By The Institute for Social Innovation | January 26, 2018
As part of Emily and Cheryl’s Leading for Social Value course last spring, students were asked to write closing blogs with reflections from the seven weeks of the course. This post from Calliope Desenberg, MBA’18 is the fourth in this series of posts we’ll be sharing periodically. Moving from a philanthropy focused corporate social responsibility…
By The Institute for Social Innovation | January 16, 2018
By Ken Freitas MBA’87, Principal at Freitas & Associates, Executive in Residence at Babson College, and Senior Fellow in Social Innovation at The Lewis Institute. The memo was written by Jeff Swartz, CEO of the Timberland Company and my boss at the time. It was to me and the team working to launch a new…
By The Institute for Social Innovation | June 6, 2017
Earlier this year, Senior Fellows in Social Innovation Bradley Googins and Philip Mirvis released a white paper for The Conference Board looking at the growing field of Corporate Social Innovation (CSI). This white paper, The New Business of Business: Innovating for a Better World, identifies three interlocking challenges businesses face today: “shareholder demands for growth,…