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Publication Spotlights Social Innovation
May, 2003
This spring the Business School will introduce a new scholarly publication—the
Stanford Social Innovation Review—designed to support the exchange of
ideas among public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The Review was
created in 2002 to chronicle and advance innovative and cross-sector solutions
to important social problems.
Some of the articles scheduled for the first issue include:
- Business School Professor David Baron on how companies respond to
challenges by activists. Baron's piece argues that when activists
miscalculate their strategic approach, their boycotts tend to falter and
fade away, squandering important resources and credibility. Similarly, when
companies mishandle their nonmarket strategies, they too may have to pay a
steep price.
- Robert Sutton of the Stanford School of Engineering on weird ideas that
spark innovation in nonprofits. To innovate, nonprofits must do things that
clash with common but misguided beliefs about effective ways to manage. The
article outlines some counterintuitive ideas to stimulate innovation.
- Christine Letts and Bill Ryan of the Hauser Center at Harvard University
on what recipients of high-engagement philanthropy really think.
High-engagement philanthropy, or what some call venture philanthropy,
provides nonprofits with much more than just technical assistance. According
to this study, many grantees found the support both effective and
satisfying. But there are pitfalls.
The Review is supported by the Business School's Center for Social
Innovation (CSI), which was founded in 1999 to foster innovative, effective, and
efficient solutions to social problems through research, teaching, and outreach.
CSI is co directed by Business School faculty members James A. Phills Jr. and
Dale T. Miller.
Academic editor for the Review is Stephen R. Barley, the Charles M.
Pigott Professor in the School of Engineering. Associate editors are Phills,
education Professor Walter Powell, and Sutton.
Subscriptions may be entered electronically through the publication's Web
site at www.ssireview.org.
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