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Beyond the Poverty Line
Excerpted from the Social Innovation Review, published by Stanford University By Rourke L. O’Brien & David S. Pedulla Fall 2010 View the entire article On July 13, 2008, New York City’s poverty...
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Waiting for Superman: Don’t Look for Easy Answers Educators Say
STANFORD UNIVERSITY – Education spending in America has more than doubled in the last four decades – yet math and reading scores have flat-lined. What’s the remedy? A panel of educators at Stanford...
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Social Media for Social Change
One email is all it took for Chaitali Nadig to try saving a life. The message advertised an upcoming bone marrow drive to benefit Samir Pendse, an 18-year-old battling relapsed leukemia. A marrow...
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Program Helps Women in Ghana Improve Their Cottage Industry
Stanford Graduate School of Business — Announced in June 2009, the Shea Value Chain Reinforcement Initiative uses microfinance, education, and technology to improve the incomes and living conditions of...
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Desegregating Advanced High School Placement Courses
From Stanford Business magazine, Winter, 2011 STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – A pair of 16-year-old best friends is enrolling in classes at Interlake High School in Bellevue, Wash., in the late...
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Acumen Fund Raises Kenya’s Sanitation Expectations
From Stanford Business magazine STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – Five years ago, public toilets in Naitobi, Kenya, were neither sanitary nor safe. “These toilets were places where gangs...
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Book Recommendations From Stanford MBA Classrooms
From Stanford Business magazine STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – Here are some of the books and software business school faculty used in Autumn 2010 courses and also a brief explanation of why...
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Nonprofits Must Change as Old Charitable Funding Models Decline
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —It’s rare for an organization to be around 100 years or more. Some research says there’s a 1 in 10,000 chance. A handful of the United States’ well-known...
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Interdisciplinary Approach Helps Graduate Fellows Tackle Social,...
BY KATHLEEN J. SULLIVAN To interview farmers in Nepal, Cecilia Mo traveled along roads carved into the sides of mountains and often walked for hours to get from one terraced field to another. Hoping to...
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Bridge-Builder Sowerwine Shows How It’s Done
Using local contractors, EcoSystems, a company founded by Haydi and David Sowerwine, MBA ’72, has built more than 30 pulley-operated cable bridges spanning river canyons in rural Nepal. A video...
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It’s Not About Tea
From the Stanford Social Innovation Review Blog By Kevin Starr I’ve spent a lot of time in Afghanistan and the mountains of northern Pakistan, so family and friends have been asking me what I think of...
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Costa Rica Strives for a High Tech Future Says President Chinchilla
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Costa Rica is striving to be a mecca for ecotourism as well as high-technology business, the nation’s president, Laura Chinchilla, told a Stanford Graduate School...
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Young Firm Saves Babies’ Lives
STANFORD GRADUATES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – Twenty million low-birth weight babies are born each year and four million of them die within their first month of life. But Stanford Graduate School of Business...
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Taking on the Public Education Challenge
Stanford economist Eric Hanushek has said that if U.S. schools could become as good as those in Finland, our gross domestic product would increase six-fold. Education, however, is not often at the top...
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Stanford Graduate School of Business Launches Institute to Alleviate Poverty...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -The Stanford Graduate School of Business has established the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies with a $150 million gift from Dorothy and...
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