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Get Ready to Be a Changemaker

Ashoka founder and CEO Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich, who heads Ashoka's worldwide efforts to forge profitable alliances between private companies and citizen-sector organizations, have just submitted a jointly authored blog post to the Harvard Business Reviews "The Conversation" blogs section...

The People Want Business with a Purpose (Will Social Intrapreneurs Deliver?)

More U.S. consumers now believe that individuals, not the government, are responsible for tackling society's problems, according to the global 2012 Edelman goodpurpose® Study. It's the the first time in the study's five-year history that a country's respondents have looked to everyday innovators...

Ashoka Launches Scandinavian Office, with Maja Frankel at Helm

Since her appointment as director of Ashoka’s new Scandinavia office, Maja Frankel’s schedule has been a flurry of travel throughout Northern Europe. Last week, it was Norway; this week, Denmark; next week, back to her home base in Stockholm, Sweden, where the new office is located. In Copenhagen...

A new roadmap for solving the world-wide shortage of affordable housing

Two global trends—explosive population growth and mass urban migration—mean that millions of individuals worldwide, in virtually every country, now inhabit sprawling slums. Beginning in 2008, people living in cities outnumbered people on rural land for the first time in human history. Already about...

Q&A with IBM’s Tony Tenicela: Empathy, Diversity, and the Keys to Corporate Turnaround

“In today's world, where everyone is so interconnected and interdependent, it is simply essential that we work for each other's success. If we're going to solve the biggest, thorniest, and most widespread problems in business and society, we have to innovate in ways that truly matter.” —Samuel...

Stand Up to the Status Quo: Social Entrepreneurship in Europe with Europ Assistance

Since 2010, the Europ Assistance Group (EA) has made social entrepreneurship its leading commitment in the Corporate Social Responsibility field. Today, 10 Group companies are actively involved in selecting and supporting top social innovators in Europe, in partnership with Ashoka France, to advance...