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How CIOs Can Keep In Step With CEOs

We know there’s dissonance between corporate IT and the C-suite. New research, conducted with HBR, The Economist, CEB, and TNS Global, reveals that...

How Impact Sourcing is Creating Opportunity

An emerging set of business leaders has found a promising solution to both drive efficiency and tackle unemployment. Impact Sourcing is the growing segment...

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Talent scramble: 5 smart staffing tips for social enterprises

Social entrepreneurs don’t just need lots of investors and a jazzy business plan. They also need to invest in their workers. However, as social...

Transforming Customers and Businesses

Publisher and entrepreneur Tim O’Reilly offers insights and inspirations that have influenced the successful growth of his business. O’Reilly...

Lessons from a Failed Social Entrepreneur

During my first year at Harvard Business School, I decided to start a new business. I set up a team, choose a name, secured a URL, and Zoosa was born. My theory was that by leveraging the collective expertise of skilled professionals, we could have a significant impact on the social sector. Zoosa was intended to be a platform where volunteers shared their activities and...

How to pitch a business case – learn from these champions: 10 videos – 20 tips

We can work for months with corporates on an innovative business case but all that work is worth nothing if presented poorly. Therefore we spend quite...

Do entrepreneurs really learn? Or do they just tell us that they do?

This article examines the theory and evidence in support of entrepreneurial learning (EL), measured in terms of whether individuals have previously owned...