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This is the first book to present innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline. It clearly explains and analyzes the challenges and opportunities of America's new entrepreneurial economy. Peter Drucker, the most influential and widely-read thinker and writer on modern organizations, gives us a superbly practical book that explains what established businesses, public service institutions, and new ventures have to know, have to learn, and have to do in today's economy and marketplace.

The Impact of Investing for Social Change and Profitability

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused. They have dictated how we build, eat, communicate, wage war, create art, travel, and worship. Some, such as stone, iron, and bronze, lend their names to the ages. Others, such as gold, silver, and diamond, contributed to the rise and fall of great empires.

Social innovation and entrepreneurship are rising forces in the world. As stakeholder capitalism takes root, and as the extent of systemic challenges becomes clear - from climate change to income inequality to food security to health care and beyond - more and more of the best and brightest will hear the calling to become innovators and entrepreneurs who develop and deploy solutions to the world's thorniest problems.

Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking reveals the craftier side of the hacker's repertoire - why hack into something when you could just ask for access? Undetectable by firewalls and antivirus software, social engineering relies on human fault to gain access to sensitive spaces; in this book, renowned expert Christopher Hadnagy explains the most commonly used techniques that fool even the most robust security personnel and reveals how these techniques have been used in the past.

Social Innovation, Inc. declares a new era where companies profit from social change. Leading corporations like GE, Wellpoint, Travelers and Wal-Mart are transforming social responsibility into social innovation and revolutionizing the way we think about the role of business in society. Based on four years of measuring the social strategies of America's leading corporations, Jason Saul lays out the five strategies for social innovation and offers a practical roadmap for how to get started.

The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most digestible book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI.

The Social Ideas podcast shares the impact of social innovation, its necessity and its capacity to challenge the status quo. Throughout this series, highly committed change makers in business, civil society, policy and academia will talk about their work, their ideas and their motivation to strive towards to a more equitable and sustainable world.The Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, acts as a platform for research and engagement with social innovators, academia and policy in UK and across the world.

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking does its part to prepare you against nefarious hackers. Now you can do your part by putting to good use the critical information this audiobook provides.

I podcasten Obruten mark – samtal om social innovation, kommer vi varannan vecka vända och vrida på vår tids komplexa samhällsutmaningar. Vi vill fokusera på och lyfta fram nya och etablerade lösningar på olika problem men också tänkbara vägar framåt. Olika personer, aktörer, frågor och perspektiv får utrymme under våra samtal, på såväl gräsrots- som systemnivå. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At Let's Talk Social Innovation, we believe in the power of transformative conversations to drive meaningful change in our communities. Our podcast serves as a platform for University of Pittsburgh members and community leaders to come together and discuss the inspiring work they are doing in the realm of social innovation. Join us on this transformative journey as we explore the frontiers of social innovation, share remarkable stories, and unlock the potential within each of us to create a more equitable and sustainable world.

From the cofounder of Square, an inspiring and entertaining account of what it means to be a true entrepreneur and what it takes to build a resilient, world-changing company In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist named Jim McKelvey lost a sale because he...

Innovation: Where Creativity and Technology Meet is a documentary about creativity, innovation, and technology. This audio program takes listeners on a worldwide journey to show how great achievers use creativity, innovation, and technology to thrive in a hyperconnected and hypercompetitive world. Some of the greatest innovators of our time, like Bill Gates, Salman Khan, and others, make listeners feel that they, too, can become great, and it is never too late to become the people they want to be.

Big change... starts with us. Hear the stories of Warrnambool's social change makers. It all began with an ethos... channelled from Fletcher Jones, an innovative tailor whose entrepreneurialism, innovation and community-mindedness has inspired a new generation. From the F Project, One Day Studios and Find Your Voice Collective and more... find out how these groups are creating disruption for good. Supported by the Fletcher Jones Family Foundations. Hosted by Kirsten Diprose Artwork by: House Cat

Tom Kelley, author of The Art of Innovation and the general manager of IDEO, the world-famous design firm, illuminates the strategies IDEO used to beat the devil's advocate and drive creativity throughout the organization.

The European Social Innovation Competition is a challenge prize run by the European Commission across all EU countries and Horizon Europe associated countries, calling for all Europeans to come up with solutions to the problems affecting our society. Launched in memory of social innovation pioneer Diogo Vasconcelos, a Portuguese leader who focused on fostering social innovation to address some of the great societal challenges of our time. Each year, three €50,000 prizes are awarded by the European Commission for the best socially innovative projects designed to change the world for the ...

Host Jim Kucher, Program Director of the Masters of Science in Health and Social Innovation at UMB’s Graduate School, spotlights local Baltimore area leaders who are delivering sustainable solutions to complex problems.

IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation.

Recognizing the power of the new and trying to understand and promote the conditions that make it possible, the Greeks were the first to write about innovation and even the first to record a word for forging something new. In short, the Greeks "invented" innovation itself - and they still have a great deal to teach us about it. How to Innovate is an engaging introduction to key ideas about - and examples of - innovation and creative thinking from ancient Greece. Armand D'Angour provides lively new translations of selections from Aristotle, Diodorus, and Athenaeus.

Uma série sobre empreendedores que estão criando soluções inovadoras para reduzir desigualdades e transformar vidas por meio do acesso a conhecimento e a serviços financeiros. Realização: Stanford Social Innovation Review Brasil Oferecimento: TD Impacta, uma iniciativa criada pelo Programa Tesouro Direto em parceria com a B3 e com execução da Artemisia.