

  
  

                
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Government

  

  
  

                
  California Redistricting Panel Calls on Citizens Like Cynthia Dai, MBA '93 


  

  
  

                



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Cynthia Dai, MBA '93, joins panel redrawing districts for state government, Congress.



  

  
  

                
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  Louis Boorstin (MBA '87) 


  

  
  

                



              [photo - Louis Boorstin]       

  

  
  

                
 


Louis Boorstin, current Deputy Director of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reflects on lessons learned throughout his 15-year history tackling the global sanitation crisis.



  

  
  

                
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Environment, Social Entrepreneurship

  

  
  

                
  Lee Zimmerman and Brian Anderluh (MBA '94) 


  

  
  

                



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As co-owners of Evergreen Lodge in Yosemite, a social enterprise that combines environmental stewardship and socially-minded employment strategies, Lee Zimmerman and Brian Anderluh discuss keys and barriers to success, potential for scale, and opportunities for the future.



  

  
  

                
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Economic Development

  

  
  

                



 Making the Business Case for Africa






 


  

  
  

                



         
              

  

  
  

                
    
  
      


  

  
  

                
 


The for-profit sector steps up to play its role in Africa's economic development.



  

  
  

                

  

  
  

                
  

  

  
  

                
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 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.



  

  
  

                

  

  
  

                
  

  

  
  

                
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Environment

  

  
  

                



 Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Perspectives from California






 


  

  
  

                


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California, the ninth largest economy in the world, recently launched a new carbon cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, leads this program that could provide a model to support other regional or national efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.



  

  
  

                

  

  
  

                
  

  

  
  

                
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Environment

  

  
  

                



 US-wide Carbon Policy: Two MBAs' Perspectives






 


  

  
  

                


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As part of the annual Conradin Von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture on the Environment, Mike Volpe, MBA '13, and Jake Saper, MBA '14, lay out an argument for a US-wide carbon policy.



  

  
  

                

  

  
  

                
  

  

  
  

                
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 Streamlining An "Expensive Democracy"






 


  

  
  

                



         
              

  

  
  

                
    
  
      


  

  
  

                
 


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



  

  
  

                

  

  
  

                
  

  

  
  

                
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