Startups and Entrepreneurship
- How to Build a Strategic Narrative
- Who it’s from: Mark Bonchek via Harvard Business Review
- What it is: A strategy for building your organization’s narrative in a way that truly tells the story of what you do and simultaneously engages consumers in a positive way.
- Why we like it: Every startup struggles with it. Many established businesses rewrite it. It’s the narrative. Why and how you do what you do. Let HBR help!
Social Consciousness
- Why Impact Investing Does Not Mean Sacrificing Returns
- Who it’s from: [email protected]
- What it is: A conversation about the connection between financial returns and social change.
- Why we like it: This talk argues that making socially conscious investments doesn’t necessarily mean sacrificing financial returns. We see this to be true as well!
Social Enterprise
- Sonal Shah and Lily Cole consider potential impact of social enterprise
- Who it’s from: Lee Mannion via Pioneers Post
- What it is: Simply, an honest conversation about social enterprise!
- Why we like it: This conversation looks at so many different aspects of social enterprise – challenges, the future, and impact.
Solutions to Poverty
- 7 TED Talks to Ignite Your Inner Changemaker
- Who it’s from: Jay Boolkin from Social Good Stuff
- What it is: A collection of TED talks that inspire us to take a look at business differently.
- Why we like it: These talks collectively make the case to let business solve poverty! This is what we are all about.
Sustainable Development
- The Building Blocks of Sustainable Development
- Who it’s from: George Rosenfeld of HuffPost Impact
- What it is: A summary of observations from the UN Youth Assembly.
- Why we like it: Though we advocate a smaller, grassroots apprpoach social development, broad goals remain the same!